Job: Knowledge Exchange
RESEARCH FELLOW IN KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE
School of Social Sciences
Salary: £38,896 to £41,255 per annum
The Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus
(CECAN) has been funded by the DECC, DEFRA, the Environment Agency,
ESRC, the Food Standards Agency and NERC with the aim of transforming
the evaluation of policy across the energy-environment-food
nexus to make it fit for a complex world. The Centre will be working
closely with these and other agencies and with evaluation practitioners
to develop, implement and test new methods, tools and techniques for
policy evaluation.
The Centre is a three year, multi-million pound project involving 8
UK universities, one in Europe and one in the US, and 5 companies and
institutes, as well as a potentially large group of individual
Fellows.
In order to establish and maintain close relations between the
Centre and its stakeholders, we are seeking a 'Knowledge Exchange
Manager'. This role is crucial to the success of the Centre, and
involves being responsible for ensuring that the Centre is
responsive to stakeholders' needs and constraints and that potential
users are aware of the work being done within the Centre. It would suit
someone who has a background in the social sciences, experience of
working in government social research, excellent
communication skills and the ability to provide an effective bridge
between the Centre's researchers, evaluation practitioners and policy
users.
This is a fixed term position until 31st August 2018. The post will
be located within the Department of Sociology at the University of
Surrey, Guildford, UK, but will involve frequent visits to the
co-funding agencies (DECC, DEFRA, EA, FSA). Further information
about the University and the Department of Sociology can be found at http://www.surrey.ac.uk/
Further details about the post can be found at http://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/