The AFRI-CAN project (Lead PI Professor Rob Marchant, University of York) explores the interlinked interactions of human systems and mountain ecosystems understood as mountain socioecological systems by combining state-of-the-art modelling, interdisciplinary insights and valuation assessments to co-produce pathways for sustainable mountain futures. Focussed on six contrasting East African mountain settings, the AFRI-CAN project aims to investigate how communities interact with nature, how ecosystems evolve, and which pathways could support sustainable and resilient mountain futures. We are looking for a highly motivated applicant to join the project and contribute to Work Package 1. The selected applicant will be co-supervised by Professor Paul Lane and Dr Stefania Merlo with additional input from other members of the Department and McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, and external researchers that are part of the AFRI-CAN project, in particular Dr Daryl Stump, at the University of York. The successful applicant’s research will focus on developing detailed historical land-use and land cover map of landscape change across the mountain study sites over the past 6,000 years through the integration of archaeobotanical, faunal and material culture data and historical maps with a particular focus on forestry and forest management.

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