Overview
Internship opportunity within the Transport Division/Transport Research and Policy Section focusing on research and support for sustainable transport policies.
Key Responsibilities
- Research on themes such as environmental and social dimensions of transport, climate change impacts, reducing emissions, sustainable urban mobility, electric mobility, socially inclusive public transport, resilient transport systems, and assessment of transport and urban mobility.
- Support in preparing case studies and background materials for meetings and workshops.
- Support in preparing, editing, and finalizing research outputs like policy briefs, blogs, publications, and technical reports.
- Undertake literature review, identify research gaps, and propose research topics and methods.
- Identify and collect data, select methodologies, and conduct trend analysis of transport development.
- Review, analyze, and compile data, preparing reports with findings, conclusions, and references.
- Prepare presentations on work or findings.
- Coordinate and liaise with Transport Division staff to identify key issues.
- Prepare infographics and communication material for advocacy.
Required Experience
Experience in quantitative data analysis, including understanding of transport modelling techniques and methodologies. Passionate about compiling, analysing, and disseminating insights from data to inform policymaking processes. Interest in research activities.
Qualifications
Applicants must, at the time of application, meet one of the following requirements: (a) Be enrolled in, or have completed, a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher); or, (b) Be enrolled in, or have completed, the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum bachelor's level or equivalent).
