Ktp Associate

**Job Reference**

2888

**Application Closing Date**

04/07/2025

**Division, Department**

Research Division ,Research Centre for Computational Science and Mathematical Modelling

**Salary**

**Mode**

Fixed Term for 12 Months, Full Time

**Our Mission**:
Coventry University Group is a global education group with a mission of Creating Better Futures. We are driven by our passionate belief in the transformational power of education and research to enable and empower our students, colleagues and partners and to improve the world around them. Our people are key to our success and each role contributes to the Group’s ongoing progress in communities around the world.

**The Role**:
Hidalgo Limited / Coventry University wish to recruit a highly motivated data scientist as a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Associate to lead an innovative project.

The post-holder will be delivering a 12-month project focusing on the development and validation of a software system to estimate personal level of risk for heat-related injury/illness when working in thermally challenging industries. The developed software will be incorporated into Hidalgo Limited’s existing, and future, wearable physiological monitoring connected worker solutions.

This post will involve using Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Machine Learning (ML) approaches to deliver a 12-month project focusing on the development and validation of a system to estimate core body temperature that will inform a heat-risk warning system. Estimating core body temperature accurately in multiple industrial settings is integral to providing individualised heat-stress risk monitoring, as it allows Hidalgo to offer optimised solutions across different industries, thus protecting a larger majority of a workforce. The algorithms developed and validated within the KTP will be proprietary to Hidalgo. Information derived from this KTP will also help inform future product development.

**About the Company**:
Hidalgo, under its brand name, Equivital, is an established Cambridge-based leading global supplier of end-to-end real-time physiological monitoring solutions for use in real-world occupational settings. Please review the link below for more information:
A key focus of Hidalgo is to provide actionable information on workers exposed to risk of heat-related injury/illnesses. With rising global temperatures, this is increasingly recognised as a major issue within many occupations. It is estimated that approximately 1 million work life-years will be lost globally by 2030 due to occupational heat stroke fatalities and 70 million work life-years lost because of reduced labour productivity; causing an estimated accumulated global financial loss of $2,400 billion (~£1,817 billion) by 2030.

**What is a KTP?**:
This position forms part of the KTP initiative funded by Innovate UK. The KTP initiative supports partnerships between business and universities or research organisations, placing graduates (KTP Associates) to work on innovative high-profile projects. Associates work under the supervision of a university academic(s) and the KTP industrial partner.

**Qualifications Required**:
**The Benefits**:
As a staff member of Coventry University, you will have a access to a wide range of industry leading rewards and benefits which includes:

- Excellent Employers Pension Contribution
- 30 days Annual leave plus Bank Holidays
- New Holiday Purchase Scheme up to 5 additional days
- Life Assurance 4 x Salary
- BUPA Cash Plan
- 50% off Tuition Fee’s for staff dependants
- CU Reward Scheme - Discounts across a range of High Street/ Online Retailers
- New Electric Car Scheme
- Cycle To work scheme

**Our Culture**:
As a global Education Group, equality, diversity, and inclusion are embedded within the fabric of our organisation and are a key focus of our core values. We harness the power and potential of the diverse cultures, backgrounds, abilities, and experiences of our students, colleagues, and partners to create opportunities for all.

**Full Job Description & Person Specification**:
We expect interviews to take place in the weeks around 9th July

We look forward to hearing from you