Post-doctoral Research Associate in Social and

2 months ago

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom The Open University UK Full time

**Unit**: Faculty of Business and Law (FBL)
**Salary**: £36,333 to £38,474
**Location**: Milton Keynes
**Please quote reference**: 20905
Fixed term contract for 2 years until 31 December 2025
**Closing Date**: 12 June, 2023 - 12:00

**Change your career, change lives**

The Open University is the UK’s largest university, a world leader in flexible part-time education combining a mission to widen access to higher education with research excellence, transforming lives through education.

This role is a unique opportunity to join the Social and Sustainable Enterprise research cluster in The Open University Business School, Department Pulse to work on a new and exciting externally funded Horizon Europe project ENCASE.

The ENCASE project focuses on developing a European Network of Research Infrastructures for CO2 Transport and Injection. Our role in the project will be to develop and evaluate social innovation labs, processes and initiatives to integrate the research infrastructures in their local communities.

In this role, you will develop methodological protocols, co-design training to support research infrastructures to establish social innovation lab and co-creation activities and carry out comparative qualitative and quantitative research to explore if the processes worked (or not) and how.

**The role**

You will develop your skills in leading, managing and researching co-creation projects. You will assist the team in developing the social innovation lab and process in collaboration with the Scottish research infrastructure partner, contribute to the project planning and coordinate activities across project collaborators. You will bring a keen interest in supporting co-creation activities with environmental objectives and specific knowledge on evaluating if and how these processes work. At all stages of the project, you will work closely with and receive support from experienced academics who have qualitative and/or quantitative research methods expertise.

**Skills and experience**
- Hold a PhD (or be close to completion) in Public Management, Management, Political Science, Economics, Sociology or related disciplines
- Willingness to travel to Scotland for fieldwork
- A strong record of research (such as publications published or publications in pipeline/under review) and/or knowledge exchange (such as organisation of event(s) for knowledge sharing or development of policy briefs) that is related to the position.

More information can be provided via a link to the Job Description.

**What you get in return**

We have a strong commitment to providing training and development in and beyond your current role. This includes thorough induction into the organisation and regular reviews of your training and development needs.

We also offer a great range of benefits that support our employees and their families for the long term. Staff Benefits include an attractive pension proposition and 33 days holiday per annum pro rata, plus Bank Holidays and Christmas closure days.

**How to apply**

Access details for disabled applicants are available from the Resourcing Hub, telephone: 01908 655544, quoting the vacancy reference above.
- **CV**:

- **Personal statement, **_up to 1,000 words_**, you should set out in your statement why you’re interested in this role and provide examples of where your skills and experience meet the required competencies for this role as detailed in the job and person specification.**

**Closing Date**:12th June 2023 at 12 noon

**Interview date**:21st & 22nd June 2023

Find out more about us and our mission by watching this short video (you will be taken to YouTube by clicking this link).

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