DURHAM UNIVERSITY: Coverage Fellow (Clear Maritime Analysis)

The Position and Division

Durham College has been profitable in securing funding to guide a UK Clear Maritime Analysis Hub and is searching for a Coverage Fellow to behave as the important thing hyperlink between the research consortium, UK authorities and different stakeholders.

The research hub will coordinate a significant programme of research exercise geared toward understanding speed up the decarbonisation and elimination of dangerous air pollution for the maritime sector. The challenge presents a significant alternative for research to tell future coverage on this space in any respect ranges and as such will want assist to attach research and coverage agendas.

The Coverage Fellow (Clear Maritime Analysis) will play an vital position in guaranteeing that research exercise is knowledgeable by the pursuits and priorities of key coverage and business stakeholders, by way of intelligence gathering and dissemination, stakeholder engagement and facilitation and can intention to work with companions to develop actionable coverage suggestions underpinned by the research findings geared toward nationwide, regional and native Authorities, Business and regulators. They would be the main level of liaison between the research consortium and the most important stakeholders, together with Division for Transport and the UK SHORE workforce, business our bodies, native authorities and a broad vary of different events. A key duty can be coordinating a coverage discussion board, which is able to carry collectively these stakeholders recurrently to interact with the research programme and develop collaborative working practices.

The Coverage Fellow can be line managed from Durham College’s Analysis and Innovation Companies Division however will work flexibly throughout the consortium of companions to grasp research strengths, partaking carefully with the tasks supported by way of the hub to determine and promote coverage insights and studying. The position is mounted time period for 3 years and open to hybrid working and versatile location, though there could be an expectation of being in Durham regularly. The place would probably swimsuit a secondment from a associated coverage position, however earlier coverage expertise isn’t essentially a prerequisite. We’d welcome curiosity from folks with expertise of fresh energy, transport or environmental coverage or different related areas.