CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellowship in Food System Transformation: Dynamic Benchmarking

• Do you have a PhD (or will shortly satisfy the requirements of a PhD) in a relevant discipline area, such as economics, environmental science, social science, systems sciences, geography or data sciences?
• Contribute to research to drive sustainability and improve nutrition outcomes.
• Join CSIRO – Australia’s leading scientific research organisation!

CSIRO Early Research Career (CERC) Postdoctoral Fellowships provide opportunities to scientists and engineers who have completed their doctorate and have less than three years of relevant postdoctoral work experience. These fellowships aim to develop the next generation of future leaders of the innovation system.

This Postdoctoral Fellowship will be within the CSIRO-UQ Food System Horizons Initiative. The overarching vision of the Food System Horizons Initiative is to help build a new and better-informed national conversation on food system transformation that is inclusive of different stakeholder visions, ambitions and values, and identifies a range of solution pathways to Australia’s food system futures.  

The Postdoctoral Fellow will make significant contributions in developing the evidence base and associated tools to establish a framework of the Australian food system. The framework will have the capacity to monitor and report performances across key dimensions of the food system (e.g. nutrition/health, economic, social, and environmental), help assess and compare the rate and robustness of progress over time, explore interrelationships, identify gaps and vulnerabilities, summarize environmental footprints, and present outlooks. As such, the research will inform about the status of the current Australian food system, contribute to engagement discussions in the Asia Pacific region, and underpin the discourse on a transformative agenda for the future, supporting the aim to strengthen resilience and sustainability within broader regional and international contexts