Imperial College London - Business School

Job Summary

Are you looking for an opportunity to study and experiment with innovative models of business enterprise for the creation of economic and social value? The Leonardo Centre at Imperial College Business School is seeking a Research Fellow to join its collaborative platform for knowledge specialists, working with executives, entrepreneurs, investors, value chain partners, unions, government institutions, local communities and NGOs.

The collaborative platform includes a dataset of published corporate sustainability initiatives to design and test the impact of change in the business enterprise. The overarching goal is to contribute to the development of an integrative, just and sustainable model of economic and social development by discovering, testing and diffusing new logics of the enterprise.

You will be responsible for:

• Research design and grant writing
• Engagement of business organisations and/or stakeholders in the public and private domains to pursue knowledge co-development and field experimentation
• Data collection through a broad array of (qualitative or quantitative) methodologies,
• Advanced data analysis and visualisation techniques.
• Reporting of results in various formats and for different audiences
• Publication in leading academic journals, independently or in collaboration with faculty

Essential requirements include:

• PhD in scientific domains relevant to the study of corporate sustainability
• Experience in engaging business organisations and/or stakeholders in public and private domains to pursue knowledge co-development and field experimentation
• Evidence of successful project completion and publication in top scholar journals
• Experience of participation in multi-disciplinary, large scale, collaborative studies involving non-academic partners (businesses, policy institutions, NGOs, etc.)
• Diverse methodological skills, spanning qualitative and quantitative designs and analytical approaches, including simulations with systems dynamics and/or agent-based modelling.
• Cognitive flexibility to apply personal skills to diverse empirical phenomena
• Value alignment with the overall mission of the Leonardo Centre

Further Information

The post is for a fixed term until 31 October 2023, with the possibility of renewal for an additional two years (subject to funding).

Candidates must complete an online application on Imperial College’s jobs website. CVs alone will not be accepted.

Should you require any further details on the role please contact Virginia Harris [email protected]

For technical issues when applying online please email [email protected]

The College is a proud signatory to the San-Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which means that in hiring and promotion decisions, we evaluate applicants on the quality of their work, not the journal impact factor where it is published. For more information, see https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/about-imperial-research/research-evaluation/

The College believes that the use of animals in research is vital to improve human and animal health and welfare. Animals may only be used in research programmes where their use is shown to be necessary for developing new treatments and making medical advances. Imperial is committed to ensuring that, in cases where this research is deemed essential, all animals in the College’s care are treated with full respect, and that all staff involved with this work show due consideration at every level.

http://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/about-imperial-research/research-integrity/animal-research/ 

Imperial College is committed to equality of opportunity, to eliminating discrimination and to creating an inclusive working environment. We are an Athena SWAN Silver award winner, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident Employer and work in partnership with GIRES to promote respect for trans people.

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