Location: | Cardiff |
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Salary: | £39,347 to £44,263 per annum (Grade 6) |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 26th June 2024 |
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Closes: | 17th July 2024 |
Job Ref: | 18330BR |
The Welsh School of Architecture (WSA) is seeking to appoint a highly motivated Research Associate.
This role will be embedded within The Centre for a Low Carbon Built Environment (LCBE) based at the WSA but will work very closely with Trivallis Housing Association. Bringing their experience on low carbon solution and the UK housing stock, the successful candidate will work with colleagues at WSA with long term experience of the different stages of retrofitting as well as being embedded within a team who are carrying out ground-breaking research across the retrofit process.
The successful candidate will review and assess processes and assets currently in place at Trivallis including:
Through these activities the successful candidate will identify areas for improvement and development to enhance the delivery of future programmes of work for both new build and retrofit homes. Trivallis will ensure that the learning and development will help to push forwards towards Net Zero whilst providing safe, warm, affordable homes for residents. Outcomes will be shared with the wider housing sector across the UK to enable other organisations to learn from the research.
For informal enquiries about the post please contact Professor Jo Patterson (Director of Research) Patterson@Cardiff.ac.uk.
This post is full-time and available immediately. This post is fixed-term for 12 months.
Salary: £39,347- £44,263 per annum (Grade 6).
Appointments to roles at Cardiff University are usually made at bottom of scale.
This post has previously been advertised to employees of Cardiff University only. We now invite external applications.
Please be aware that Cardiff University reserves the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received.
Cardiff University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. We believe this can be achieved through attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds who have the ambition to create a University which seeks to fulfil our social, cultural and economic obligation to Cardiff, Wales, and the world. In supporting our employees to achieve a balance between their work and their personal lives, we will also consider proposals for flexible working or job share arrangements.
Cardiff University is a signatory to the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which means that in hiring and promotion decisions we will evaluate applicants on the quality of their research, not publication metrics or the identity of the journal in which the research is published. More information is available at: Responsible research assessment - Research - Cardiff University.
Applications may be submitted in Welsh, and an application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.
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