All Things Urban

The Urban95 Academy launched in January 2022 and has delivered the programme to 263 cities including 93 Mayors & Deputy Mayors from 71 countries across seven cohorts. Taking part in the Urban95 Academy connects you to a growing network of engaged and motivated urban practitioners around the world, who are working to improve the lives of young children and caregivers in their cities. [Find out more on our website](https://urban95academy.org/). [The London School of Economics and Political Science](https://www.lse.ac.uk/) is a social science university based in central London with a global reach. Ranked first in Europe and second in the world for social sciences and management in the QS subject rankings 2021. Since 1895 the LSE has been pioneering social science research, challenging existing ways of thinking, and seeking to understand the causes of things in order to transform them. [LSE Cities](https://www.lse.ac.uk/cities) is an international centre that investigates the complexities of the contemporary city. It carries out research, graduate and executive education, outreach and advisory activities in London and abroad. Extending LSE’s century-old commitment to the understanding of urban society, LSE Cities investigates how complex urban systems are responding to the pressures of growth, change and globalisation with new infrastructures of design and governance that both complement and threaten social equity and environmental sustainability. [The Van Leer Foundation](https://vanleerfoundation.org/) is an independent Dutch organisation working globally to foster inclusive societies where all children and communities can flourish. The Foundation brings together people with different perspectives and supports them to achieve large-scale impact. Their support involves a unique combination of funding, networks, executive education, technical assistance and knowledge.

Applications are invited for the position of Research Officer (British Academy Urban Infrastructures of Well-Being), to assist Professor Gareth Jones and Dr Mara Nogueira, at the Latin America and Caribbean Centre, with The British Academy-funded project, ‘Engineering food: infrastructure exclusion and ‘last mile’ delivery in Brazilian favelas’. The project is a collaboration with Insper in São Paulo and forms part of The British Academy Urban Infrastructures of Well-Being programme. The post-holder will develop the qualitative research in São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, including interviews and participant observation with favela residents, interviews with policy-makers, private companies and think-tanks, and undertake knowledge exchange through peer review papers, workshop and conference presentations, blogs and social media. The Research Officer is expected to have completed a PhD in Anthropology, Sociology or Geography, or another related social science, proven methodological skills (qualitative) which demonstrate the capacity to conduct original and rigorous research and familiarity with research about urban issues in Brazil Fluency in Brazilian Portuguese is essential.

This job is available for international candidates.