Open Research Fellow at Bishop Grosseteste University

"Bishop Grosseteste University has secured substantial funding for a new Lincolnshire Open Research and Innovation Centre (LORIC) project, based on the principles of Open Research, Innovation and Data. This vacancy provides an opportunity to hold a key post in the project. It is ideal for a researcher with high-level skills in using Open and Big datasets who has the ability to develop innovative applications for small-medium sized businesses and social enterprises.

The successful applicant will play an essential role in developing the Centre’s activities and applications of Open Data with business, professional, and academic users.

Key responsibilities include:

• To promote and educate clients in using open research, innovation, and data.
• To map, access, and use open data, big data, and citizen-generated datasets, to solve problems and create knowledge-based opportunities through co-innovation with business and community users.
• To support the LORIC team in the successful delivery against ERDF output commitments as laid down in the funding bid.
• To contribute to educating staff, students, and external stakeholders in data-driven research methodologies, data handling, management, and analysis.
• To contribute significantly to developing new opportunities and funding applications, in policy, business, and community research, especially in relation to Open Data, Research and Innovation.
• To undertake personal research, publication, and scholarship in a data-centric field, likely to be applicable across a range of subject disciplines."