Research Associate (ProSPECT) (FM12418)

University of Bath
February 23, 2025
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Job title Research Associate (ProSPECT)

Department Mechanical Engineering

Salary Starting from £37,999, rising to £45,163

Grade Grade 7

Contract Type Full Time, Fixed Term

Placed on Monday 27 January 2025

Closing date Sunday 23 February 2025

Interview date Monday 10 March 2025

Reference FM12418

Applicant Visa Guidance Skilled Worker visa: guidance for applicants (bath.ac.uk)

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About the role

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath to work with Professor Chris Bowen, who has been awarded a prestigous UKRI Frontier Research Project in Porous Processing of Smart Porous Electro-Ceramic Transducers (ProSPECT).

A range of multi-disciplinary energy harvesting methods will be examined within the project. You will develop processing methods and models for producing porous ferroelectric materials via freeze casting to produce a range of porous structures, including templated structures and composites.

Applications include SONAR, sensing and energy harvesting for converting mechanical vibrations into electrical energy for high-temperature applications. Research will be disseminated in high-quality peer-reviewed journals and key international conferences.

For a further of the role's responsibilities please see the Job Description attached below.

This position is offered on a full-time basis, fixed term for 2 years from 1st April 2025.

About you

Our ideal candidate will have:

  • Require a degree and PhD (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline (materials, physics, electrical engineering)
  • A motivated approach to multi-disciplinary research
  • Skills in materials processing and characterisation and/or modelling
  • The ability to work as a team with other PhD and post-doctoral researchers within the project
  • A lower grade offer may be made (Grade 6) with comparable reduction in responsibilities and amendment in job title to Research Assistant, if a suitable applicant cannot be found to fill the Grade 7 position. Applicants will need to be within six months of their course completion date and will be promoted to Research Associate once their PhD has been awarded.

    Further information

    For an informal discussion about the role please contact Professor Chris Bowen, PI, at [email protected] or Dr Hamideh Khanbareh, Senior Lecturer, at [email protected].

    What we can offer you:

    We consider ourselves to be a 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 the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

    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.

  • Free counselling services through Health Assured
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
  • Staff discount at Team Bath gym
  • Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
  • Staff discount on language courses
  • Generous employer contributory pension schemes
  • Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
  • A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
  • Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
  • Local discounts and more
  • A family-friendly workplace
  • An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
  • Relocation allowance
  • Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses
  • We are committed to continually expanding our benefits to better support you and enhance your experience with us. Find out more about our benefits.

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    Further details:
  • Research Assistant Job Description
  • Research Associate Job Description

  • Terms and Conditions of Employment

  • 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 such as your name, may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.

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