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Post-Doctoral Research fellow - Watching the Disaster Unfold: Geographies of Engagement with Live-Streamed Extreme Weather.About the roleThe University of Plymouth seeks a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow on a fixed-term basis to work on the ESRC funded project ‘Watching the Disaster Unfold: Geographies of Engagement with Live-Streamed Extreme Weather’.The project examines how emerging digital technologies with live-streaming capabilities are generating new opportunities to engage with extreme weather (including floods, storms and hurricanes). These streams include those produced by social media users (‘weather influencers’), those produced by repurposing existing webcam infrastructures (such as airport or beach cameras), and those generated by government agencies (as means of risk communicat...