Senior Research Officer: Local policy networks, University

We are looking for a postdoc who has experience with policy networks, community networks, or inter-organisational networks.

This is a research position (fixed term until the end of 2027) in the £3m ARISE project (“Advancing Resilience and Innovation for a Sustainable Environment”) at the University of Essex, co-supervised by Prof Gina Reinhardt (University of Essex) and Prof Philip Leifeld (University of Manchester).

The postdoc will collect local policy network data in coastal communities in the east of England using interviews and other means and then analyse the resulting networks using both exploratory and statistical approaches.

The job will start approximately in April 2026. The Final date to receive applications is 1 February 2026.