Youth Insight Participatory Research Officer

About the Role

From 2024-2026, a new QM project on participatory research and young people aims to generate toolkits and training to support academics who want to recruit, train and meaningfully collaborate with young people as participatory researchers by using creative methodologies.

We are halfway through the project, and have recruited a group of Youth Insight Researchers, young people from Queen Mary and local charity Toynbee Hall who have experience of working on participatory research projects. They will now be placed on 6 current Queen Mary research projects, and their experiences and insights will help to inform the toolkits and training for academics. 

The Youth Insights Participatory Research Officer will be responsible for planning and delivering the toolkits and training, and for the scheduling and supervision of the Youth Insights project with young people and academics. They will be supporting the development of skills and the sharing of best practice and common challenges encountered when working with young people on research projects. They will also be facilitating the Youth Insight Researchers, overseeing their training and supporting them to write up their insights and experiences to be included in the toolkits.

About the Department

The Queen Mary Centre for Arts, Culture and Creative Collaboration (AC&C) is a centrally-located team which delivers university strategic priorities through its partnerships and networks with the creative and cultural sectors. We enable Queen Mary researchers across the university to achieve impact through interdisciplinary collaborations with the sector. We provide knowledge exchange and skills development opportunities to staff and students. And we support Queen Mary’s Civic University Agreement priorities by delivering the priority area, A Cultural Hub for East London.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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