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About the Program
This program seeks to improve climate change communication and adaptation decision-making in response to climate variability and change within the humanitarian sector. It connects humanitarian practitioners from the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre [RC/RC CC] an affiliate of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies [IFRC] with science-policy graduate student researchers at the University of Colorado, to accomplish three specific goals:
- to improve the capacity of humanitarian practitioners within IFRC network at the interface of climate science, policy and practice
- to forge a unique partnership and facilitate collaborations between CU and RC/RC CC
- to help meet needs and gaps as well as work as a research clearing house in the stated themes climate change communication and adaptation decision-making in response to climate variability and change, as identified through RC/RC CC priorities and projects
This internship program will place Masters and Ph.D. students in IFRC regional field offices in Southern and East Africa for a period of approximately 3 months.
Students will design their own program of work in conjunction with their CU Boulder advisor and a RC/RC CC supervisor. The RC/RC CC supervisor will liaise with specific IFRC field offices to identify potential projects and placements. Projects can encompass, but are not limited to, topics such as the use of scientific information in decision making, communication of probability and uncertainty, perceptions of risk, and characterizing vulnerability and adaptive capacity. Placements in the field will address specific needs identified by IFRC field staff related to challenges of science communication and adaptation decision-making. Participants will be required to complete a short report at the conclusion of their internship detailing their experience and research outcomes.
As funding allows, interns will be provided with round-trip airfare to their field site, with travel to be organized through the University of Colorado. Interns will also receive a stipend to cover offset costs of in-country housing, food and transportation. Funding is limited and applicants are encouraged to seek additional funding from alternate sources.
CSTPR faculty and grad students (Dilling, Daly, Boykoff, Quandt,Tozier de la Poterie, and Venkateswaran) highlighted in Colorado Daily article on CU's Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre Internship program:
CU-Boulder students focus on aid policies with new Red Cross partnership by Jake Hazan
Colorado Daily
June 26, 2013
Contacts
Max Boykoff
Assistant Professor
Environmental Studies Program
Campus Box 488
tel: (303) 735-0451
Email: boykoff@colorado.edu
Meaghan Daly
Environmental Studies PhD student
Campus Box 488
email: meaghan.daly@colorado.edu
Application Deadline: November 1, 2013
Cosponsored by
Outreach and Engagement University of Colorado Boulder
Center for Science and Technology Policy Research
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Environmental Studies Program
