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Internship Offer: BEST Project
In-depth Literature Review focusing on Well-being, Balance, and Systems Concepts_
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Profile Description
•    Background: The sought-after profile is centred around urban planning, urban engineering, geography, geomatics, or topics related to systems studies, ensuring a solid understanding of territorial issues and complex interactions within urban systems.
•    Writing Skills: Excellent writing and synthesis skills, evidenced by prior quality academic or professional work, ensuring clear and effective communication of research findings.
•    Linguistic Proficiency: Good command of English and/or French, both written and spoken, enabling effective communication in an international context.
•    Autonomy: Ability to conduct research autonomously, particularly in collecting and analyzing relevant information for the project, demonstrating the capacity to work independently and efficiently.
•    Intellectual Curiosity: Strong interest in research, with a desire to explore new subjects, deeply understand issues, and contribute to advancing knowledge. Openness to exploring diverse fields and tackling intellectual challenges, reflecting a willingness to learn and develop skills within research projects.

Start Date:
As soon as possible, no later than September 2, 2024

Duration:
6 months

Work Hours:
35 hours per week

Host Organization and Location
Host Organization: Avenues Laboratory / UTC (Université de Technologie de Compiègne)
The selected individual will strengthen the thematic axis "Urban Models, Planning, and Metropolitanization" of the Avenues research laboratory at UTC.
Address: Rue du docteur Schweitzer, Centre Pierre Guillaumat 2, 60203 Compiègne, France
Website: https://avenues.utc.fr/presentation/lab … enues.html

Direct Supervisor at Host Organization
Name: Mr. Maxime Hachette
Position: Associate Professor
Department: Avenues Laboratory
Phone: +33 (0)3 44 23 49 11
Email: maxime.hachette@texte-a-enlever.utc.fr

Internship Description
Title: In-depth Literature Review focusing on Well-being, Balance, and Systems Concepts
Research Project: BEST (Building a Theoretical Framework for the Notion of Territorial System Balance)
Project Funding: "Project funded by UTC Research Directorate as part of the Young Lecturer Call"

Internship Framework:
The BEST research project aims to develop a solid theoretical framework for understanding the concept of "balance" and its application to territorial systems, with a focus on modelling and the prospective development of a multi-scale representation tool for continuous evaluation, simulation, and decision support. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the project seeks to explore the concepts of "system" and "territorial system," as well as identify and analyse the complex interactions among territorial system components. The objective is also to familiarize with the concept of balance to propose and study the relevance of a "dynamic territorial balance" concept, emphasizing the well-being of territory occupants. The approach also aims to develop a robust theoretical model, which, at a later stage, will be implemented in the development of the envisioned tool, in the form of a modular and scalable web application.

Main Responsibilities:
The selected individual will significantly contribute to various aspects of the research project, including:
•    Conducting in-depth literature reviews focusing on well-being, balance, and systems concepts, with specific emphasis on territorial systems, their modelling, and evaluation. This process is essential to strengthen the project's theoretical foundations, laying a solid groundwork for subsequent stages.
•    Actively participating in written and oral communications, bringing innovative perspectives.
•    Proposing innovative theoretical approaches to modelling, significantly contributing to advancing the research project.
•    Likely to manage surveys or conduct interviews.
•    Likely to present the research project and completed work in English or French, in person or via video conference, to specialized audiences, in France or Europe (seminars, conferences, etc.).

Additional Responsibilities:
Depending on the methodology adopted by the selected individual, additional tasks may be necessary.

Application Procedure:
Candidates are requested to first contact Mr. Hachette as soon as possible and then send their CV and cover letter by June 30, 2024. Although not mandatory, a candidate's application accompanied by a brief example of written work and letters of recommendation will be highly appreciated.