College of Social Sciences
Location: This role will be based in London
Full time starting salary is normally in the range £31,406 to £40,927 with potential progression once in post to £43,434. London Weighting Allowance will be paid additionally.
Fixed term contract for up to 31st January 2025
Closing date:12th June 2022
Interview Date: 22nd June 2022
Job Purpose
Main Responsibilities (over the project lifetime)
- Provide quantitative sampling and survey design expertise on a nationally representative survey for secondary schools, teachers, and pupils
- Lead on gaining substantial national secondary school survey participation and on conducting online survey administration with schools
- Conduct in-depth qualitative and youth participatory research in London schools and communities
- Store, anonymise, code, analyse and interpret quantitative and qualitative data
- Support data synthesis from across the entire project
- Analyse and evaluate research literature to identify key research gaps
- Apply knowledge in a way which develops new intellectual understanding
- Lead with support, and co-write, high quality peer-reviewed research articles
- Co-write research reports for non-specialist audiences
- Disseminate research findings for publication, stakeholder, and academic seminars etc
- Undertake management/administration arising from research
- Contribute to Departmental/School/University research-related activities and research-related administration
- Present research outputs, including drafting academic publications or parts thereof, for example at seminars and as posters
- Prepare and lead elements of regular team, advisory group, and youth advisory group meetings
Person Specification
- A PhD or near to completion demonstrating significant quantitative expertise in the fields of sociology, politics, education, or youth studies
- Experience of successfully negotiating access to schools or other similar public institutions for research participation
- Experienced in effective use of quantitative analysis tools such as SPSS
- Knowledge and understanding of qualitative methods, and mixed method research approaches
- Can plan and organise elements of the research project using digital collaboration platforms
- Can assess project resource requirements and use resources effectively
- Can meet key deadlines for project outputs (publications, reports, stakeholder events)
- Understands and can contribute to broader management/administration processes including online public communications (social media etc.)
- Can co-ordinate own work with others to avoid conflict or duplication of effort
- Can adopt a consistently professional and discrete approach in dealing with challenging or difficult research tasks and circumstances
- Can independently solve an appropriate range of problems relating to the project
- Knows the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010, and how to actively ensure in day-to-day activity in own area that those with protected characteristics are treated equally and fairly
- Can be based in London for the duration of the project (with office space provided), and willing to travel to Birmingham typically once a month for project team meetings
- Will need DBS clearance for working in school, youth and community contexts
For informal enquiries, please contact Dr Karl Kitching: [email protected]
Closing date: 12th June 2022 Reference: 99675
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