We are seeking a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow – Peatland Fire, Palaeoecology and Ecological Resilience to join a Leverhulme Trust-funded project investigating how UK peatlands have responded to fire, climate and land-use change over the last 5000 years. Peatlands are globally important carbon stores, but increasing fire risk under climate change, combined with long histories of land-use and degradation, threatens their ecological resilience and ability to store carbon. This interdisciplinary project will provide new evidence for how peatlands respond to fire over timescales beyond the observational record, helping to identify the conditions under which peatlands recover, change state or approach ecological tipping points. The project brings together palaeoecology, environmental archaeology, analytical chemistry, remote sensing and ecological modelling. Research focuses on three contrasting UK peatscapes: Dartmoor, the Peak District and the Flow Country. We welcome applications from researchers with expertise in palaeoecology, palynology, charcoal analysis, palaeoclimatology, FTIR spectroscopy, peatland science, geography, or related environmental sciences, particularly those interested in developing interdisciplinary approaches to understanding ecosystem resilience.

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