Research Assistant

2 weeks ago


Brighton, United Kingdom University of Sussex Full time

Do you want to explore a career in impactful academic research? Could you carry out interviews with a wide range of people about their experiences with social welfare legal advice?

We are seeking to recruit a research assistant on the ESRC-funded SWILAMap project, which aims to understand and map social welfare legal advice across the UK and to influence legal aid policy.

A brain-injured adult faces a move to a less suitable care placement because of an unlawful decision by social services. A disabled couple are wrongly told they have overclaimed council tax benefit, and face significant deductions from their benefits to repay it. A single mother is refused housing assistance because she is treated as intentionally homeless, having moved out of a house where she was suffering serious bullying and harassment from a neighbour. A woman who entered the UK on a spouse visa is afraid to flee her abusive husband because she faces destitution and deportation from the UK if she leaves the marriage.

All of these people have a legal right - to community care, to housing assistance, to a welfare benefit, to a secure immigration status - but these rights are meaningless without a way to enforce them. Legal aid is vital to accessing many social and welfare rights but, since 2010, local authority and legal aid funding cuts have brought about transformative changes to the social welfare legal advice sector across the whole UK.

You will support the Principal Investigator, Dr Jo Wilding, by interviewing members of the public, helping to thematically analyse the interview data, and other tasks like anonymising and archiving the interview transcripts to make them a valuable resource for other researchers.

You will have the opportunity of co-authoring a journal article with the Principal Investigator and presenting at an academic conference, and take on research tasks as required to support the lead researcher. This makes it a great starting point for an aspiring researcher with an interest in these issues.
- The University of Sussex values the diversity of its staff and students and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds._
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