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Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD studentship (3 years) in the Research Division of Energy and Sustainability to work as part of an interdisciplinary team on a UK-India renewable energy project. The project is funded by the Research Council UK and is based in the Faculty of Engineering, in collaboration with other UK and Indian...

0.6fte (ACT12-23) £31,331 - £36,298 per annum pro rata The Cartoon and Comic Arts degree at Staffordshire University is a new award that enables students to develop and define their skills in visual and narrative communication through specialist platforms including digital imaging, publication design and graphic novels, life...

One year fixed term full-time appointment: £16,799 - £17,286 per annum The College is currently seeking an Archives Assistant to take up post from September 2013. Duties will include assisting with the administration of the reading room and storage areas, providing an enquiry and reprographics service, supporting collection processing...

Ref: REQ13217 Closing date: 5 June 2013 Salary: Grade 6, £33,230 to £36,298 per annum or Grade 7, £37,382 to £44,607 per annum Research and teaching experience in Sustainable Building Design together with a good honours degree or equivalent in an appropriate discipline, a relevant PhD or other relevant experience...

Ref: CREQ13172 Closing date: 17 May 2013 Salary: £18,523 - £22,020 per annum (Part-time, 15 hours per week, fixed term until 30 April 2018) A self-motivated, flexible and enthusiastic individual is required to provide administrative support for a five-year EPSRC research programme. The Programme is part of a larger university...

Full Time Fixed term appointment for three years The National Institute for Health Research is supporting a major research programme into the microbiology of traumatic wound infection , within the Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre at Birmingham (SRMRC). As part of this expansion, we are seeking to recruit a...

There is limited knowledge of how vehicles are actually used in the field, for nominal and extremes of usage. The designs of vehicles are based on certain assumptions that have never been verified across a whole vehicle population; consequently vehicles are potentially non-optimally engineered. This becomes critical for electric vehicles where the effect...

Hybrid vehicles currently contain multiple individual cooling circuits for the different components, leading to extra weight, complexity and consequent efficiency losses on the vehicle. These components currently operate at different temperatures. There is little information about how the efficiencies of these components are affected by changes in...

PhD The dominant cost of electric and plug-in electric vehicles is the high voltage battery. Currently manufacturers are required to warrant this battery for a specified number of years, and at end of battery life this battery must be disposed of by the manufacturer. Opportunities exist to investigate the market for second-life (and subsequent) usage...

Faculty of Health Starting Salary: Grade 7, £30,424 An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Orthopaedic Department on a fixed term basis for 12 months initially, with a view to extend, for a Trauma & Orthopaedic Research Developer and Co-ordinator. The successful applicant will provide professional support to researchers and...