Research Assistant or Research Fellow in Digital Energy Systems Modelling

School of Water, Energy and Environment

Energy and Power / Centre for Energy Systems and Strategy

Research Assistant (if close to completing PhD) or Research Fellow (if PhD obtained) in Digital Energy Systems Modelling

Fixed Term Contract for 30 months

Flexible working will be actively considered

£33,809 per annum (Research Fellow) or

£30,600 per annum (Research Assistant)

Location: Cranfield, Bedfordshire

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About the Role

Your role will be to contribute to the modelling of cyber security risks as the interaction of individual choices and organisational policy and practices associated with digitisation of services in energy, housing and health domains. You will work on an EPSRC-funded (£3.4M) project, Protecting Minority Ethnic Communities Online (PRIME). The PRIME project aims to broaden understanding of online harm and how it can be mitigated through new systems, tools and processes by focusing on Minority Ethnic (ME) communities' experiences of digitalised services, particularly in the areas of housing, health and energy. We will draw on knowledge, methods and skills from social policy, cyber security and privacy, data mining and machine learning; human computer interaction, applied linguistics and educational technology. Working closely with National Research Centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence online (REPHRAIN (https://www.rephrain.ac.uk ) the PRIME consortium includes researchers from Heriot-Watt, Glasgow, York, Cranfield, and Open Universities, and it will engage with a wide range of individuals from ME communities, community organisations, public agencies and energy suppliers to identify and categorise the nature of the harms experienced, and assess the adequacy of existing systems and processes to counter them.

About You

You will be educated to doctoral level in modelling of energy behaviours and choices and have experience of developing agent based models with a particular focus on understanding of cyber security risks as the interaction of individual choices and organisational policy and practices. With excellent team-working and inter-personal skills, you will have peer reviewed journal publication record.

About Us

Cranfield Energy and Power is one of eight themes at Cranfield University offering world-class and niche post-graduate level research, education, training and consultancy. Providing a sustainable, secure and affordable energy supply is fundamentally important to our lives. Cranfield is advancing the potential solutions in energy and power to ensure our future needs are met.

As one of the four centres within Energy and Power, Centre for Energy Systems and Strategy (CESS) pioneers multi-disciplinary approach by bringing together energy and power systems modelling, digital tools (peer to peer trading, AI), social, policy and regulatory aspects of energy transitions, with a focus on simulation and modelling.

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We aim to create and maintain a culture in which everyone can work and study together and realise their full potential. Find out about our key commitments to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and Flexible Working here . We are currently piloting hybrid working arrangements until May 2022. This means the majority of our staff are spending between 40% and 60% of their time working from the office where job roles allow.

How to apply

For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Dr Nazmiye Ozkan, Reader in Energy Economics and Head of Centre for Energy Systems and Strategy, on (T): +44 (0)1234 75 4296 or (E): [email protected]

Apply online now . Please do not hesitate to contact us for further details on E: [email protected] Please quote reference number 3956.

Closing date for receipt of applications: 22 March 2022