Advance Notice of Future Cities Catapult KE Fellow Announcement of Opportunity

This message is an advance notice of the opportunity which will go live on the 17^th September 2014 on the NERC website.

NERC, in partnership with the Future Cities Catapult (the FC Catapult), is seeking to invest in an early to mid-career academic with expertise in environmental data to explore the application of environmental datasets to innovative products, processes and services that improve the planning and management of city systems. This KE Fellowship opportunity will focus on translating environmental datasets within the NERC remit to a range of users associated with the FC Catapult’s work on urban innovation.

The FC Catapult is a global centre of excellence on urban innovation with a remit “to assist UK businesses create the products and services that cities across the world need if they are to have a strong economy, a resilient environment and an improved quality of life”.  The FC Catapult is developing the Cities-Lab as a unique facility to harness big data and to test and validate solutions at city-scale. NERC and the FC Catapult are collaborating by jointly investing in this KE Fellowship to increase uptake and application of NERC environmental datasets and related research. The successful Fellow will add significant value by increasing the uptake of NERC environmental data in a way that enables development of innovative new products, processes and services that address the challenges and opportunities of the world’s cities.