About the Role
The successful candidate will contribute to the development, delivery, and impact of research, training, knowledge exchange, and stakeholder engagement activities within a dynamic interdisciplinary research environment at the Centre for Online Safety, Safeguarding, Privacy and Identity (COSPI).
Responsibilities
- Identify funding opportunities.
- Support the preparation of research grant applications.
- Contribute to the design and delivery of research projects.
- Undertake questionnaire design, data collection, and analysis.
- Conduct research interviews.
- Support stakeholder engagement.
- Develop and deliver school-based training and CPD programmes.
- Undertake project administration.
- Contribute to knowledge exchange and impact activities that enhance the work of COSPI.
Requirements
- Hold a postgraduate qualification in Sociology, Criminology, or a very relevant discipline.
- Experience of social science research.
- Keen interest in debates surrounding online safety.
- Strong qualitative and/or quantitative research skills, including data collection, analysis, and reporting.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent organisational skills.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement skills.
- Experience of funding applications is advantageous.
- Experience of training development is advantageous.
- Experience of project coordination is advantageous.
- Experience working within a higher education or research environment is advantageous.
Skills
- Qualitative research
- Quantitative research
- Data collection
- Data analysis
- Reporting
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Organisational skills
- Stakeholder engagement
- Funding applications
- Training development
- Project coordination
Location
- London
Work Type
- Internal applicants only
Experience Level
- Postgraduate qualification
Education Level
- Postgraduate qualification in Sociology, Criminology or a very relevant discipline
Salary/Compensations
- Sector-leading salary
Benefits
- Pension scheme
- Comprehensive package of staff training and development
About the Company
- City St George’s, University of London is the University of business, practice and the professions.
- The combined university is now one of the largest higher education destinations for London students, combining a breadth of disciplines across health, business, policy, law, creativity, communications, science and technology.
- Our students are at the heart of everything that we do, and we are committed to supporting them to pursue their career and personal ambitions.
- Our research is engaged, at the frontier of practice and has a positive impact on the world around us.
- The Department of Sociology and Criminology is a leading centre for research, with 88% of research submitted to REF 2021 rated as world-leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*) quality, placing it 5th in the UK and 1st in London.
Equal Opportunity
- City St George’s, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors.
- We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.
- City St George’s operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.
