Research Associate in Responsible Innovation and Greenhouse Gas Removal

[Rob Bellamy]

Hi everyone

I'm advertising a new 4-year postdoc at Manchester to work on responsible innovation and societal engagement around carbon removal, as part of the national Greenhouse Gas Removal Hub, CO2RE: https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=20656

Please share with anyone who you think might be interested!

Job reference: HUM-017253

Location: Oxford Road, Manchester

Closing date (DD/MM/YYYY): 06/09/2021

Salary: £32,816 to £40,322 per annum (depending on experience)

Employment type: Fixed Term

Faculty/Organisation: Humanities

School/ Directorate: Geography

Hours per week: full time

Contract Duration: Starting 1 October 2021 until 30 September 2025

The University of Manchester seeks to appoint an outstanding Research Associate to join Dr Rob Bellamy to undertake research on responsible innovation and societal engagement as it relates to greenhouse gas removal as part of the national Greenhouse Gas Removal (GGR) research hub, CO2RE.

The post holder will undertake a diverse set of research tasks including a comprehensive and systematic review of public engagement with GGR; deliberative workshops across the UK and a nationally representative survey; shaping a common approach to public engagement across the GGR programme; developing a ‘soft’ stage-gate process to ensure that responsible innovation is addressed; building responsible innovation capacity across the GGR programme; gathering public engagement data from across the GGR programme and provide an overall assessment of ‘social readiness’; and working with other work packages within the GGR hub to coordinate and oversee public engagement elsewhere in the hub.

The University invites applications for the above post which is tenable from 1 October 2021.

Applicants are requested to also submit a CV as part of their application, of no more than 3 pages in length.

Interviews will be held in September 2021.

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status.  All appointments are made on merit.

Blended working arrangements may be considered       

Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.

Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Name: Dr Rob Bellamy, Presidential Fellow in Climate & Society and Responsible Innovation Lead in CO2RE

Email: rob.b...@manchester.ac.uk

General enquiries:

Email: hrser...@manchester.ac.uk

Technical support:

https://jobseekersupport.jobtrain.co.uk/support/home

This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.

Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria