Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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Enterprise Analytics and Operations
Location: Guildford
Wage:
£18,012
every year professional rata (0.5 FTE)
Half time, Mounted time period
Publish Kind: Half Time
Closing Date:
23.59 hours BST on Thursday 04 April 2024
Interview Date:
Tuesday 09 April 2024
Reference: 009124-R

Surrey Enterprise College is a number one enterprise faculty with over 120 educational workers members from across the globe, and a extremely cohesive and collegial ambiance. The College is accredited by AACSB, AMBA and holds the Advance HE Athena SWAN bronze award. We encourage constructive change in enterprise and society, people and organisations, domestically and globally by mixing the rigour of high-quality impactful analysis with glorious educating and the strengths of a technology-led college. We’re ranked within the high 10 for enterprise and economics in the UK by the Occasions Larger Training World College Rankings 2023 by topic. Our ends in the Analysis Excellence Framework 2021 place us nineteenth general within the UK, tenth within the UK for analysis outputs and sixteenth within the UK for analysis influence. 

The College’s strengths are significantly in digital innovation and technological transformation, worldwide enterprise, management and organizational psychology, and enterprise analytics. Set within the lovely countryside of Surrey with the comfort of bustling Guildford in your doorstep and London simply 34 minutes away by prepare, the College of Surrey is an excellent worldwide College with an enterprising spirit.

 The College works carefully with a community of enterprise companions and different stakeholders, boasting robust hyperlinks with many technology-oriented start-ups and established companies in London, and the South-East of England. For additional info, please go to the SBS web site .

We’re dedicated to sustainability and encourage all workers to undertake working practices that minimise influence to the surroundings wherever attainable.

The position

A postdoctoral researcher (part-time, fixed-term) goes to be employed to work on a venture funded by the ESRC Affect Acceleration Account on Central Financial institution Digital Currencies (CBDC) for managing provide chain finance of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). The size of the place is 6 months, and it’s part-time, i.e., 0.5 FTE.

The venture is in collaboration with main industrial companions, on a really well timed matter, aiming primarily to create sensible influence. The work packages of the venture will discover the impacts of CBDCs on provide chain finance facets of SMEs concerned in international provide chains. The venture is led by Dr Vahid Mirzabeiki, Senior Lecturer in Operations Administration at Division of Enterprise Analytics and Operations of Surrey Enterprise College.

About you

You must have a PhD in both areas associated to produce chain and operation administration or FinTech. Try to be comfy and captivated with working with industrial establishments and practitioners on a venture primarily aiming to make a sensible influence. You must have each qualitative and quantitative analytical expertise, robust communication expertise in written and spoken English, presentation and networking, and teamwork expertise. The venture consists of occasional travels inside the UK.

Find out how to apply

Please submit a CV, a canopy letter, and call particulars for 2 references to make your utility on the College web site. Casual enquiries ought to be despatched to Dr Vahid Mirzabeiki on: [email protected]

Please notice interviews are scheduled to happen week commencing eighth April. 

Please notice, it’s College Coverage to supply a beginning wage equal to Degree 3.6 (£34,980) to profitable candidates who’ve been awarded, however are but to obtain, their PhD certificates.  As soon as the unique PhD certificates has been submitted to the native HR Division, the wage will probably be elevated to Degree 4.1 (£36,024).