Applications are invited for a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Level 1 in the UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science. This is a temporary post.
UCD is one of Ireland’s leading universities and UCD Lyons Farm, where this position will be based, is used extensively for teaching and research in the College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine.
Post quota abolition, grass based systems will predominate in Ireland, but as land will be the main limiting resource, individual farmers will be required to expand on a limited land bank. The main aim of the research at UCD Lyons Farm for the initial 5-year period is to evaluate the feasibility of a high input/output grazing system within such a limited land holding scenario. The focus in such a system will be on maximising milk/milk solids output from the existing land holding which involves high output from individual cows and high stocking rates. This will occur most efficiently through mmaximising the use of grazed grass/home grown forage in the system and the strategic use of supplementation thereafter. The successful Post-Doctoral Fellow will work principally on this project collating and reporting data gathered from a 60-cow demonstration herd.
See Job Description for more details.
Salary: €36,489 per annum.
Closing Date: 17.00hrs (Local Irish Time) Friday 2nd February 2018.
Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified. Any applications which are still in progress at the closing time of 17:00hrs (Local Irish Time) on the specified closing date will be cancelled automatically by the system. UCD are unable to accept late applications.
UCD do not require assistance from Recruitment Agencies. Any CVs submitted by Recruitment Agencies will be returned.
Prior to application, further information (including application procedure) should be obtained from the Work at UCD website:
https://www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/.
