Research Associate

Department

School for Business and Society

Salary

£36,924 - £45,163 a year

Grade

Grade 6

Contract status

Fixed term

Hours of work

Full-time

Based at

University of York campus (with some remote working options available)

Interview date

TBC

Posted Date

24/01/2025

Apply by

16/02/2025

Job Reference

13838

Documents

Following the recent funding of the UKRI Ayrton Challenge Programme, we are seeking to recruit a postdoctoral research fellow to work on a project concerned with developing sustainable business models for solar energy-as-a- service (EaaS). This element is part of a larger project concerned with co- designing clean energy for rural Africa with service innovations and digital twins, involving collaborations with others at the School for Business and Society and the wider University of York, and partners in Kenya, Malawi and Zambia.

You will work primarily with Professor Michael Ngoasong and Professor Melanie Kreye in the School for Business and Society on analysis of primary data, to develop and implement an affordable and sustainability business model using the EaaS concept. This will also involve collaborating on other work packages on the project concerned with community-centric participatory technology development and the use of the Digital Twin platform as the foundation for developing the EaaS business model.

Energy provision Service-based business models Knowledge of the Sub-Saharan Africa context

This is a fixed term contract up to 31 December 2027 and the start date is around 1 March 2025.

Interview date: to be confirmed

For informal enquiries: please contact please contact Michael Ngoasong (Professor of Entrepreneurship) at [email protected].

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