www.buildingsandcities.org/insights/news/new-editorial-positions.html
We are seeking 2 people to journal our editorial team
Buildings & Cities journal is looking for 2 new Associate Editors to join our outstanding editorial team and to support the journal's mission. One role would specifically handle its communications through social media and the other role would oversee its "Commentaries" and "Research Pathways" initiatives. The commitment for each would be 3 hours per week. The Associate Editors will work in close cooperation with other B&C Editors.
The Communications Editor post would entail (1) creating and developing a LinkedIn profile for the journal along with suitable content (Calls for Papers, Special Issues, Events, highlighting research papers' content) and (2) creating content for our lively Twitter account based on our publications and activities: @BuildingsCities
The Commentaries Editor post will entail (1) developing, (2) identifying and commissioning suitable authors and then (3) editing their manuscripts to create a series of Commentaries and Research Pathways essays for our website.
• A strong
understanding of built environment research
issues
• Research
experience (PhD or equivalent)
• Academic
writing and publication experience
• Ability
to synthesize information succinctly and clearly
•
Excellent communication skills
• Excellent
teamworking abilities and willingness to contribute to collaborative
decision-making processes
• Web
authoring skills (desirable)
• Editing
experience (desirable)
Please submit (1) a CV, (2) a cover letter highlighting which role(s) you are applying for together with your relevant experience and skills, (3) two relevant samples of your writing aimed at engagement with different audiences and (4) two references to:
Closing date: 15 March 2022.
Shortlisted applicants will be asked to make a short 5-minute presentation about their strategy and skills for the journal and the post(s) they are applying for.
Buildings & Cities is an independent and not-for-profit journal. It has rapidly established itself as a cutting edge home for quality research on the built environment. In addition to being a peer-review journal, we provide an intellectual space for engagement between researchers, practitioners and policy makers. Our actions are underpinned by our values and commitments found in our Key Principles. The scope of the journal is defined in our Aims & Scope.
Buildings & Cities is a highly dynamic, transdisciplinary built environment journal. It actively promotes excellence in research, two-way dialogue with the end users of this research and actively works to support early career researchers. The journal publishes peer reviewed scholarship (https://journal-buildingscities.org/ ) as well as news, commentaries, feedback on special issues and book reviews (https://www.buildingsandcities.org/)
Our editorial team is united by a mission to deliver world-class peer-reviewed quality research and provide clear reliable and usable information to the 'end users' of research. We encourage research that responds to societal demands and capabilities.
We seek to recruit and appoint the best talent regardless of age, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, disability, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
These are two intellectually stimulating and demanding roles that are vital for quality publishing today. Each role will expand your international networks, your international profile and provide a broad overview of emerging issues and research. Working within a friendly, small, highly experienced, editorial team, this is an opportunity to expand your knowledge as well as writing and dissemination skills.
You will be involved in engagement with academics, practitioners and users in the built environment, including exposure to networks of scholars, our international editorial board and practitioner panel. You will promote the dissemination and discussion of research findings.
These part-time roles should be considered as a service to the research and wider built environment community and an opportunity to enhance and further develop a personal research career. The posts are not remunerative. It is anticipated that each role will require 3 hours a week on average. Applicants may receive support from their academic institution for their time commitment in this role as career development and/or community service.
In addition to the journal's Aims & Scope, our actions are underpinned by our values and commitments:
Analysing cold-climate urban heat islands using personal weather station data
J Taylor, C H Simpson, J Vanhatalo, H Sohail, O Brousse, & C Heaviside
Are simple models for natural ventilation suitable for shelter design?
A Conzatti, D Fosas de Pando, B Chater & D Coley
Impact of roofing materials on school temperatures in tropical Africa
E F Amankwaa, B M Roberts, P Mensah & K V Gough
Acceptability of sufficiency consumption policies by Finnish households
E Nuorivaara & S Ahvenharju
Key factors for revitalising heritage buildings through adaptive reuse
É Savoie, J P Sapinski & A-M Laroche
Cooler streets for a cycleable city: assessing policy alignment
C Tang & J Bush
Understanding the embodied carbon credentials of modern methods of construction
R O'Hegarty, A McCarthy, J O'Hagan, T Thanapornpakornsin, S Raffoul & O Kinnane
The changing typology of urban apartment buildings in Aurinkolahti
S Meriläinen & A Tervo
Embodied climate impacts in urban development: a neighbourhood case study
S Sjökvist, N Francart, M Balouktsi & H Birgisdottir
Environmental effects of urban wind energy harvesting: a review
I Tsionas, M laguno-Munitxa & A Stephan
Office environment and employee differences by company health management certification
S Arata, M Sugiuchi, T Ikaga, Y Shiraishi, T Hayashi, S Ando & S Kawakubo
Spatiotemporal evaluation of embodied carbon in urban residential development
I Talvitie, A Amiri & S Junnila
Energy sufficiency in buildings and cities: current research, future directions [editorial]
M Sahakian, T Fawcett & S Darby
Sufficiency, consumption patterns and limits: a survey of French households
J Bouillet & C Grandclément
Health inequalities and indoor environments: research challenges and priorities [editorial]
M Ucci & A Mavrogianni
Operationalising energy sufficiency for low-carbon built environments in urbanising India
A B Lall & G Sethi
Promoting practices of sufficiency: reprogramming resource-intensive material arrangements
T H Christensen, L K Aagaard, A K Juvik, C Samson & K Gram-Hanssen
Structural barriers to sufficiency: the contribution of research on elites
M Koch, K Emilsson, J Lee & H Johansson
Disrupting the imaginaries of urban action to deliver just adaptation [editorial]
V Castán-Broto, M Olazabal & G Ziervogel
Nature for resilience reconfigured: global- to-local translation of frames in Africa
K Rochell, H Bulkeley & H Runhaar
How hegemonic discourses of sustainability influence urban climate action
V Castán Broto, L Westman & P Huang
Fabric first: is it still the right approach?
N Eyre, T Fawcett, M Topouzi, G Killip, T Oreszczyn, K Jenkinson & J Rosenow
Social value of the built environment [editorial]
F Samuel & K Watson
Understanding demolition [editorial]
S Huuhka
Data politics in the built environment [editorial]
A Karvonen & T Hargreaves
Latest Commentaries
Self-Organised Knowledge Space as a Living Lab
While Living Labs are often framed as structured, institutionalised spaces for innovation, Sadia Sharmin (Habitat Forum Berlin) reinterprets the concept through the lens of grassroots urban practices. She argues that self-organised knowledge spaces can function as Living Labs by fostering situated learning, collective agency, and community resilience. The example of a Living Lab in Bangladesh provides a model pathway to civic participation and spatial justice.
Climate Mitigation & Carbon Budgets: Research Challenges
Thomas Lützkendorf (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) explains how the research community has helped to change the climate change policy landscape for the construction and real estate sectors, particularly for mitigating GHG emissions. Evidence can be used to influence policy pathways and carbon budgets, and to develop detailed carbon strategies and implementation. A key challenge is to create a stronger connection between the requirements for individual buildings and the national reduction pathways for the built environment.