Research Associate (693730)

Research Associate with with a PhD level education, research and knowledge exchange interest and experience in public policy-facing energy research. Candidates should have broad understanding of the energy policy space and the ability to communicate complex academic research ideas to a non-expert audience written and verbal communication skills.

FTE: 1

Term: 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.

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 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.

For informal enquiries, please contact Reader and Deputy Director, CEP Jamie Fraser Speirs (jamie.speirs@strath.ac.uk)

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