Job Ref: A-565563
Faculty: The Cockcroft Institute Location: Daresbury, Warrington
Salary: Negotiable Hours of work: Full-Time
Tenure: 5 years, in combination with a permanent professorial appointment in one of the partner universities
Closing Date: 1 September 2014 Interview Date: 30 September 2014
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Informal enquiries to Professor Ronan McGrath (Liverpool), email: , Professor Steve Watts (Manchester), email: , Professor Malcom Joyce, (Lancaster Engineering), email: or Professor Roger Jones (Lancaster Physics),
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THE COCKCROFT INSTITUTE
The Cockcroft Institute is a unique international centre specifically responsible for research and development in particle accelerators, colliders and light sources for advancing the frontier of particle and nuclear physics, photon sciences and various applications to society in the areas of health, medicine, energy and security.Based at the Sci-Tech Daresbury Campus, The Cockcroft Institute is a partnership between the Universities of Liverpool, Manchester and Lancaster, and the Science and Technology Facilities Council.
The CI will be a national centre for accelerator science, technology and engineering, producing world class research and educating the next generation of accelerator scientists and technologists. It will aim to be world-leading in key areas, with a significant international profile. At its centre it will have the collaborative science generated by the University Partners, enhanced by the facilities at Daresbury and the science and technology capability of STFC’s staff.
Research excellence will be the principal driver of its activities. It will seek to ensure that this excellence also delivers impact on society and business, by acting as a centre of innovation and skills with strong connections with strategic partners and have a commercial dimension which capitalises on IP generated and connects to the Science and Innovation campus.
The strategy of the CI will be broadly aligned with, and aim to provide input to, the strategic aims and priorities of STFC and the university partners.
http://www.cockcroft.ac.uk/
THE ROLE
You will report to the Board of the Institute, and will have overall responsibility for all aspects of the Institute’s business, including the development and implementation of the Cockcroft Institute strategy. You will also have stewardship of the finances of the institute (grant & contracts), financial planning (including grant renewal), working with partners in recruitment/retention of staff and in the public relations and marketing of a major centre of excellence and space utilisation.
You will work with the partners to manage and promote collaborative activities and drive business engagement and impact and will be involved in a programme of public engagement and outreach activities, and contribute to Research Excellence Framework stewardship in research and impact. You will chair the Institute’s management team.
The role of Director will be for 5 years (renewable), and will be offered in combination with a permanent professorial appointment in one of the partner universities.
THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL
The University of Liverpool is one of the UK’s leading research institutions with an annual turnover of £410 million, including £150 million for research. Liverpool is ranked in the top 1% of higher education institutions worldwide and is a member of the prestigious Russell Group, comprising the leading research universities in the UK.
An international institution, we have 27,000 students and 175,000 alumni in 182 countries. Our global focus has led us to establish a university in the World Heritage city of Suzhou near Shanghai, in partnership with Xi’an Jiaotong University – a top 10 university in China. Liverpool is popular with students from all over the world, with 2,100 international students from 112 countries studying at the University.
We are also the largest provider of 100% online postgraduate degree courses in Europe with some 8,000 students studying for University of Liverpool degrees around the world.
Associated with no fewer than eight Nobel Laureates, we are recognised for our high-quality teaching and research. In the UK Government’s most recent research assessment exercise, a total of 53% of research staff were ranked in the highest categories of 4* (world-leading) and 3* (internationally excellent) for their research.
Addressing some of the world’s toughest challenges, our research is helping to transform lives. Here you can work with us to conduct research that has a positive impact on people and the planet, to share ideas with peers, with business and beyond, to further widen your world view within our international network of academic partners and to prepare to be a true global citizen. Here at the University, we can help you to make a real difference to the wider world.
We continue to develop key aspects of the student experience, investing £600 million in teaching, research and residential estate over a 10-year period. This includes a £45million project to construct high-quality student accommodation at our city centre campus, which opened in September 2012. The teaching environment for science-based subjects has been transformed with an investment of £25 million in state-of-the-art centralised teaching laboratories.
THE FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
The Faculty of Science and Engineering is one of three Faculties that make up the University of Liverpool, the others being Health & Life Sciences and Humanities and Social Sciences. Together we represent one of the UK's largest concentrations of research expertise, with outputs that place us in the top 1% of Higher Education Research Institutions worldwide.
The Faculty consists of the Schools of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science, Engineering, Environmental Sciences and Physical Sciences. Alongside these Schools, a number of inter-disciplinary initiatives are maturing. The Stephenson Institute of Renewable Energy occupies custom built laboratories, and is host to the new EPSRC CDT in Photo-Voltaics. The Risk Institute includes members from 8 different Departments across the three Faculties, and is home to the new, Liverpool-only, CDT on Risk. New activities in BioMedical Science and Engineering, Autonomous Systems, Network Science, Costs and Oceans, the Liverpool Earth Observatory, Nuclear Science and Engineering and Big Data are in development.
In recent years excellent facilities for teaching have been developed, including the Active Learning Laboratory within the School of Engineering, and the Central Teaching Laboratories for Physical Sciences and Environmental Sciences. Programmes at XJTLU include Financial Maths, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Civil Engineering, Chemistry and Environmental Sciences. Significant numbers of highly qualified students come to Liverpool on these programmes.
The Faculty is in a good position to strengthen on a number of important measures, continuing the progress that has seen in the last 5 years the PhD student numbers increase by a factor of 2.26, research income by 20%, and student numbers by 40%.
THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
The Physics Department, part of the School of Physical Sciences, was one of the first departments established in the University in 1881 and has a long tradition of excellence in research. The Department has scored highly in three consecutive reviews by HEFCE - the national Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). This considerable achievement reflects the Department's international reputation in the fields of condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, particle physics and accelerator science.
The first Professor of Physics was Sir Oliver Lodge, who made the world's first public radio transmission in 1894. Two years later, Lodge demonstrated the use of X-ray photography by taking an image of a bullet in a boy's wrist. It was the first time an X-ray had been used for surgical purposes in the UK. Professor Charles Glover Barkla's research into X-Rays won him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1917, and Sir James Chadwick was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1935 for discovering the neutron. More recently, Sir Joseph Rotblat was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995 for his work on limiting the threat posed by nuclear weapons.
The Department is very well funded for research. There are currently approximately 40 academic staff who are responsible for the teaching and supervision of about 300 undergraduate and 80 postgraduate students. Over 40 full time research and computer physicists, professional, technical and electronic support staff together with extensive laboratory, workshop and design facilities, support the research groups. Much of our research is carried out in the leading international centres for physics research: ILL (Grenoble), ESRF (Grenoble), ELETTRA (Trieste), CERN (Geneva), SLAC (Stanford), FNAL (Chicago), JYFL (Jyväskylä), GANIL (Caen), GSI (Darmstadt) and ATLAS (Argonne).
The Department performs extremely well in both teaching and research as evidenced by excellent scores in teaching quality assessment, research assessment exercises and the national student survey.
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES
The Faculty of Engineering and Physical Science is one of the largest in the country with over 10,000 students, 2,000 staff and strategic links with over 300 industrial companies. We are leading research efforts in energy, nuclear science and technology, computer science, atmospheric science, bioscience and biotechnology, photon science and photonic materials, imaging and visualisation, security, and advanced materials, attracting an annual income of over £200 million.
Founded in 1824, we have a history of breaking new ground in science and engineering. Rutherford began his work here on splitting the atom and later received the Nobel prize in 1908 for his work on radioactivity. The ‘Baby’, the world’s first stored-program computer, and Manchester Mark 1 came into being here. It is the birthplace of Chemical Engineering. The world’s first steerable radio telescope at Jodrell Bank was built here by Bernard Lovell. Since 1906, when former student Joseph Thomson won the Nobel prize for physics, the University has produced more than 20 Nobel Laureates, the most recent of which were Professor Andre Geim and Professor Konstantin Novoselov in 2010 - for their pioneering work with the world’s thinnest material, graphene.
The Faculty is made up of nine Schools:
· Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science· Chemistry
· Computer Science / · Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences
· Electrical and Electronic Engineering
· Materials / · Mathematics
· Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
· Physics & Astronomy
SCHOOL OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
The School of Physics & Astronomy (www.physics.manchester.ac.uk) is one of the largest Physics departments in the UK and has 80 academic staff, 84 postdoctoral Research Associates, 920 UG/PG students, 160 postgraduate research students and 180 research/support staff. The total annual research income is around £15 million per annum. Core undergraduate programmes are delivered in Physics and Astronomy.