Research Associate

Job id: 074049. Wage: £42,405 – £47,178 every year, together with London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 04 September 2023. Deadline: 02 October 2023.

Enterprise unit: King’s Enterprise College. Division: Technique, Intl Mgt & Entrepreneurship.

Contact particulars:Dr Catherine Tilley. [email protected]

Location: Strand Campus. Class: Analysis.

Job description

The put up will run from 1st November 2023 till thirty first October 2026  

About King’s Enterprise College

King’s Enterprise College (KBS) is a number one, highly-ranked enterprise faculty with world attain located within the coronary heart of London. We undertake ground-breaking analysis to enhance the way in which individuals do enterprise and we have interaction with organisations around the globe to create actual worth for society. There are presently 140 tutorial workers throughout the College, with a full vary of undergraduate, masters and PhD programmes and a rising deal with government schooling.  

About Centre for Sustainable Enterprise and MaPNet  

We now have secured vital funding to help the event of the brand new Centre for Sustainable Enterprise (CSB), an inclusive, forward-thinking hub devoted to driving significant change. CSB embodies a collaborative method, working along with a broad array of stakeholders – from academia, trade, public sector, and civil society – to foster progressive options that handle the urgent sustainability challenges of our time. We imagine that interdisciplinary analysis and collaboration are key to shaping a extra sustainable and equitable enterprise panorama. By intertwining the insights of various disciplines, we attempt to generate transformative concepts and insurance policies that not solely redefine enterprise practices but in addition contribute to the worldwide sustainability agenda. CSB is greater than a analysis centre; it is a catalyst for change, inspiring the convergence of enterprise, society, and the surroundings within the pursuit of a sustainable future.  Constructing management capability is central to this transformation.   

The Centre homes our That means and Goal Community (MaPNet), a community of employers partnering with KBS lecturers with an curiosity in problems with which means and function at work; MaPNet’s intention is to ‘construct extra moral, inclusive and sustainable futures for organisations by partnership and data sharing.’    

In regards to the function 

We are actually looking for a Put up-Doctoral Analysis Affiliate with an curiosity in the way in which corporations and people use a way of function to drive change. The chosen candidate will play a key function in persevering with to form and develop our analysis work and publishing findings in high-quality journals. 

Collaborative impression: The postholder will work with our dynamic community of members and tutorial workforce to form and drive our analysis agenda. It will embrace finishing up analysis associated to purposeful management in organisations; working with our community members to foster real-world impression from this analysis; engaged on the event of related grant purposes; and contributing to the event of our exterior communications -ranging from publications for tutorial and enterprise audiences to government schooling – on the subject.  

Bridging worlds: We’re searching for a PhD graduate who has an curiosity in matters associated to which means and function as enablers of change, with glorious written and verbal communication and organisational expertise. The postholder shall be working on the interface between academia and follow, and so might want to have an excellent understanding of the wants and priorities of those teams. The function could contain occasional journey to collect information from organisations and current findings at tutorial conferences. 

Studying alternatives: The postholder shall be positioned within the Centre for Sustainable Enterprise on our Strand Campus. There’s a vibrant analysis group inside KBS and the postholder shall be invited to interact in group discussions, enlightening seminars, and different occasions. 

This put up shall be provided on an a fixed-term contract for 3 years from 1st November 2023 

This can be a full-time put up – 100% full time equal

Key duties 

• To hold out analysis that may result in new insights about purposeful management – significantly within the context of a simply transition to a low-carbon economic system
• To analysis and write a) articles in prime quality tutorial journals b) thought-pieces and case-studies for practitioners on matters referring to function and management
• To work with the MaPNet tutorial {and professional} providers workforce to interact actively within the MaPNet community.
• The place related, to increase these hyperlinks nonetheless additional to foster collaborations with different analysis teams
• To contribute to outreach and public engagement actions, the place related, and work to lift the profile of the Centre for Sustainable Enterprise inside King’s and externally.
• To take an lively function in writing funding purposes
• To undertake a variety of duties as an lively member of the Centre for Sustainable enterprise

The above record of duties might not be exhaustive, and the put up holder shall be required to undertake such duties and duties as could moderately be anticipated inside the scope and grading of the put up.

Expertise, data, and expertise

Important standards

1.     PhD diploma in a related topic space 

2.     Information of the literature on points of significant work and organisational function 

3.     Expertise in writing for an educational viewers, demonstrated by related publications 

4.     Expertise in writing for a non-academic viewers 

5.     Expertise in verbal shows to non-academic audiences 

6.     Robust organisational expertise 

7.     Robust inter-personal expertise 

8.     Efficient team-player in a position to work to deadlines 

Fascinating standards

1.      Expertise in writing profitable grant purposes 

2.      Established observe document of analysis on company function 

3.      Expertise in creating analysis with practitioners (for instance: engaged scholarship strategies)