[STS-Africa] FW: [Job] Permanent Research Fellow opportunity - Global Sustainability Institute

[gianluca.miscione at ucd.ie]

Perhaps of interest to some

 

Gianluca Miscione
University College Dublin
 <http://www.ucd.ie/cito/members/gianlucamiscione> http://www.ucd.ie/cito/members/gianlucamiscione

 

 

Permanent Research Fellow job opportunity: Interdisciplinary social sciences for sustainability

 

Headlines

*	Based at Global Sustainability Institute, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.
*	Salary: £34,304-£39,739 per annum | Permanent, full-time position on research career ladder.
*	Application deadline: Monday 28 March 2022 | Interview date: Friday 22 April 2022 | Start date: negotiable, likely June 2022 onwards

 

Global Sustainability Institute (GSI)

Over the past 10 years, the GSI has built a global reputation for delivering research impact and high-quality publications across a broad range of sustainability issues. The GSI undertakes interdisciplinary, action-focussed Social Sciences and Humanities research to support transformations towards sustainable and just societies. The GSI has a particular interest in research that has the potential for real-world impact, and thus has a wide portfolio of applied projects that focus on working with e.g. European Commission, UK Government, local authorities, charities and NGOs, business and industry, etc.

 

Most notably for this post, we have led the €1m European Innovation Forum for energy-related Social Sciences and Humanities (Energy-SHIFTS <http://www.energy-shifts.eu/> , 2019-2021) and its €2m predecessor EU platform (SHAPE ENERGY <http://www.shapeenergy.eu/> , 2017-2019), and have recently been awarded coordination of the forthcoming €3m European Centre of Excellence for Social Sciences and Humanities research on climate, energy and mobility (SSH CENTRE, 2022-26). We are coordinating the newly launched €5m SHARED GREEN DEAL <http://www.sharedgreendeal.eu/>  (2022-2027), which is implementing 24 social experiments across Europe on Green Deal priority areas. We have also received funding from six of the seven UK Research Councils (ESRC, EPSRC, NERC, AHRC, BBSRC, STFC), for example being part of major UKRI centres such as the ESRC’s Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity <https://www.cusp.ac.uk/>  and EPSRC’s EnergyREV <https://www.energyrev.org.uk/> . 

 

The position

This is an exciting opportunity to build your own research portfolio in areas that are complementary to the GSI’s current research on the social studies of sustainability/energy transformations. You’ll start off as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, but there will be amble possibilities to continue progression up the research career ladder (to e.g. Senior Research Fellow; Principal Research Fellow or Associate Professor; Professor). Candidates will be expected to bring their own ideas for development, but will also be given the opportunity to collaborate with GSI colleagues on funding proposals already under development.

 

To help embed the new staff member within existing collaborations and networks, they will also be expected to contribute to an ongoing collaboration that builds on past work on a Sociology of Interdisciplinarity <https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-88455-0#toc> . Specifically, they will work with the Technical University of Denmark and ERA-Net institutions to investigate the roles of (sustainability) funding institutions in shaping research outcomes and policy recommendations, and vice versa. In particular, how are e.g. funder processes (e.g. call text formulation; evaluation procedures; project monitoring; etc.) shaping the subsequent research findings and forms of policy evidence being generated? And how do ideas and expectations of ‘interdisciplinarity’ fit within this, if at all?

 

Candidates will ideally have a Social Science PhD, from e.g. Sociology, Science & Technology Studies, Innovation Studies, Human Geography, Environmental Social Science, etc. Experience of qualitative research methods is required. Although not essential, experience of working across disciplines and of reflexively studying associated institutional processes, is especially welcomed.

 

Related information

*	Further details, including how to apply, can be found here: https://jobs.aru.ac.uk/vacancy/post-doctoral-research-fellow-interdisciplinary-sustainability-studies-473772.html 
*	Whilst flexible working arrangements are possible, the expectation is that the post-holder will have regular presence in Cambridge.

*	Informal enquiries prior to application are strongly encouraged, to chris.foulds at aru.ac.uk <mailto:chris.foulds at aru.ac.uk> .

 

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Best,

 

Dr Chris Foulds

Associate Professor

Global Sustainability Institute (GSI)

Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge, CB1 1PT, UK.

 

T: (+44) 1223 69 5112 | E:  <mailto:chris.foulds at anglia.ac.uk> chris.foulds at aru.ac.uk | Twitter:  <http://twitter.com/DrChrisFoulds> @DrChrisFoulds

 

Further info:  <http://www.anglia.ac.uk/global-sustainability-institute-gsi/about-us/people/chris-foulds> Personal webpage |  <https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-foulds-370162151/> LinkedIn |  <http://www.anglia.ac.uk/gsi/> GSI |  <http://www.anglia.ac.uk/global-sustainability-institute-gsi/research/consumption-and-change> GSI’s Consumption & Change

Selected projects:  <http://www.anglia.ac.uk/global-sustainability-institute-gsi/research/consumption-and-change/shape-energy> SHAPE ENERGY |  <https://www.anglia.ac.uk/news/anglia-ruskins-gsi-to-lead-1million-project?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=AngliaRuskin> Energy-SHIFTS |  <https://www.energyaccessandgender.co.uk/> Energy access & gender equity in the Global South |  <https://www.anglia.ac.uk/global-sustainability-institute-gsi/research/consumption-and-change/energy-pieces> Energy-PIECES |  <http://www.rring.eu/> RRING |  <http://www.energyinwater.eu/> Energy in Water

 

Recent selected publications:

 <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629621001778> The making of energy evidence: How exclusions of Social Sciences and Humanities are reproduced (and what researchers can do about it) (Energy Research & Social Science, 2021)

 <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S097308261930777X> Energy justice in the developing world: a review of theoretical frameworks, key research themes and policy implications (Energy for Sustainable Development, 2020)

 <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629619301586> Expanding the scope and implications of energy research: A guide to key themes from the Social Sciences and Humanities (Energy Research & Social Science, 2020)

 <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629619304785?dgcid=coauthor> Diversifying diversity: Inclusive engagement, intersectionality, and gender identity in a European Social Sciences and Humanities Energy research project (Energy Research & Social Science, 2020)

 <https://energy-shifts.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ApproachtoidentifyingfutureSSHenergyresearchpriorities.pdf> An approach to identifying future Social Sciences & Humanities energy research priorities for Horizon Europe: Working Group guidelines for systematic Horizon Scanning (Energy-SHIFTS, 2019)

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