Location: | Nottingham |
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Salary: | £37,458 to £42,135 p.a. (pro rata). Grade H |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 26th April 2024 |
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Closes: | 10th May 2024 |
Job Ref: | 550508 |
The contract is fixed term, initially for 6.5 months
About the Role
As a Research fellow you will be working mainly on the research in the development of new materials (including graphene and other materials) and digital fabrication (e.g., inkjet printing) for smart wearable electronics textiles, sustainable textiles and fibre-reinforced polymer composites. The post holder is expected to support bidding activities in these exciting areas of research.
As an international fellow, you will have a curiosity and range of interests that may include (but not exclusive to) new materials, wearable -textiles, inkjet printing, sustainable textiles, fibre-reinforced composites, textiles recycling, coating, printing, textiles, product design, electronics, manufacturing, and materials science. You will have a combination of visual, technical and creative skills, are adaptable, willing to fail, try new technologies and work outside your comfort zone.
You will be responsible for initiating new projects, nurturing ideas and mentoring students. You will establish new network groups, bringing together different research groups and laboratories developing research bids, fellowship applications, seminars and symposia, exhibitions and portfolios, working with local outreach and international communities, and enhancing the impact and dissemination of research.
As a researcher, you will need to demonstrate a portfolio of internationally significant outputs, for example, as high-quality journal papers, inventions and conference presentations.
For more details, please take a look at the role profile. We'll still consider applications even if you don't meet every single one of the requirements, so don't be put off if you don't match them perfectly.
About Us
Research in the Fashion and Textile Research Centre is creative, critical and courageous. Working across interconnecting research groups and drawing on an array of creative, technical and theoretical expertise, our boundary-crossing researchers generate new understandings of past, present and future fashion and textile systems.
The Fashion and Textile Research Centre makes a significant contribution to research within Nottingham School of Art & Design and to the university-wide research themes. We are happy to receive email enquiries from prospective collaborators and postgraduate research students.
For any informal queries about the role or the team, please contact Professor Nazmul Karim (Professor of Advanced Textiles) at nazmul.karim@ntu.ac.uk.
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