Research Associate in Coastal Dynamic Management

Job Title: Research Associate in Coastal Dynamic Management Department/School: Belfast School of Architecture and the Built Environment Campus: Belfast Salary: £33,680 - £36,341 per annum Duration: Fixed-Term for 12 months / Full-time Closing Date: 23rd November 2026 at 23:30 Reference Number: 044206 - ABOUT US - We are a university with a national and international reputation for excellence, innovation and regional engagement, making a major contribution to the economic, social and cultural development of Northern Ireland. Our core business activities are teaching and learning, widening access to education, research and innovation and technology and knowledge transfer. - THE ROLE - The postholder will support the project "Coastal-Twin AI for Dynamic Shoreline Management" (C-TIDE), funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), UKRI, to develop an AI-enabled digital twin for coastal shoreline management in Northern Ireland. The Research Associate will be working on the technical pipeline: acquiring and harmonising the project''s coastal datasets, contributing to the development and validation of the proposed AI models for shoreline detection and morphodynamics, integrating these into the decision-support digital twin, and supporting the human-in-the-loop and reporting workstreams. C-TIDE is addressing the lack of a strategic Shoreline Management Plan for Northern Ireland''s coastline, which faces increasing storm frequency, wave action and sea-level rise. ..... full job details .....