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We have a generous holiday package; plus the opportunity to buy more, great pension schemes and a number of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.\nClosing Date: 27 October 2026\nThe Role\nIn our research, we will assess and develop socio-environmental trade-offs of different supply chains and the unique climate-security and geopolitical challenges facing the defence sector.\nYou will be working on the ESRC-funded project: Critically Green, where we will develop new ways of understanding the environmental impacts of military operations. This includes a novel Material Flow Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment (and perhaps Social LCA), which will enable us to follow the critical minerals from their source to their finished military products. We will be tracing their social and environmental impacts along the way. We will use these findings to pinpoint ‘hotspots’ of carbon emissions and social and environmental impacts, such as water pollution, deforestation and population displacement.\nUsing Life Cycle Assessment, you will examine the UK Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) use of critical minerals and different sourcing options. Specifically, you will quantify the environmental impacts of the military supply chains for example, extracting lithium and graphite.\nAs part of our commitment to career development for research colleagues, the University has developed 3 levels of Research Innovation Role Profiles.pdf. 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