Senior Researcher Circular Transitions

Do you want to put your research expertise to work advancing circular and sustainability transitions in business and society?

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Professorship Circular Transition is part of the Centre of Expertise Sustainable & Circular Transitions and leads applied research on complex circular transition challenges within broader sustainability transitions. Our work contributes to improving professional practice, strengthening educational programmes, supporting regional transition ambitions, and generating new knowledge in the field of circular and sustainable development.

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About the Professorship Circular Transitions

Professorship Circular Transition conducts practice-oriented (applied) research into complex circular and sustainability transition issues, using systems thinking and a multi-level, multi-stakeholder, and integral approach to economic, societal, and environmental dimensions of sustainability.

Our ambition is to conduct impactful research that creates value for all stakeholders by:

• improving professional practice by structurally embedding sustainability into business processes,
• enhancing the quality of educational programmes,
• supporting regional transition and policy-making processes,
• contributing to new knowledge creation, regional development, and broad social wellbeing.

A key focus of the professorship is the role of businesses as drivers of circular and sustainability transitions. We aim to lead applied research on managing integral value creation (economic, social, and environmental) by companies. Our research delivers new insights, tools, and methodologies that:

• support the assessment of societal and environmental value creation (or destruction) by companies;
• integrate impact information into strategic and operational decision-making for long-term integral value creation;
• enable communication and cooperation with stakeholders, and sustainability reporting.

The research addresses complex trade-offs in simultaneously optimizing financial, social, and environmental value along entire supply chains, using interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research approaches, and a long-term and dynamic perspective. The professorship focuses on industries and sustainability challenges in the South of the Netherlands, with particular attention to manufacturing and high-tech companies, and aligns with the Strategic Knowledge and Innovation Agenda and relevant Top Sectors.

To strengthen our team, we are looking to attract a Senior Researcher.

This is how you make an impact What will you be doing?

• Participating in large-scale research consortia, ranging from regional to international projects in the field of applied techno-ethics related to social issues;
• Co-writing grant applications and publications about the research work;
• Teaching tasks at Fontys in consultation (beyond the scope of this research appointment).