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Research Fellow in Resource Recovery from Waste

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This is a demanding and challenging role for a highly-motivated research professional with a passion for interdisciplinary scholarship that involves Engineering, Environmental Science and Economics. Your role will be to provide modelling expertise for C-VORR: a £1.2M NERC/ESRC project investigating the flow and recovery of ‘complex’ value through systems that currently produce waste, considering technical, environmental, social and health dimensions of value as well as economic (part of the Resource Recovery from Waste [RRfW] portfolio, see http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/funded/programmes/waste/for more details).

Your primary role will be to help deliver the objectives of workstream 1 in the CVORR project. For each case study system, input and output flows of products and co-products will be identified. Each of these flows will be assigned a multidimensional specific value (£, eCO2, health impact etc.) per unit quantity (kg, m3, item etc.) by using an appropriate valuation method for each dimension. Technical or social interventions can then be modelled and the resultant change in complex value assessed. Interventions will be ranked on a case by case basis, drawing on MCDA, to identify those that best minimise dissipation of value into wastes. Development of this model will draw on approaches from LCA, MFA and related process modelling techniques, complemented by a macro approach based on Input-Output analysis (IO) of resource consumption and environmental consequences of waste disposals. There will be significant cross-over with the other workstreams in the project (Dynamics and uncertainty; Data gathering and archiving; Complex value theory development).

We expect you to have aPhD in a relevant scientific, engineering or other numerate discipline, or in an interdisciplinary area such as Infrastructure, Waste Management, Cities, Industrial Ecology and/or Ecological Economics. You will also have experience of data collection and applying mathematical models to engineering situations and an understanding of material flows in systems.

The University of Leeds’ commitment to women in science has been recognised with a national accolade. The Faculty of Engineering has been awarded the Athena SWAN Silver Award and the University holds the Bronze Award in recognition of our success in recruiting, retaining and developing/promoting women in Science, Engineering and Technology (SET).

The University offers generous terms and conditions of employment, a wide range of benefits, services, facilities and family friendly policies. Full details are available on the Human Resources web pages accessible at www.leeds.ac.uk/hr/index.htm

Informal enquires to Professor Phil Purnell, Chair of Materials and Structures tel. +44 (0)113 343 0370, email p.purnell@leeds.ac.uk.

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