Professor in Sustainable Logistics

Edinburgh Enterprise College is recruiting a Professor in Sustainable Logistics to hitch the world-leading Centre for Sustainable Logistics (CLS) which is predicated inside the Advertising and marketing and Operations Division.  CLS is internationally recognised for its analysis and business engagement and has a rising analysis portfolio of nationwide and worldwide significance.  CLS main the UKRI TRANSIT challenge and is a co-investigator with DARe (Decarbonised Adaptable and Resilient Transport Infrastructure).  These initiatives have a deliberate mixed funding of £32M with matched business funding of business of £25M. CLS is poised to increase its analysis into digitalisation and synthetic intelligence. This new position will advance the management and improvement of CLS to make an enhanced contribution to the College’s World Analysis Institute (GRI) for Internet Zero.

Heriot-Watt’s Edinburgh Enterprise College (EBS) is a worldwide chief in high-quality, accessible, practice-oriented enterprise schooling and analysis. At Edinburgh Enterprise College, we envision a future the place our contributions enhance the world and go away a significant legacy for generations to return. We’re desperate to welcome college and employees who will assist us forge the longer term by means of groundbreaking analysis, modern pedagogy, and dynamic skilled companies. We’re on the lookout for colleagues who:

• Perceive and embrace the worth of accessible, practice-oriented studying and analysis.
• Pursue excellence each individually and collectively.
• Know the worth of collaboration.
• Embrace our inclusive, international group.
• Are obsessed with making a distinction.

Candidates should possess a PhD in a related discipline.  They need to exhibit excellent tutorial achievement by means of a observe document of grant funding, internationally wonderful publications, and business collaboration with related affect case research. As well as, candidates ought to have confirmed potential in mentoring and growing colleagues at varied profession levels.  The best candidate could have an exterior worldwide community of analysis collaborators and exhibit success at assembly strategic college analysis targets.

This position is appropriate for both Affiliate Professors trying to progress right into a full professorial position, or those that are at the moment a professor.  Workload is split usually as 40% Analysis, 40% educating and 20% administration.  Allotted educating is deliberate to be delivering research-informed content material to undergraduate and taught postgraduate plus PhD supervision. Distinctive candidates could qualify as a Bicentennial Chair which for 3 years could have a division of workload of 70% for analysis, 10% for educating and 20% for administrative exercise.  

Heriot-Watt College is dedicated to securing equality of alternative in employment and to the creation of an setting wherein people are chosen, educated, promoted, appraised, and in any other case handled on the only real foundation of their related deserves and skills.  Equality and variety are all about maximising potential and making a tradition of inclusion for all. Heriot-Watt College values range throughout our College group and welcomes purposes from all sectors of society, significantly from underrepresented teams. For extra info, please see our web site www.hw.ac.uk/uk/companies/equality-diversity.htm We welcome and can contemplate versatile working patterns e.g. part-time working and job share choices. Purposes from candidates who require sponsorship to work within the UK will likely be thought of alongside different purposes. For additional info on this please go to the UK Visas & Immigration web site: www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas

For a confidential dialog in regards to the position please contact Mohamed Ebrahim at GatenbySanderson ([email protected] ) To search out out extra in regards to the position and apply click on Apply. 

Deadline: Monday 15 April 2024.