Research Fellow, Sustainable Systems (fixed term) (ED12143)

Job title Research Fellow, Sustainable Systems (fixed term)

Department Institute of Sustainability and Climate Change

Salary Starting from £46,485, rising to £55,295

Grade Grade 8

Contract Type Full Time, Fixed Term

Placed on Friday 25 October 2024

Closing date Monday 11 November 2024

Interview date Friday 06 December 2024

Reference ED12143

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

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Applications are invited for a highly motivated and ambitious Research Fellow to work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team of researchers at the newly created Bath Institute of Sustainability and Climate Change (ISCC).

The Bath Institute of Sustainability and Climate Change integrates physical, social and systems science and engineering at Bath and develops leaders in tackling critical sustainability issues. Our work spans three core themes:

The Sustainable Systems theme takes a whole-systems perspective to measuring and embedding sustainability in decision-making, using methods from industrial ecology to understand and reduce the environmental footprints.

We particularly welcome candidates with expertise in some or all the following areas of quantitative sustainability assessment:

You will be expected to establish and pursue an independent programme of research within the theme of sustainable systems (further details here). This will include publishing in high-quality journals and securing external research funding.

As a Research Fellow you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the following core objectives of the Institute, by helping to:

Excellent technical, organisational and presentation skills are essential, as is the ability to work well in an interdisciplinary environment.

Interaction with a range of academic, policy and industrial partners will be expected.

Additional information

This is a full-time position, fixed term for 3 years initially with the expectation that this will be extended through securing funding.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Dr Stephen Allen on [email protected]

Find out more about our benefits.

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.

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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.