Research Fellow

We are seeking to appoint a Research Fellow to work on an externally-funded project, ‘What must it be like to teach? What young people believe about being a teacher’. The post is available from 1st April 2025 and is full-time for 28 months until July 2027. The project explores how ‘being a teacher’ is constructed by leaving pupils, who have spent the last 13 years in schooling. Using narrative interviews with pupils, the project explores what they believe it is to be a teacher and investigates the assumptions they have developed through being immersed in schools. The analysis will advance conceptualisation of how ‘being a teacher’ is constructed and the ways in which young people are possible future teachers on leaving school.

The successful applicant will conduct relevant literature review and ethics application work; conduct qualitative data collection and data management; liaise with schools; plan and carry out site visits in schools throughout England; and conduct data analysis. They will be expected to contribute to report writing and a range of project outputs aimed at varied audiences.

You will have a PhD or equivalent in relevant subject area and proven knowledge of research techniques and qualitative methodologies in a key field of educational research.

Experience of project management is desirable.

Your application form should address all the person specification points and should clearly demonstrate how your skills and experience meet each of the criteria.

It is important that the criteria are clearly numbered and that you provide a response to each one.

Customer advert reference: B16-01696

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