Post Doctoral Research Assistant

UCL • Remote (London, England, United Kingdom) • £43.37k - £51.86k / year • 2w ago

About us

About IOE

IOE is UCL Faculty of Education and Society.

Founded in 1902, IOE has been shaping policy and helping government, organisations and individuals navigate a changing society for the last 120 years. We embrace collaboration and excellence to create a future that is inclusive and just, and have been ranked number one for education every year since 2014 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.

The Social Research Institute is one of the leading centres for social research in the UK. It is home to seven internationally renowned research units:

Centre for Longitudinal Studies
Centre for Time Use Research
CLOSER
EPPI Centre
Quantitative Social Science
Social Science Research Unit
Thomas Coram Research Unit

All of our centres are multidisciplinary, with staff drawn variously from economics, sociology, social policy, demography, psychology, anthropology and social statistics. We promote problem-solving interdisciplinary research on particular themes where we have outstanding scholarship and critical mass, e.g. gender, families, work, inequalities, migration, bio-social interactions.

About the role

Applications are invited for Post-Doctoral Researcher position (Grade 7) at the UCL Social Research Institute. The Researcher will work under the supervision of the PI Dr Charlotte Faircloth (TCRU) as well as Co-Is Professor Ann Oakley (SSRU) and Meg Wiggins (SSRU) in the Social Research Institute at UCL on the project ‘50 Years of Becoming a Mother’ (BAM50). You will join a vibrant team of post-docs, research assistants, PhD students and student interns.

We are looking for someone enthusiastic about the aims of our project to lead on the secondary data analysis of original data (1), informing our new round of data collection both with original participants (2) and with a new cohort of mothers (3). You will also oversee the preparation of archival materials for deposit in the UK Data Service.

This project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and is available for 17 months from the start date in the first instance.

About you

You will have a PhD in Sociology or Social Science or a related area of study.

You will be able to provide evidence of scholarship which contributes to SRI research including work of international profile, with a strong record of peer-reviewed publications and will have experience of social research into motherhood and family life.

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: B16-01705