Earth Fellow: Quantifying carbon emissions from anthropogenic fires (masters level)
Earth Fellow: Quantifying carbon emissions from anthropogenic fires (masters level)
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Job Description
Grade UE05: 29179 - 33482 per annum pro rata
CSG / Department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability/ Edinburgh Earth Initiative
Part Time: 9 hours per week
Fixed-term: 9 months from September 2025
The School of Engineering Business School and Edinburgh Climate Change Institute are looking for a postgraduate student to contribute to a project to develop a carbon accounting tool to measure and analyse the emissions from anthropogenic fire incidents in Scotland. This 9-month project will focus on developing and validating the carbon accounting tool which we hope will inform future strategic interventions to mitigate the environmental damage caused by these fires.
This post will be appointed at Grade UE05 step 1 which is 29179 per annum pro rata (15.99 per hour).
Earth Fellowships are only open to current postgraduate and PhD students at the University of Edinburgh based in the UK. Please do not apply if you are not a current University of Edinburgh student.
Your skills and attributes for success:
- Current University of Edinburgh postgraduate student in the 25/26 academic year.
- An interest in fire safety environmental science or business analytics.
- An interest in and willingness to learn about carbon accounting methodologies.
- Some experience with data manipulation and analysis.
- Excellent communication skills including the ability to communicate complex information clearly both in writing and in oral presentations.
- Ability to work proactively with colleagues with a variety of expertise; understanding and valuing different points of view.
As an Earth Fellow you will be joining a diverse fun and dynamic team of researchers students and staff all working together to address the global climate emergency. As part of the Earth Fellows programme you will have access to co-working space exciting networking and personal development opportunities and opportunities to contribute towards partnerships and solutions for climate change on a global scale.
Earth Fellows work on individual and team-based projects which contribute to the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Earth Initiatives work on climate change research-led impact innovation engagement and teaching.
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Application Information
Please ensure you include the following documents in your application:
- CV
- Cover letter
As a valued member of our team you can expect:
- A competitive salary.
- An exciting positive creative challenging and rewarding place to work.
- To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community.
- Comprehensive Staff Benefits such as a generous holiday entitlement competitive pension schemes staff discounts and family-friendly initiatives. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page(opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits.
Championing equality diversity and inclusion
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions actively promoting LGBT equality.
Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages(opens new browser tab).
The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. They will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
Key dates to note
The closing date for applications is 21st August 2025.
Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.
Employment Type
Part-Time
