Overview

We are thrilled to offer an exciting opportunity for two enthusiastic researchers to join our Sustainability Assessment Team at the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures (GCSF).

The Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures at The University of Sheffield brings collaborators together across academic disciplines, business, and policy to create knowledge that will deliver global health, prosperity, and wellbeing within planetary boundaries. The centre runs a programme of systemic and interdisciplinary research on intractable problems. For further details about the GCSF, please visit our website at http://grantham.sheffield.ac.uk/

Your role will be to undertake research in the GCSF Sustainability Assessment Team on processes and methodologies and support the wide range of sustainability research that needs quantitative analysis. Your work will develop the materials, processes and technology needed to transform the material economy, bringing together the critical mass needed to realise the benefits of a circular economy.

Both researchers will carry out a variety of sustainability assessments, across projects in plastics to clean energy and hydrogen to agriculture. The two roles will have slightly different focus and background skills:

  1. One position will focus on economics, technoeconomic assessment and life cycle costing.
  2. The second post will focus on environmental assessment, which may include life cycle assessment, environmental risk assessment and mas flow analysis.

Criteria:

  • Ph.D. or equivalent experience in Material Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Environmental Science, Sustainability, Economics or related fields.
  • Knowledge and experience in: life cycle environmental assessment, emissions accounting or other topics and tools of Industrial Ecology and/or modelling and resource analysis and/or economics, life cycle costing and technoeconomics.
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to effectively
    collaborate within an interdisciplinary team and present complex information to diverse stakeholders.
  • Evidence of potential to produce high-quality research outputs and experience of developing own models and tools.
  • Experience of managing own workload, balancing multiple projects, sticking to deadlines and the ability to constantly update knowledge.
  • Ability to develop creative approaches to scientific problem solving, often based on the latest developments in the field as described in the scientific literature.
  • Experience of developing and maintaining a network of contacts throughout own work area.
  • Prior experience of research projects in the biomaterials, energy or healthcare spaces is desirable.

We are a Disability Confident Employer. If you have a disability and meet the essential criteria you will be invited to interview.

It is anticipated that the selection process will take place in the week commencing 25th November. This will consist of an interview including a short presentation. We plan to let candidates know if they have progressed to the selection stage later the same week. Contact cberecruiters@sheffield.ac.uk if you require any reasonable adjustments.

For informal enquiries about this job contact Stuart Walker, Senior Research Fellow in Sustainability Assessment: on s.r.walker@sheffield.ac.uk

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