Job opportunity
The UCL Energy Institute’s UCL BEAMS (B04) Department is looking for a hybrid (20%-80% on site) full-time Senior Research Fellow. The candidate will lead work supporting regional actors in Africa to identify their risks and opportunities in relation to international shipping’s decarbonisation, and understand how this is connected to UN/IMO
The UCL Energy Institute’s UCL BEAMS (B04) Department is looking for a hybrid (20%-80% on site) full-time Senior Research Fellow.
The candidate will lead work supporting regional actors in Africa to identify their risks and opportunities in relation to international shipping’s decarbonisation, and understand how this is connected to UN/IMO negotiations on GHG mitigation and climate finance. The role is undertaken with support from the shipping research group, led by Dr Tristan Smith and Dr Nishatabbas Rehmatulla. The individual will also be responsible for developing new areas of inquiry (social or physical sciences) around national/regional action (national action plans), relating to energy/fuel development, port infrastructure, fleet and trade development policy mechanisms. The individual will support the group’s work across different policy forums and stakeholder groups, and help with the generation and dissemination of evidence to key decision makers, including to help create impact from the group’s research. The successful applicant will work in a multi-disciplinary team and where appropriate also support a number of ongoing commercial and policy consultancy projects and relationships with collaborators and funders. They should have an enthusiasm for working in multidisciplinary environments alongside physical scientists, social scientists and economists to achieve joint research goals, as well as supporting MSc programmes and PhD students in the Energy Institute and shipping group.
The candidate will have a PhD degree in one of the following disciplines: business and economics, sustainability and environmental design, engineering, transport or energy studies, have a commensurate research and practice-based experience, which includes social science research methods in the context of sustainability and energy research. The candidate will have in depth knowledge of national/regional/global policy aspects related to the maritime sector and experience of engaging with policy stakeholders at the political and technical levels, especially in Africa.
Application deadline: 11 March 2024