Senior Research Fellow in Business Transformation

The Senior Research Fellow role is equivalent to a typical Assistant Professor role you may find in other business schools.

Nottingham Business School (NBS) at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is internationally recognised as one of the world’s leading business schools, providing education and research that combines academic excellence with impact on business and society.  NBS is quadruple crown+ school by (EQUIS, AACSB, SBC, and EFMD Accreditation) as well as being a UN’s PRME Champion.

One of the most vibrant research environments in the UK, we have nine world-leading research centres, including the Centre for Business and Industry Transformation (CBIT).

About CBIT

This is a fantastic opportunity to join the newly established and highly dynamic and exciting Centre for Business and Industry Transformation (https://www.ntu.ac.uk/research/groups-and-centres/centres/cbit-centre-for-business-and-industry-transformation). CBIT is established by the team who has created the top-ranked entrepreneurship education programme in the UK (by Eduniversal), with a legacy of accelerating over 100+ innovative businesses.

Leveraging its £6.5m+ research funding portfolio, CBIT is a unique initiative that integrates Business Transformation research rigor into transformative Venture Building practice and disruptive leader education.

What you’ll do

You will be a founding member of the CBIT, acting as a research lead. You will be contributing to the entire academic excellence of the centre, but especially own the research agenda for corporate entrepreneurship and business (digital) transformation. You will be embedding academic methodology and rigour in business transformation practice.

You will be expected to lead and deliver high-quality publications, secure research funding, knowledge transfer partnership grants or third-stream income as appropriate, supervise research students and contribute to the department’s research and external engagement strategy.

Who you are

You are passionate about transforming business and industry through academic-industry collaboration. You will have contributed to a range of inter/multidisciplinary research activities in the fields related to business and industry transformation from one of the tracks

You will have demonstrated early authority for the quality and impact of research and education activities, as well as a developed international profile in your fields of expertise.

You have a positive attitude, and wish to be part of a forward-looking Centre, a great business school community, and a caring University that prides itself on being an inclusive employer that has a strong reputation for supporting developing colleagues and their potential. 

For an informal discussion about this role, please contact Centre Director Professor Xiao Ma ([email protected] )) 

This role is open to non-UK/Irish applicants subject to current UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) rules. Please ensure that you have the appropriate right to work in the UK for this role and consult the Home Office website for further information.

We’re proud of how far we’ve come. With a shared vision, we are a community of more than 4,000 colleagues, all committed to our goal of becoming ‘the university of the future’. Do you have the passion to help us to go even further? www.ntu.ac.uk

Please note that this role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974) and successful applicants will be asked to declare any unspent criminal convictions.