Thank you for your interest in one of three professorial roles in the Faculty of Engineering & Design at the University of Bath; one of the most innovative and high performing universities in the UK and currently The Times and Sunday Times ‘Good University Guide’ University of the Year 2023. We are consistently ranked in the Top 10 in the country with a strong local presence and a broad international profile. The University has a clear strategy and ambitious agenda for the future, and the Faculty of Engineering & Design is central to delivering on that agenda.
The Faculty is a vibrant and diverse community with real strength in breadth, comprising four departments: Architecture & Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electronic & Electrical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.
There is a strong research culture across the Faculty, with interdisciplinary research excellence combined with cross-University initiatives, responding effectively to global challenges. We submitted nine impact case studies to the Engineering Unit of Assessment in REF2021 and 100% of our impact was ranked world leading or internationally excellent. We have also sustained success in recruiting students and provide high quality, research-informed teaching with an excellent student experience, enhanced by an exceptional placements programme.
The Faculty of Engineering & Design is implementing a new research strategy by re-organising its research around large, multidisciplinary Centres with the critical mass and support to develop large research initiatives to address the environmental, economic, and social research grand challenges faced by humanity. The new centres will have appropriate human, financial and capital resources.
We are now seeking to appoint three Professors into the new Centres: a Professor of Materials, a Professor of Bioengineering and a Professor of Sustainable Energy (Hydrogen). These new roles will be at the centre of the University’s research strategy and the successful candidates will have the opportunity to work with our existing research leaders in these fields. The creation of the new Centres and the appointment of these three Professors represents our investment in, and ongoing commitment to, continuing to produce world leading research in materials, bioengineering and sustainable energy (hydrogen).
These three new posts reflect the ongoing commitment in the Faculty to attract the best and the brightest to us. We are open to discussions around coming to Bath possibly with colleague(s) to enable a seamless and stronger transition. While demonstration of an outstanding track record in research is important, the potential for such achievement in future is crucial, opening the possibility for someone who wishes to make an accelerated move to Full Professor. These posts should suit anyone ambitious for an excellent research-focused career in academia.
You can find out more about the University, the Faculty of Engineering & Design and the roles on this website, and our advising consultants at Anderson Quigley would be pleased to discuss the roles with you.
I do hope you will express an interest in joining the University at this exciting time as we launch our new Research Centres.
Fifty years of achievement have seen the University of Bath grow into a globally recognised institution with over 19,000 students from 147 countries. We believe in offering our students a well rounded education: high quality teaching from research-led academics; placements as an integral part of our undergraduate courses, in turn supporting strong employability; a substantial and growing range of options for post-graduate study; and extra-curricular activities such as our award winning sports facilities. The result: a very engaged, high-quality student body with strong values, impressive achievements, and excellent levels of student satisfaction.
Ours is a learning community, as students and academics work closely together in education and research. While this is frequently a transformative experience for students, the reach is very much wider, contributing to local and global understanding of the world in which we find ourselves. Our academics collaborate across traditional and emerging subject areas so that our research has practical applications with social and economic benefit. We continue to invest in new facilities and people to grow the impact of our research. We make a positive contribution to our community and the vigour of our local economy, accounting for around £380 million Gross Value Added (GVA) in Bath and North East Somerset and £1.2 billion to the UK. We work closely with globally recognised as well as small and specialised industrial partners and our Innovation Centre grows new businesses.
We are a vibrant, close-knit, intellectual, cultural, sporting, and social community who are proud of what we do and who we are, committed to using our skills and expertise to discover and solve real world problems. From the beginning, the University was designed to be different, innovative, and inclusive.
Our compact campus provides a sense of community which underpins our commitment to collegiality. A lively, international, and impactful alumni community helps us reach out into the world. Linking with partners who are both national and international, industrial, and social, this is a place where social sciences, humanities, the arts, engineering, and the broader sciences, come together to benefit wider global society.
The University of Bath is known as an innovative leader in all areas of student experience, teaching and learning, research, and international profile:
A snapshot of areas of innovation across the University includes:
Based at the Bristol Bath Science Park, the Institute for Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems (IAAPS) will be industry focused and compete on a global scale to support the UK in delivering transformational research in the years to come. Combining the world’s best engineers with industry, underpinned by a track record in expertise and delivery from the University of Bath, IAAPS can help deliver the vehicles of the future, securing jobs and investment.
The Milner Centre for Evolution brings together our intellectual expertise in evolution research in this state-of the-art research facility. This Centre asks the big evolutionary questions, finds new technological and clinical research applications, and takes evolutionary research into the community.
Led by the University of Bath, The Institute of Coding brings together universities, large corporates, small and medium sized enterprises, established industry groups, experts in the delivery of distance and non-traditional learning and professional bodies to develop and deliver innovative, industry-focused education across the UK.
A new high-profile International Olympic Committee (IOC) Research Centre to focus on injury prevention in sport will be based at the universities of Bath and Edinburgh. For over a decade, the University of Bath has been leading ground-breaking research to improve player safety in rugby. Major projects completed with England Rugby and World Rugby directly informed scrum law changes. Most recently, its development of the injury prevention programme, ‘Activate’, led to its global roll-out by World Rugby.
University strategy
Our five-year University Strategy, ‘Our University, Our Future: Connected’ has four pillars: fostering an outstanding and inclusive community; driving excellence in education; driving high-impact research; and enhancing strategic partnerships.
For more information, please visit The University of Bath Strategy 2021 to 2026.
The Faculty is home to four top-performing departments, covering a range of architectural, engineering and design specialisms. Our teaching is research led and driven by the wider needs of industry, ensuring great graduate career opportunities. The Faculty has a strong research culture and submitted nine impact case studies to the Engineering Unit of Assessment in REF 2021 and 100% of our impact was ranked world leading or internationally excellent.
The Faculty is a vibrant and diverse community with real strength in breadth, comprising four departments: Architecture & Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electronic & Electrical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.
The Faculty, its Departments and subjects rank highly in the major university guides. You can read more about our rankings and reputation here.
Job title Professor of Materials
Faculty Engineering & Design
Job family Education and Research
Reporting to Head of Department
Responsible for Any research staff/students
Location University of Bath premises
JOB DESCRIPTION
The Faculty of Engineering & Design is intending to make an exciting leadership appointment. We seek a dynamic Professor of Materials to lead research and education in a materials-related field. The development of novel materials, innovative structures and sustainable processes is an essential enabler in addressing major environmental, societal and technical challenges humanity is faced with. The new Centre for Integrated Materials, Processes and Structures takes a holistic and multi-disciplinary approach to the development of advanced materials, processes and structures in key areas such as energy materials, sustainable construction materials, materials for advanced sensors, catalysts for the circular economy, to name just a few. Spanning different scales from individual molecules to whole sustainable processes, research undertaken in the Centre ranges from fundamental research to manufacturing processes. Sustainability is an essential pillar of all our activities, in which experimental and computational techniques work hand-in-hand.
You will be based in the new Centre for Integrated Materials, Processes and Structures and in one of the four departments in the Faculty of Engineering and Design. You will have a strong research and education background in engineering, linked to materials, with a proven track record in growing a new area of scholarship. You will be an inspiring and innovative leader, demonstrating the ability to create, deliver and embed significant change solutions. You will have a record of attracting research funding to grow teams, and a record of disseminating high-quality publications world wide. You will be joining a high-performing Faculty, filled with the ambition to make the world a better place.
Job purpose
To lead research with high international impact and profile, and to undertake management and leadership duties commensurate with the role. Leading on teaching is optional in this role, but encouraged.
Main duties and responsibilities
The job duties and responsibilities listed below are intended to describe the general nature of the role. The duties and responsibilities, and the balance between the elements in the role may change or vary over time depending on the specific needs at a specific point in time, or due to changing needs in the Department/Centre. Jobholders should note that there may not be an immediate requirement to carry out all the activities listed below.
Research & scholarship
Teaching – this is optional for this role, but if conducted then some or all of the following is expected.
Management and leadership
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Qualifications
Experience/Knowledge
Skills
Attributes
Job title Professor of Bioengineering
Faculty Engineering & Design
Job family Education and Research
Reporting to Head of Department
Responsible for Any research staff/students
Location University of Bath premises
JOB DESCRIPTION
The Faculty of Engineering & Design is intending to make an exciting leadership appointment. We seek a dynamic Professor of Bioengineering to lead research and education in a bioengineering-related field. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the fore the fragility of health systems even in developed countries, with an acceleration of efforts, already underway, towards decentralised health monitoring, personalised treatments, and the integration of electronic and digital systems in both care systems and the management of complex diseases. A new Research Centre in Bioengineering and Biomedical Technologies (CBio) has been established. It builds on the strong international reputation of the current Centre for Biosensors, Bioelectronics and Biodevices (C3Bio), and extends its remit to include ground-breaking research in biomedical technology and bioengineering. This includes emerging strength in robotics and autonomous systems for healthcare, and major strengths in biomechanics, bioprocesses and tissue engineering. The new Research Centre will tackle grand challenges in fundamental, applied, and translational research in biomedical technologies and bioengineering.
You will be based in the new Centre for Bioengineering and Biomedical Technologies, and in one of the four departments in the Faculty of Engineering and Design. You will have a strong research and education background in engineering, linked to bioengineering, with a proven track record in growing a new area of scholarship. You will be an inspiring and innovative leader, demonstrating the ability to create, deliver and embed significant change solutions. You will have a record of attracting research funding to grow teams, and a record of disseminating high-quality publications world wide. You will be joining a high-performing Faculty, filled with the ambition to make the world a better place.
Job purpose
To lead research with high international impact and profile, and to undertake management and leadership duties commensurate with the role. Leading on teaching is optional in this role, but encouraged.
Main duties and responsibilities
The job duties and responsibilities listed below are intended to describe the general nature of the role. The duties and responsibilities, and the balance between the elements in the role may change or vary over time depending on the specific needs at a specific point in time, or due to changing needs in the Department/Centre. Jobholders should note that there may not be an immediate requirement to carry out all the activities listed below.
Research & scholarship
Teaching – this is optional for this role, but if conducted then some or all of the following is expected.
Management and leadership
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Qualifications
Experience/Knowledge
Skills
Attributes
Job title Professor of Sustainable Energy (Hydrogen)
Faculty Engineering & Design
Job family Education and Research
Reporting to Head of Department
Responsible for Any research staff/students
Location University of Bath premises
JOB DESCRIPTION
The Faculty of Engineering & Design is intending to make an exciting leadership appointment. We seek a dynamic Professor of Sustainable Energy (Hydrogen) to lead research and education in hydrogen-related energy systems. Hydrogen and its carriers (such as ammonia) are priority areas in the government’s energy strategies for Net Zero 2050. Hydrogen research is critical to decarbonisation and sustainability, and forms part of one of the University’s key research themes. Our focus on Energy and Sustainability is strong, with a newly launched Institute for Sustainability, and a new Centre in Sustainable Energy Systems. Hydrogen research is also focused within the Bath Beacon on Future Fuels: Hydrogen and its Carriers, and contributes to the Institute for Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems. The need for hydrogen and its carriers in our future energy mix for energy storage and propulsion is critical, and we seek to expand our expertise with this new role.
You will be based in the new Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems and in one of the four departments in the Faculty of Engineering and Design. You will have a strong research and education background in engineering, linked to hydrogen, with a proven track record in growing a new area of scholarship. You will be an inspiring and innovative leader, demonstrating the ability to create, deliver and embed significant change solutions. You will have a record of attracting research funding to grow teams, and a record of disseminating high-quality publications world wide. You will be joining a high-performing Faculty, filled with the ambition to make the world a better place.
Job purpose
To lead research with high international impact and profile, and to undertake management and leadership duties commensurate with the role. Leading on teaching is optional in this role, but encouraged.
Main duties and responsibilities
The job duties and responsibilities listed below are intended to describe the general nature of the role. The duties and responsibilities, and the balance between the elements in the role may change or vary over time depending on the specific needs at a specific point in time, or due to changing needs in the Department/Centre. Jobholders should note that there may not be an immediate requirement to carry out all the activities listed below.
Research & scholarship
Teaching – this is optional for this role, but if conducted then some or all of the following is expected.
Management and leadership
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Qualifications
Experience/Knowledge
Skills
Attributes
Term of office
These roles are permanent Professorial appointments in a relevant Department in the Faculty of Engineering & Design.
Renumeration
We are offering a competitive remuneration package to be agreed with the successful candidates.
Benefits
Our commitment to you
We have a strong commitment to the people we employ and value the contributions made by all our staff.
We aim to be an inclusive university, where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds leads to a better environment for our employees and students, creating a culture that enhances health and wellbeing across our community.
We hold an Athena Swan Silver award, and are very proud to have recently received Ambassadors for Autism certification and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.
Anderson Quigley is acting as an advisor to the University of Bath. An executive search process is being carried out by Anderson Quigley in addition to the public advertisement.
The closing date for applications is noon on 12th May 2023.
The references are:
Applications should consist of:
Should you wish to discuss the role(s) in strict confidence, please contact Imogen Wilde on +44 (0)7864 652 633, imogen@andersonquigley.com; or Elliott Rae on +44 (0)7584 078 534, elliott@andersonquigley.com
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