As we celebrate our 200th year of Manchester Met, we are delighted to be launching our ‘Third Century Fellowship Scheme’.
The Fellowship Scheme is aimed at exceptional researchers, in the early stages of their post-doctoral career, who aim to make their mark in the field of independent research. You will have extensive experience and a notable track record of research outputs in your area of research.
What are we offering as part of the Third Century Fellowship Scheme?
By joining our Fellowship Scheme, you’ll play a leading part in our global research offering and join our community, working collaboratively across multidisciplinary and diverse teams with state-of-the-art facilities and work environment.
Successful applicants will benefit from:
During the term of the fellowship, you will be publishing internationally excellent and world-leading outputs and will be pursuing external funding opportunities to realise your future research ambitions. You will also have the opportunity, when relevant, to prepare and deliver short courses.
The Scheme begins with an initial appointment to a fixed-term post with the expectation to transition to a permanent Senior Lecturer or as a Reader, after three years, dependant on your performance and potential as assessed through the scheme.
These fellowship opportunities are being offered across our four faculties: Science & Engineering, Arts & Humanities, Business & Law and Health & Education. We will be making up to 15 appointments onto the cohort, based on application and assessment performance, and best fit to our preferred areas of research, across our four faculties.
Further details about the fellowship and research areas can be found here
You can explore our Fellowship Opportunity in Fashion Technologies, below.
Manchester Fashion Institute (MFI) at Manchester Metropolitan:
Manchester Fashion Institute is a leading global fashion school making contributions in teaching and research across fashion disciplines that include design, cultures and heritage, communication, business and technology. We are leading the way in research across a range of fashion technologies to explore applied solutions to the sustainability challenge. Our research activity in this space includes the world leading Robotics Living Lab (RoLL), design for circularity, closed loop manufacturing, digital design, reshoring of manufacturing/supply chain and sustainable consumption. We bring together talent and industry, creativity and technology, experience and intuition.
The research group in Manchester Fashion Institute aims to advance critical fashion thinking and practice around cutting-edge topics such as ethics, diversity, sustainability, digital innovation, supply chains, and consumption, with a focus on fashion as a force for good in society at large. The Fashion research group is made up of 3 broad thematic priorities, with cross-cutting themes of sustainability, digital, and EDI, with groups of researchers primarily working on:
About the role:
About the candidate:
You will join the coalesced around the Robotics Living Lab and/or further into the broader sustainability theme with a view to leading on complementary areas of research. With a deep understanding of robotics and cobot developments and new fashion technologies, you will have established networks across industry. You will also have insight and understanding of the reshoring and/or sustainability policy agenda.
Requirements:
Please refer to the Job Description & Person Specification for a full list of essential & desirable criteria.
Academic Contact: Prof Liz Barnes (l.barnes@mmu.ac.uk) to discuss the fellowship opportunity in detail.
Closing Date: 29 May 2024
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us on researchfellowships@mmu.ac.uk
To return to the main fellowship page, click here
With over 4,200 staff members and around 39,000 students, we are a big institution with even bigger ambitions.
Besuchen Sie die Arbeitgeberseite