Research Associate for Additive Manufacture

Surrey Business School is a leading business school ranked in the top 10 for business and economics in the United Kingdom by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023 by subject. Our results in the Research Excellence Framework 2021 place us 19^th overall in the UK, 10^th in the UK for research outputs and 16^th in the UK for research impact. The School’s strengths are particularly in digital innovation and technological transformation, international business, leadership and organizational psychology, and business analytics. 

We are seeking to recruit a UK based individual short-term, part-time post-doctoral research associate (PDRA) to help end of project deliverables. You will be part of a research project, named “Responsive Additive Manufacture to Overcome Natural and Attack-based disruption” (RAMONA) funded through a Responsive Manufacturing research grant EP/V051040/1 from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The University of Surrey and Bristol University Business School are developing the work on resilient supply chain for additive manufacturing for the project.

If interested please do apply immediately as we will undertake interviews on a rolling basis and recruit when we find a suitable candidate.

Due to the short-term nature of the position, we cannot support visa applications and only those already in the UK with permission to work in the UK can be considered.

What you’ll be doing 

You will have expertise in resilient supply. The research objective for this role is to some work that shows integration across the broader project (AM tagged objects, cyber security, and modelling supply chain resilience), which together enables a resilient responsive additive manufacturing system to detect and respond to internal and external factors caused by malicious or natural events.

• Working in close collaboration with Co-I from Bristol and researchers from across the group of partner firms, alongside academics who have expertise in AM and cybersecurity. 
• Work needs to be synthesised into journal articles. The perspective taken will depend on your skills, but outputs a published output is important both for the project and your own CV. 

Who Are We Looking For?

An academic with knowledge of supply chain resilience, ideally with additive manufacturing. Previous academic experience publishing in academic journals in an applicable area of academia is essential.

The position is 0.2 FTE and ends 30 September 2024

If you would like to discuss the position informally, please send us an email and we'd be excited to discuss the project further with you. To apply please attached a CV and cover letter evidencing your suitability for the role as outlined in job description.

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