Research Associate in Children’s Mobilities

3 weeks ago


Oxford, United Kingdom University of Oxford Full time

We are seeking an early-career researcher with appropriate research experience to work on an ESRC funded project entitled ‘Care on the Move: active travel and the everyday mobilities of children with non-visible disabilities’. This will entail building new interdisciplinary research at the intersection of human geography, mobility studies, and critical disability studies in advancing understandings of non-visible disabilities’, and the physical, emotional, and logístical labour associated with ‘care on the move’ in the context of the UK’s active travel agendas.

The successful applicant will develop and conduct research on active travel, disability, and care in Oxford and Swindon. This will include conducting fieldwork with a range of qualitative methods including creative and playful methods. You will also prepare papers for presentation at national and international conferences and for submission to leading journals in the social sciences. You will engage in and organise stakeholder involvement and interactions in the project.

This is a fixed term post for 36 months from 1 January 2024.



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