Research Fellow in Business Models for Digital Circular Economy
- Employer
- CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY
- Location
- Cranfield, United Kingdom
- Salary
- £37,337 per annum
- Closing date
- 12 Feb 2025
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- Academic Discipline
- Business & Management, Business & Economics
- Job Type
- Academic Posts, Research Fellowships
- Contract Type
- Fixed Term
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
Faculty or Department: Faculty of Business and Management
Based at: Cranfield Campus, Cranfield, Bedfordshire
Hours of work: 37 hours per week, normally worked Monday to Friday. Flexible working will be considered.
Contract type: Fixed term contract
Fixed Term Period: Until 31 October 2027
Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range of £37,337 per annum
Apply by: 12/02/2025
Role Description
This is an exciting full-time opportunity to join our team, contribute to impactful research and develop valuable skills to build your career.
The successful candidate will contribute to the three-year project “Robotic triage for value retention in a circular economy (RoboTriage)” funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
About the Role
Responsibilities for the successful candidate will include:
- Conducting research, developing objectives and delivering outputs independently, under the guidance of the project leader.
- Collecting and analysing data using methods such as case studies, interviews, surveys and literature reviews.
- Undertaking management/administration arising from research.
- Presenting and disseminating research findings as outputs, including drafting academic publications or parts thereof, posters at conferences, seminars, or workshops.
- Contributing to research- and teaching- related activities and administration.
- Supervising students on research-related work and guiding PhD students where appropriate.
- Contributing to writing bids for research funding.
- Dealing with problems that may affect the achievement of research objectives and deadlines.
- Promoting equality and diversity, acting as a role model, and fostering an inclusive working culture.
About You
You will have a PhD in relevant research fields or equivalent qualifications. You will also have strong skills in qualitative and quantitative research, and you will be able to provide evidence of independent contribution to research design and execution. You should have strong academic writing, project management, and analytical skills, and the ability to communicate complex information clearly. You should be able to demonstrate effective collaboration with academic and industrial partners, and fluency in relevant techniques and methods, with the ability to develop new ones. You will also show an understanding of broader management/administration processes, and will be highly organized, detail-oriented, and capable of coordinating work to avoid conflict or duplication.
The successful candidate will be hosted at the Sustainable Business Group of the Centre for Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability, while being supported by the Centre for Logistics, Procurement & Supply Chain Management.
About the Project
RoboTriage is led by researchers from University of Birmingham, Cranfield University, and the Manufacturing Technology Centre, working closely with over 12 industrial partners. The project will address one of the most critical challenges in circular economy (CE) landscape: many CE activities fail to fully capture the potential value of products, components, and materials. Rather than being repaired, reused, or remanufactured, a significant number of products end up in mixed waste streams and are recycled, which is the least valuable end-of-life CE option, leading to substantial loss of residual value.
The project proposes circularity triage, the process of rapidly examining products, components and parts to determine their best CE option. The project will develop robotic systems that can perform circularity triage by capturing the health condition data of used products, allowing a swift evaluation that recommends the highest-value CE options to avoid mixed waste streams. The Cranfield team will lead the CE theme, investigating the science of circularity triage, developing triage criteria and circularity scoring system, modelling and optimizing sustainable value and developing business models for circularity triage.
About Us
As a specialist postgraduate university, Cranfield’s world-class expertise, large-scale facilities and unrivalled industry partnerships create leaders in technology and management globally. Learn more about Cranfield and our unique impact here.
Our Values and Commitments
Our shared, stated values help to define who we are and underpin everything we do: Ambition; Impact; Respect; and Community. Find out more here.
We aim to create and maintain a culture in which everyone can work and study together and realise their full potential. We are a Disability Confident Employer and proud members of the Stonewall Diversity Champions Programme. We are committed to actively exploring flexible working options for each role and have been ranked in the Top 30 family friendly employers in the UK by the charity Working Families. Find out more about our key commitments to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and Flexible Working here.
Working Arrangements
Collaborating and connecting are integral to so much of what we do. Our Working Arrangements Framework provides many staff with the opportunity to flexibly combine on-site and remote working, where job roles allow, balancing the needs of our community of staff, students, clients and partners.
How to apply
For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Dr Miying Yang, Reader in Sustainability, on (E): miying.yang@cranfield.ac.uk, or Professor Emel Aktas, Chair in Supply Chain Analytics, on (E): emel.aktas@cranfield.ac.uk.
Please do not hesitate to contact us for further details on E: peoplerecruitment@cranfield.ac.uk. Please quote reference number 4998.
Closing date for receipt of applications: 12 February 2025
Company
Cranfield is world-leading in its contribution to global innovation. With our emphasis on the aerospace, agrifood, defence and security, environmental technology, leadership and management, manufacturing and transport systems sectors, we have changed the way society thinks, works and learns.
We generate and transform knowledge, translating it to the benefit of society. Our partners, from micro SMEs to the largest blue-chip multinationals, from governments across the world to NGOs and charities, tell us this is what they value about Cranfield.
Innovation is part of Cranfield’s ‘corporate DNA’, evolved over 60 years of commitment to this agenda.
Our work informs policy for governments and produces new technologies and products for the world of commerce. We draw on this pool of research and consultancy to provide our students with a distinctive ‘real-world’ learning environment, allowing them to develop as professionals and transfer their new knowledge to the global economy. This has always been the ‘Cranfield way’ but it has never been more important than in today’s world.
People are key to our competitive advantage and so we need to attract, develop and retain the best talent for our business. We aim to create a culture where you can flourish and succeed and, in turn, contribute towards Cranfield’s success.
- Telephone
- +(44)01234 750111
- Location
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CRANFIELD
CRANFIELD
BEDFORDSHIRE
MK43 0AL
GB
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