Research Fellow

3 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**UE07: £36,333 - £43,155 per annum**

**College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences / School of Social and Political Science / Sociology**

**Full Time Contract: 35 hours per week**

**Fixed Term Contract: 24 months from September 2023
**The Opportunity**:
You will support the developing programme of activities surrounding Data Civics/Public Services/Community Engagement, with a substantive focus on placemaking, by conducting original research and collaborating with the programme director on project-related tasks including bidding for funding, working on dissemination, publication, impact and knowledge exchange activities.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- A PhD (or equivalent), awarded or close to completion, in sociology, STS or other relevant social science/humanities discipline, with training or skills relevant to digital ethnographic and/or data-driven analysis.
- Demonstrable competence in mixed, qualitative and digital ethnographic research methods (e.g. interviews, social media analysis, online platforms and documentary research)

**Click to view a copy of the full job description**

**As a valued member of our team you can expect**:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits **pension scheme **, **staff discounts, **family friendly initiatives **, flexible working and much more. Access our **staff benefits page **for further information and use our **reward calculator **to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our **right to work **webpages.



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