Postdoctoral Research Associate

The Role and Department

Durham Law School is one of the very best UK law schools with an outstanding reputation for excellence in teaching, research and employability of our students. Consistently ranked in the Top 10 nationally and Top 50 globally, it has been growing strongly over the past few years and now comprises a community of over 100 academics and professional support staff. 

The Law School now seeks to appoint a talented individual to the role of Post-Doctoral Research Associate (PDRA) as part of the Horizon Europe project Enabling Circular Value Chains via Production Digitisation and Human Empowerment (ENCIRCLE). Working with the PI, Dr Stergios Aidinlis, the PDRA is for a two-and-a-half-year duration (30 months), starting on the 1st of April 2025 and based in the Durham Law School.  

The project, bringing together a consortium of fifteen (15) organisations across Europe, adopts a multidisciplinary perspective in responsibly developing AI-enhanced and circular technologies that will empower business developers to formulate circular business cases and consumers to make eco-responsible choices. Durham’s role in the project is to conduct a legal, ethical and societal impact assessment of the ENCIRCLE technologies, ensure the integration of social sciences and humanities expertise in research and development activities and assist project partners in preparing for regulatory compliance under applicable legal frameworks.

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