Knowledge Exchange Associate (Part Time, Fixed Term) (CH11191)

Job title Knowledge Exchange Associate (Part Time, Fixed Term)

Department Psychology

Salary Starting from £37,099, rising to £44,263 pro rata per annum

Grade Grade 7

Placed on Friday 17 November 2023

Closing date Sunday 03 December 2023

Interview date To be confirmed

Reference CH11191

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An exciting opportunity has arisen to work in the Centre for Climate Change & Social Transformations (CAST) to deliver its mission of helping people create the transformation required to tackle climate change.

CAST is seeking a highly motivated Knowledge Exchange (KE) Associate to translate our research into real-world impact, and ultimately help tackle the climate crisis. The Centre is already working with policy-makers, businesses and charities to create social, behavioural and organisational change measures and policies, but we need to expand our capabilities to respond rapidly to stakeholders' growing requests for our insights.

You will work with policy communities to translate CAST's behaviour change and engagement expertise into policy action, and with private-sector and third- sector organisations to co-develop and evaluate specific interventions and tools to change behaviour/organisations to cut emissions.

As well as responding to requests from these research users for CAST's insights, we also expect the Associate to cultivate KE opportunities and apply for funding for further research and engagement work. Across activities, the Associate should collect evidence of impact that could inform future REF impact case studies.

This role is offered on maternity cover job-share (18.25 hours per week) fixed-term basis until 30/04/2024 or the early return of the postholder.

You will have a background in social science and be an excellent communicator. In addition, you should have:

The Centre for Climate Change & Social Transformations (CAST) is a five-year (with potential for a further 5-10 year extension) £5m investment by ESRC, involving the University of Bath, Cardiff University, Manchester University, University of East Anglia, York University and Climate Outreach. The Centre aims to be a global hub for understanding the profound changes required to address climate change.

At its core, is a fundamental question of enormous social significance: how can we as a society live differently – and better – in ways that meet the urgent need for rapid and far-reaching emission reductions? CAST focuses on people as agents of transformation and works across multiple scales (individual, community, organisational, national and global) to identify and experiment with various routes to achieving lasting change in the areas of mobility, food, heating/cooling, and material consumption. More details at: www. cast.ac.uk.

We aim to be an inclusive university, where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on our teams.

We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

Find out from our staff what makes the University of Bath a great place to work. Follow us @UniofBath and @UniofBathJobs on Twitter for more information.

We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details will be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.