Jobs – Research Assistant, GEMINI geothermal project, Queen’s University Belfast

Queen’s University Belfast (source: Andreas Haupt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

The School of Natural and Built Environment in conjunction with the Queen’s Business School, Queen’s University Belfast, have open positions for two Research Assistants to work on the €20/£17.3m multi-partner, all-island geothermal energy demonstration project GEMINI supported by PEACEPLUS, a programme managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB).

For more details on the job opening and instructions on how to apply, please visit the official job opening page. Applications will be accepted until 18 November 2024.

The Research Assistants will undertake research tasks during the project with the support of the project’s coinvestigators based at Queen’s University Belfast and the network of project partners. The momentum sustaining work may include community group and stakeholder engagement, attending geoenergy policy events, demonstration projects, start-ups, or exploring novel technology awareness, readiness and use.

The posts are fixed-term for 45 months, starting 1st January 2025 (or as soon as possible thereafter) with the possibility of an extension to 48 months, subject to funder’s agreement. A key component of the posts is to support and build geoenergy networks and undertake field behavioural research on the geoenergy transition across the island of Ireland. The positions will require travelling to the four R&D project areas, the surrounding local communities and managing multiple tasks across each of the locations.

The GEMINI project is a multi-partner all-island geothermal project in Ireland that aims to deploy pilot demonstrator sites in Belfast, Sligo, and Dublin. The project is supported by the PEACEPLUS programme which is co-funded by the European Union, the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Government of Ireland, and the Northern Ireland administration.

Source: Email correspondence