New Position on the Planning for Nature Project: Knowledge Exchange Associate

Are you passionate about communicating research, engaging policymakers, and ensuring that research contributes to solving real-world problems? Come and join our small but highly engaged team exploring how spatial planning can better address the biodiversity crisis. We are recruiting a Knowledge Exchange Associate for the Planning for Nature project, to help develop our research project and its reach into professional, policymaker, and community groups. The two year, part time post starts from September 2025. 

This role offers an outstanding opportunity to engage with a wide variety of policy makers, professionals and communities concerned about urbanisation and the environment in the UK. Drawing on your research and impact experience, you will assist in developing links with project partners, preparing materials that will assist policy makers, practitioners and communities, and ensuring that the project’s research findings are widely disseminated and of use to the wide-range of groups active in this area.

You will be supported to develop innovative ways of communicating research findings, engaging with a diversity of stakeholders, and developing persuasive and useful materials for a range of audiences. Becoming part of our interdisciplinary project team, you will play a pivotal and valuable role in ensuring that this major new project generates knowledge and understanding that is of use to the range of organisations, groups and individuals who are seeking to ensure that urban development decisions lead to a better outcome for nature.  

Further details, including how to apply, are here: https://jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research-Associate-Knowledge-Exchange-%28Planning-for-Nature%29/1066-en_GB 

Closing date: 3rd July 2025

Enquiries - please contact Malcolm Tait (m.tait@sheffield.ac.uk)