We are pleased to receive applications for other interns at any time
Our next interns include Igielska Bogumila, Sibel Yildrim, and John Owens.
We are currently recruiting for the next internships and are pleased to receive applications for this throughout the year. We will require full references for this. The work is interesting and we are able to offer interns a unique experience at the apex of policy, academia, campaigning and business with very high level contacts indeed in all these areas and we believe we have one of the largest green and environmental networks in the world.
We do require full participation and contribution from our interns and a report of the experience is currently being prepared by our current intern for your guidance and this will be posted on the website, please watch this space for the details. If you are interested please email us as soon as possible greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com. We require you to write a report about your experience at the end, and for your university or college, with whom we will liase. We are keen to have a mixture of UK and students from abroad, and to have multidisciplinary vision from our learners. Our first intern is active in agronomy and economics.
We also do regularly have a number of fascinating paid, part time and contractor positions as and when required- do ask for details if you are interested.
We also act as a jobs notice board for economics and for environmental and for green jobs as well, although we cannot recommend jobs or act as a broker for this service we are pleased to post jobs that we hear about ( with no obligation at all). We cannot accept any liability for the outcome of any of those positions, if they are not within the institute itself, this notice board is for information only but we hope you will find it useful.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLACEMENT FELLOWSHIPS IN GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS AND DEVOLVED ADMINISTRATIONS As part of its Placement Fellowship Scheme the ESRC welcomes applications from academics interested in working within the National Audit Office (NAO). The Scheme encourages social science researchers to spend time within a partner organisation to undertake policy-relevant research and to develop the research skills of partner employees. The placement will be jointly funded by the ESRC and the NAO while the Fellow will remain employed by his/her institution. Fellowships can be for between three and 12 months duration with a minimum of 50% of the Fellows time being spent within the partner organisation. The project areas and the length of the Fellowship are flexible. The NAO is Central Government's external auditor and its work includes reporting to Parliament on the value for money achieved by the bodies it audits. The NAO's work saves the taxpayers millions of pounds every year. The Cross-Government and Efficiency Centre value for money team examines subjects as diverse as risk; IT procurement; call centres; child obesity; and diversity. The team aims to contribute to improvements in Government VFM by identifying systematic shortcomings and gaps in Government activity (for example, the lack of reliable information across many fronts), highlighting good practice, and influencing key officials to make change. The VFM Team is looking for a researcher to examine its approaches to gathering and analysing evidence and to assist in enlarging its repertoire of methods used in VFM work. The project should last for approximately six months primarily in the NAO offices in Victoria but travel to other organisations will be necessary. They are looking for a social research specialist with expertise in a broad range of quantitative and qualitative methods who could identify - through their own knowledge, research and interaction with other organisations - methods which can enhance the quality of and robustness by which the NAO carries out its VFM work. In addition there would be the opportunity for the applicant to be involved directly in some of the VFM work in the welfare and education area and to see how the NAO identifies good and bad practice in Government Departments and agencies and turns these into financial savings for the taxpayer. The ESRC Placement Fellowship Scheme has, in 2007, gone over to an open date call. We welcome suggestions from academics on policy relevant topics they would like to put forward for Fellowships with our partner organisations. To find out more about the ESRC Placement Fellowship Scheme, a Fellowship within the NAO, or for an application form, contact Lesley.lilley@esrc.ac.uk
Miriam Kennet
Green Economics Institute Director.(Since this is only a notice board no recommendation or endorsement is provided and please apply directly to the contact details given for each vacancy.If you do get a job or fill a vacancy as a result of this page please email the institute to let us know, we dont get involved at all in the process in anyway at all.)
