Research Associate - Yorkshire Policy in Partnership

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University of Sheffield

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Are you looking for an academic job with a difference? The Sheffield-based YPIP team is looking for a research associate to work with external stakeholder to collect external evidence to support their policy priorities.

This research fellow (RF) position will provide critically important research support for the cutting-edge Yorkshire and Humber ‘Local Policy Innovation Partnerships’ (YPIP) Phase-2 programme. Through the YPIP project, representatives of the region’s 12 universities will work with diverse policy-stakeholders to co-produce responses to urgent challenges of inclusive growth and sustainable living. There will be a special focus on bringing members of socially and economically marginalised and spatially isolated communities into the policy equation.

You will work with the Sheffield Y-PIP team to develop the Yorkshire Vitality Index and the Yorkshire Engagement Portal while assisting the whole team in implementing key YPIP activities. 

We build teams of people from different heritages and lifestyles from across the world, whose talent and contributions complement each other to greatest effect. We believe diversity in all its forms delivers greater impact through research, teaching and student experience.

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