Research Fellow in Sustainable Analytics

Full-time: 35 hours per week - Open to consideration of part-time or flexible working patterns

Fixed-term: for 9 months (1st April 2024 – 31st December 2024)

We wish to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to engage in research on Access to Finance for Small Businesses and Climate Change for 9 months.

The opportunity:

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sustainable Analytics

We wish to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to engage in research on Access to Finance for Small Businesses and Climate Change for 9 months. This project is part of the ESRC project “Understanding how constraints on access to finance and under-investment impact on productivity growth in smaller firms”. The candidate will work closely with academics from eight UK universities (University of Edinburgh, Oxford Brooks, Warwick, St Andrews, Bath, Leeds, Birmingham and Sussex). The candidate will develop innovative statistical techniques to analyse data on access to finance for small businesses and capturing the effects of climate change on credit risk for small businesses. The candidate will collaborate with several institutions, such as the Bank of England and the European Commission, on Sustainable Analytics, for example the effects of climate change and extreme weather events on credit risk.

This post is full-time (35 hours per week), however, we are open to considering part-time or flexible working patterns. We are also open to considering requests for hybrid working (on a non-contractual basis) that combines a mix of remote and regular on-campus working.

Your skills and attributes for success:

A PhD (or close to completion) in Statistics, Operations Research, Computational Sciences or Economics, Management Science or closely related field Courses in data science.

Required skills for this role are:

• Experience of designing and performing data analyses.
• Excellent programming skills in R or Python.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrable ability to publish in high quality peer-reviewed, academic journals.

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