University of Strathclyde
Job title:
Research Associate
Company
University of Strathclyde
Job description
Closing date: 02/04/2025Salary range: £37,174 – £45,413FTE: 1Term: Fixed (12 month)The Centre for Energy Policy (CEP) is seeking to recruit a new Research Associate to join our growing research team. We are interested in candidates with a PhD level education with research and knowledge exchange interest and experience in public policy-facing energy or net zero research. We are particularly interested in candidates with broad understanding of the energy policy space and the ability to communicate complex academic research ideas to a non-expert audience. This includes written and verbal communication skills. The post is part of a project under the UK Energy Research Centre, which examines the evidence around key contentious debates in energy policy. This project is led by Jamie Speirs, Deputy Director of CEP. The candidate’s expertise should also complement CEP’s broader interests in understanding and communicating the wider consequences and challenges facing government, industry and publics in delivering a sustainable, equitable and affordable net zero transition.
Under the guidance of research leaders in CEP, you will play a key role in delivering research and knowledge exchange projects, realising impact and developing proposals. You will be involved in writing up research work for publication, individually or in collaboration with colleagues, and disseminating the results via peer reviewed journal publications and presentation at conferences and preparing linked non-technical policy briefs and blogs. You will have an ability to plan and organise your own workload effectively and an ability to work within a team environment. You will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to listen, engage and persuade, and to present complex information in an accessible way to a range of audiences. You will join external networks to share information and ideas, inform the development of research objectives and to identify potential sources of funding. You will collaborate with colleagues to ensure that research advances inform departmental teaching effort and there will be opportunities to supervise student projects, provide advice to students and contribute to teaching as required by, for example, running tutorials and supervising practical work. You will contribute to developing capacity to Department, Faculty and/or University administrative and management functions and committees and engage in continuous professional development.
The Centre for Energy Policy, based in the Department of Government and Public Policy within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Strathclyde works with research, government and industry partners to understand and address the pressing public policy challenge of enabling sustainable and prosperous transitions to mid-century Net Zero targets. Launched in 2015 under the leadership of the Centre Director, Professor Karen Turner, CEP has an established track record of independent, rigorous and multidisciplinary research focused on understanding the wider economy consequences of taking various decarbonisation actions in different economic contexts and timeframes. The Centre was founded with the aim of generating knowledge and evidence that can play an essential part in identifying economically, socially and politically feasible policy pathways to deliver the Net Zero transition. As part of the Department of Government and Public Policy, ranked first across the UK for its research quality in politics and international studies in REF 2021 (where CEP contributed a 4* Impact Case Study), the Centre is committed to achieving real-world impacts. CEP has already helped shape UK and Scottish Government policy in areas including energy efficiency, industrial decarbonisation, heat decarbonisation and low carbon transport.For informal enquiries, please contact Reader and Deputy Director, CEP Jamie Fraser Speirs ([email protected])
Expected salary
£37174 – 45413 per year
Location
United Kingdom
Job date
Sat, 08 Mar 2025 06:53:00 GMT
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