Salary range: £63,673
- £67,541
FTE: 1.0
Term: Open-ended
Closing date: 29/01/2023
Reader in Energy
Policy and Deputy Director of the Centre for Energy Policy
The Centre for Energy Policy, based in the School of Government and Public Policy within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University
of Strathclyde works with research, government and industry partners to understand and
address the pressing public policy challenge of enabling sustainable and
prosperous transitions to mid-century Net Zero targets. Launched in 2015 under
the leadership of the Centre Director, Professor
Karen Turner, CEP has an established track record of
independent, rigorous and multidisciplinary research focused on understanding
the wider economy consequences of taking various decarbonisation actions in
different economic contexts and timeframes. The Centre was founded with the
aim of generating knowledge and evidence that can play an essential part in
identifying economically, socially and politically feasible policy pathways to
deliver the Net Zero transition. As part of the School of Government and
Public Policy, ranked first across the
UK for its research quality in politics and international studies in REF 2021
(where CEP contributed a 4* Impact Case Study), the Centre is
committed to achieving real-world impacts. CEP has already helped shape UK and
Scottish Government policy in areas including energy efficiency, industrial
decarbonisation, heat decarbonisation and low carbon transport and has a
regular regional and national media presence.
We are seeking an
impact-focused Reader (from any disciplinary background and interest that
complements CEP’s current activity and wider public policy impact focus) with
research, knowledge exchange and postgraduate teaching/training interest and
experience to join CEP to play a key role in expanding our portfolio and
further build our team. It is essential that candidates have a good
honours degree and PhD (or equivalent) in appropriate discipline and can
evidence a profile as an externally recognised authority with an established
national and emerging international reputation, alongside extending CEP’s
reach through building and exploiting policy, industry and other external
networks, and engaging in regular media engagement.
Another priority is
the recruitment of new PhD students and building multi-disciplinary CDT
activity, and possibly extending our offerings to linked postgraduate teaching
and professional training. Crucial to this second senior academic role in CEP
will generally be supporting the intellectual leadership of the CEP team and
support the Director in high level policy and public engagement, where the
successful applicant will be invited to take on the role of Deputy Director of
the Centre.
Informal enquiries about the post can be directed to Professor Karen Turner, Director
of the Centre for Energy Policy, at karen.turner@strath.ac.uk).
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