Postdoctoral Research Associate

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate (0.5 FTE role) with an in interest in social justice; we anticipate such applicants having varied research journeys, potentially coming from disciplines that include Sociology, Criminology, Youth and Community Work, Social Work or Psychology amongst others.

The postholder will join the team delivering the ‘Everybody’s Business’ project, focused on testing Contextual Safeguarding in hospitality; led by Prof. Carlene Firmin and project managed by Dr Rachael Owens, who will supervise and work alongside three research associates; two of whom is already in the Contextual Safeguarding team. The project is being delivered over an 18-month period, with 12-months of extensive data collection and analysis to which the research associates will play a central role.

The successful applicant will be expected to use ethnographic and embedded research methods, established, and tested over many years by the Contextual Safeguarding team, to capture data in two hospitality settings. These include observations, reviews of policies, procedures and incident logging systems, and qualitative methods such as workshops and focus groups with people in the settings being observed. Given the focus is hospitality some data collection activities will take place during evenings and weekends. Research associates will collect data in two time periods, one focused on established practices, and one during a period to pilot system change activities. They will work with the team leaders, and participating organisations, to make sense of the data collected, formulating recommendations for system change at both business and national levels.

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