Research Assistant/ Research Associate

3 weeks ago


Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Newcastle University Full time

**Salary**:
**Research Assistant**: £31,396 to £32,982 per annum
**Research Associate**: £33,966 to £36,024 per annum

Newcastle University is a great place to work, with excellent benefits. We have a generous holiday package; plus the opportunity to buy more, great pension schemes and a number of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.

**Closing Date**: 01 July 2024

The Role

We are seeking to appoint a Research Assistant/ Research Associate with a background and skills in social history, family history, and genealogical research to work on an innovative project entitled Caring Communities: Rethinking Social Care 1800-present, led by PI Dr Claudia Soares, and funded by UKRI.

**Caring Communites**: Rethinking Children’s Social Care 1800-present is an ambitious and innovative research project that uses historical and contemporary sources in innovative ways to generate new understandings about the role, value and meaning of children’s care through time, and importantly, offer new ideas about what children’s care could look like in the future. The project develops an innovative, interdisciplinary framework that combines approaches from historical research with creative, arts-based methods and participatory practices to provide a major cultural and affective study of children’s care between 1800-present.

Your role will focus on the collection and interpretation of historical evidence relating to children’s care between 1800-1945. This will include extensive archival, family history and genealogical research. Additionally, you will support the wider team in the delivery of collaborative research that has qualitiative, creative and participatary methods at its core.

You will join a small interdisciplinary team led by the PI, alongside an RA with expertise in qualitative research methods, and a RA with Creative Research/Arts-Based expertise. With support from the PI, you will be required to collaborate with a range of stakeholders, expected to take initiative in your work, and consult with the wider team over the details of the project. You will be expected to attend regular in-person and online project meetings, and to participate fully in the research life of the School.

The project is hosted in the School of History, Classics & Archaeology, which has a vibrant and active research culture with particular strengths in interdisciplinary working and supporting the holistic career development of early career colleagues.

You will be provided with academic and pastoral support within the School, and training will be provided to develop your competences. You will benefit from access to the School’s mentoring scheme, individual research expense allowance, extensive training opportunities including a bespoke personal development plan, and peer support from a cross disciplinary cohort of talented postdoctoral and early career researchers. Newcastle University is a signatory to the Concordat to support researchers’ career development which entitles Postdoctoral Research Associates up to 10 days annually of personal career and research development activities.

To apply, please upload an up-to-date CV and cover letter outlining how you meet the essential criteria of the job. Please also upload one writing sample (e.g. journal article, thesis chapter, or essay-in-progress) that you feel best reflects your research, preferably between 7,000-10,000 words.

A successful DBS check will be a condition of appointment.

This is a fixed term role, fixed term until 29 June 2028

Key Accountabilities
- Undertaking extensive primary, archival, and policy research across the UK to consult major collections relating to children’s care between 1800-present
- Producing a sample of in-depth, narrative biographies employing the use of creative research methods
- Accurately transcribe, process and analyse data collected
- Contributing to the creation of a bespoke database for project data and analysis, and developing a project website
- Developing and maintaining collaborations and relationships with key academic and non-academic stakeholders, and research participants
- Supporting the delivery of a participatory research programme that uses historical data to generate a new collection of data and research outputs
- Supporting the organisation and carrying out of qualitative research carried out on set themes about everyday life and experiences of care
- Producing high-quality publications, including (co-)authored journal articles, a (co-)edited collection, and a planned project monograph
- Contributing to the designing and delivery of public engagement/story-telling events (e.g. learning resources, exhibitions, performances etc)
- Supporting the organisation and carrying out of qualitative research carried out on set themes about everyday life and experiences of care
- Performing other project-related tasks as agreed with the PI including administrative tasks (e.g. routine communications, event management a


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