Research Fellow in Servitization Aston University -Aston Business School (Fixed Term Contract until 31st January 2018) £30,424 - £36,298 per annum

Servitization improves the commercial and environmental sustainability of businesses, and is of the upmost strategic importance to the future of UK manufacturing. It is a business model where manufacturers provide services that are closely coupled to their products. Unfortunately the adoption of servitization is frustratingly slow in mainstream manufacturing. 

Gamification bridges video-gaming technologies and computer simulations to offer three-dimensional virtual worlds, dynamic and content-rich, which can be used to entertain, educate and inform. This project will apply Gamification to accelerate the industrial adoption of servitization.

This project is a collaboration between Aston Business School, the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre Sheffield, and the Serious Games Institute at Coventry. It is supported by EPSRC as part of its ICT in Manufacturing initiative, has strong industrial support, and will run for five years. This new appointment at Aston will support this project. The appointee will join a growing research and outreach team specialising in servitization.

The purpose of this post is to support the business school research and teaching on servitization. Working closely with the project director and the Aston academic team, you will research servitization, striving to extend our knowledge of this phenomena and disseminate this to both the industrial and academic communities. You will have a PhD (or comparable research experience) in a related discipline such as business/manufacturing strategy, operations, technology management, or manufacturing engineering. You must be capable of working with senior executives, academic partners and students, also being productive and experienced in producing reports and publications. You will be skilled in preparing and editing reports, articles and presentations; have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and able to understand, design and implement systems to research and capture business data.

Candidates will ideally need to be available to start work on the 1^st August 2013.

For informal discussions relating to this post please contact Profesor Tim Baines, t.baines@aston.ac.uk

Please visit our website http://www.aston.ac.uk/jobs for further information and to apply online.  If you do not have access to the internet telephone 0121-204-4500 and leave your name and address quoting reference number:  R130047

Closing date: Midnight UK Time, Friday 22^nd March 2013

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