Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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

Surrey Enterprise Faculty is a number one enterprise college with over 120 educational employees members from across the globe, and a extremely cohesive and collegial environment. The Faculty is accredited by AACSB, AMBA and holds the Advance HE Athena SWAN bronze award. We encourage optimistic change in enterprise and society, people and organisations, regionally 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 leads to 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 Faculty’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 impressive worldwide College with an enterprising spirit.

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

We’re dedicated to sustainability and encourage all employees to undertake working practices that minimise influence to the atmosphere wherever doable.

The position

A postdoctoral researcher (part-time, fixed-term) goes to be employed to work on a mission 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 mission is in collaboration with main industrial companions, on a really well timed matter, aiming primarily to create sensible influence. The work packages of the mission will discover the impacts of CBDCs on provide chain finance points of SMEs concerned in international provide chains. The mission is led by Dr Vahid Mirzabeiki, Senior Lecturer in Operations Administration at Division of Enterprise Analytics and Operations of Surrey Enterprise Faculty.

About you

It is best to have a PhD in both areas associated to provide chain and operation administration or FinTech. You need to be snug and captivated with working with industrial establishments and practitioners on a mission primarily aiming to make a sensible influence. It is best to have each qualitative and quantitative analytical expertise, robust communication expertise in written and spoken English, presentation and networking, and teamwork expertise. The mission consists of occasional travels throughout the UK.

The right way to apply

Please submit a CV, a canopy letter, and phone particulars for 2 references to make your utility on the College web site. Casual enquiries needs 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 Stage 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 can be elevated to Stage 4.1 (£36,024).