Research Associate/Lecturer

About AAP:

The College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University (Cornell AAP) is home to nearly 1000 students, 120 faculty, and 65 staff members who come together from around the world to take up some of today's most urgent challenges and advance research, inquiry, and approaches to designing, making, and doing that build a more just and sustainable future.

A vital college at one of the nation's foremost research universities, Cornell AAP bridges fields and faculty with five departments, 20 degree programs, 18 faculty-led labs, and the Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities, a platform for building partnerships that make change in our cities and communities nationally and internationally.

Cornell AAP's departments include Architecture, Art, and Planning, as well as the new multicollege Paul Rubacha Department of Real Estate, jointly led by the S.C. Johnson College of Business, and the multicollege Department of Design Tech, administered by Cornell AAP in partnership with Cornell Bowers CIS, Cornell Engineering, the College of Human Ecology, and Cornell Tech. The college is housed across three locations (Ithaca, New York City, and Rome, Italy), each with world-class facilities and cutting-edge technologies.

Cornell AAP is about acts of transformation. We are committed to building a caring, inclusive, and rigorous community around our shared priorities - Creative + Critical Practices; Sustainability + Social Impact; Design + Emerging Technologies; and the Future of Cities + Development - that enable us to reimagine and reshape the world in radically new ways, every day.

The Department of City and Regional Planning (CRP) provides a dynamic, rigorous, and supportive context for addressing the most timely planning questions of our time: from social and environmental justice to equity and access to essential services and infrastructures; from climate change adaptation to land use, zoning, and sustainable transportation and housing. At CRP, the next generation of planners and urbanists hone critical disciplinary skills while broadening their knowledge with a wide selection of courses from across Cornell University, an Ivy League, New York State Land Grant institution with a global footprint.

The department of CRP is the home of leading programs in planning, historic preservation planning, and urban and regional studies and is comprised of approximately 20 core faculty, 120 undergraduate students, 110 graduate students, and 4 staff members.

Position Function

This full time Lecturer/Research Associate position will provide research and teaching support in planning to address social determinants of health (economic development, planning, local government finance, services and infrastructure) with a focus on both qualitative approaches and quantitative modeling techniques.

Research responsibilities: Contribute to the design and implementation of research projects on planning, community development and public health. This will include analysis of large scale data sets of medical records data at the individual level. Additional data collection will involve analysis of economic, demographic, health, finance and planning data at the local government and school district level, as well as design and analysis of surveys and focus groups with service providers and local governments to help address the broader social determinants of health. Analysis will include both qualitative analysis and advanced statistical skills in quantitative data analysis, including a range of software packages to collect, visualize, and analyze data. Candidate will be responsible for data management, data visualization, advanced statistical and geographical analysis, as well as supervision of students.Candidate will help write journal articles, present at academic conferences and help write grant proposals. Candidate may conduct their own individual research initiatives as well.

Teaching and Student Supervision Responsibilities: Candidate will teach courses in geographic information systems and community development each year. Students will learn how to collect, visualize, and analyze data and engage in academic writing with a focus on planning and community development. Course topics include academic writing, data management, data visualization and geographic analysis. Special attention will be given to applications to research and policy. Candidate will supervise students in class projects, masters research, and in ongoing research activities, and will be responsible for advising 4 to 5 students per year.

Requirements

• A PhD in Geography is required to perform the duties of the position.
• Required: Knowledge of data collection and management, statistics, spatial analysis, and academic writing. Knowledge of the literature in economic development and planning.
• Three years job-related teaching and research experience required.

Diversity and inclusion are a part of Cornell University's heritage. We are a recognized employer and educator valuing AA/EEO, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities.

Cornell is committed to hiring faculty who share its commitment to educating and pursuing knowledge for any person in any study. We require that every applicant for an academic appointment provide a Statement of Contribution to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. This statement offers candidates an opportunity to describe their potential contributions to diversity and inclusion at Cornell and our legacy of ". . . any person . . . any study." Candidates are also invited to connect their contributions to Cornell's role as a land-grant institution enabling community improvement through research and teaching.

Required application materials:

• Curriculum vitae
• Cover Letter
• All applicants should submit their materials electronically to Academic Jobs Online: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29318

Supervision Exercised

Candidate will supervise graduate and undergraduate students.

Supervision Received

From AAP: Sophie Oldfield and Mildred Warner will supervise the position.

From Brooks School: Sharon Tennyson will supervise the position.

Location

Ithaca, NY. Office space will be provided by AAP.

Travel will be required in state and nationally. Travel funds will be included in fund allocation for the position.

Start Date

December 15, 2024

Further information about the Department of City and Regional Planning and its students, alumni, and faculty, and the CIVIC initiative, may be found at the following links:

https://aap.cornell.edu/crp

Pay Range:

Pay Ranges:

The hiring rate of pay for the successful candidate will be determined considering the following criteria:

• Prior relevant work or industry experience.
• Education level to the extent education is relevant to the position.
• Academic Discipline
• Unique applicable skills.

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