Graduate Research Assistant

This new part-time (0.4 FTE) post is available from 1 August 2024 until 27 June 2025 on a fixed term basis.

We welcome applications from candidates interested in working part-time hours or job-sharing arrangements.

This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working – some time on campus and some from home.

The post

The Faculty wishes to recruit a 0.4FTE Graduate Research Assistant to support the work of Psychology’s Athena Swan Self-Assessment Team. This is available immediately or from 1^st August 2024 until 27 June 2025. The successful applicant will support the Head of Department, Director of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion, the Department manager, and colleagues in the Athena Swan Self-Assessment Team (SAT) to deliver the department’s next Athena Swan submission.

The post will include project management responsibilities for the Athena Swan application, including:

• gathering and tracking data and evidence to support the application
• analysing data and presenting these in written and graphical form
• co-ordinating and implementing Athena Swan activities across the department and beyond
• monitoring progress of action plans and collecting evidence of the impact of these actions
• supporting the delivery of new initiatives
• supporting the writing of the Athena Swan application

About you

The successful applicant will be able to present information on research progress and outcomes, communicate complex information, orally, in writing and electronically and prepare proposals and applications to external bodies.

Applicants will be educated to first degree level or possess an equivalent qualification/experience in a related field of study or equivalent experience and be able to demonstrate sufficient knowledge in the discipline and of research methods and techniques to work within established research programmes.

Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role.

What we can offer you

• Freedom (and the support) to pursue your intellectual interests and to work creatively across disciplines to produce internationally exciting research;
• Support teams that understand the University wide research and teaching goals and partner with our academics accordingly
• An Innovation, Impact and Business directorate that works closely with our academics providing specialist support for external engagement and development
• Our Exeter Academic initiative supporting high performing academics to achieve their potential and develop their career
• A multitude of staff benefits including sector leading benefits around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (up to 26 weeks full pay), Paternity leave (up to 6 weeks full pay), and a Fertility Treatment Policy
• A beautiful campus set in the heart of stunning Devon.

The University of Exeter

We are a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities and in the top 200 universities in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 and QS World University Ranking 2024).  We combine world-class teaching with world-class research, achieving a Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework Award 2023, underpinned by Gold ratings for Student Experience and Student Outcomes.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commitment

We are committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments are available for interviews and workplaces.

Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our working community. 

Further information

For further information please contact Prof Joanne Smith, e-mail psychologyhod@exeter.ac.uk. 

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