Research Associate

**Job Purpose****project overview** below).

**Main Duties and Responsibilities**
1. Take a leading role in the planning and conduct of assigned research individually or jointly in accordance with the project deliverables and Philosophy, School of Humanities and College of Arts research strategy.
2. Document research output including analysis and interpretation of all data, maintaining records and databases, drafting technical/progress reports and papers as appropriate.
3. Establish and maintain your research profile and reputation and that of School of Humanities and College of Arts, and of the COGITO Epistemology Research Centre, including establishing and sustaining a track record of independent and joint publications of international quality in high profile/quality refereed journals, enhancing the research impact in terms of economic/societal benefit, and gathering indicators of esteem.
5. Presentation of work at international and national conferences, at internal and external seminars, colloquia and workshops to develop and enhance our research profile.
6. Take a leading role in the identification of potential funding sources and to assist in the development of proposals to secure funding from internal and external bodies to support future research.
7. Take a leading role in developing and maintaining collaborations with colleagues across the research group/School/College/University and wider community (e.g. Academic and Industrial Partners).
8. Take a leading role in team/group meetings/seminars/workshops and School research group activities to enhance the wider knowledge, outputs and culture of the School/College.
9. Take the lead in the organisation, supervision, mentoring and training of undergraduate and/or postgraduate students and less experienced members of the project team to ensure their effective development.
10. Perform administrative tasks related to the activities of the research group and School, including Budgets/Expenditure.
11. Make a leading contribution to Teaching activities (e.g. demonstrating etc) and associated admin as assigned by the Head of School and in consultation with Principal Investigator.
12. Keep up to date with current knowledge and recent advances in the field/discipline, including: social epistemology (broadly construed, including epistemic autonomy and intellectual scaffolding)
13. Engage in personal, professional and career development, to enhance both specialist and transferable skills in accordance with desired career trajectory.
14. Undertake any other reasonable duties as required by the Head of School, Head of Department and project team leaders (Levy and Carter).
15. Contribute to the enhancement of the University’s international profile in line with the University’s Strategic Plan, World Changers Together

**Knowledge/Qualifications**

**Essential**
A1 Normally Scottish Credit and Qualification Framework level 12 (PhD in Philosophy) or alternatively possess the equivalent in professional qualifications and experience, with experience of personal development in a similar or related role(s)
A3 Knowledge of project-specific technical models, equipment or techniques

**Skills**

**Essential**
C1 Sufficient depth of relevant research experience, normally including sufficient postdoctoral experience in a related field, appropriate to an early career researcher

**Experience**

**Essential**
E1 Proven ability to deliver quality outputs in a timely and efficient manner
E2 A track record of presentation and publication of research results in quality journals/conferences
E3 Experience of making a leading contribution in academic activities
E4 Ability to demonstrate a degree of independence as illustrated by identification of project objectives from assessment of the literature, design & analysis of experiments & drafting of papers.
E4 Experience in undertaking independent research
E5 Commitment to open research, as appropriate to the discipline, through open data, open code, open educational resources and practices that support replication.
E6 Proven commitment to supporting the career development of colleagues and to other forms of collegiality appropriate to the career stage.
Project overview: ‘
**Expanding Autonomy: Scaffolded, Embedded and Distributed’**
Expanding Autonomy: Scaffolded, Embedded and Distributed’ is a grant funded by the AHRC, hosted collaboratively between the University of Glasgow and the University of Oxford, led by Prof Neil Levy (PI) and Dr J Adam Carter (Co-I). The research associate, who will be based at Glasgow/COGITO Epistemology Research Centre, will be working with the PI and Co-I to produce research, knowledge exchange and impact in the service of the following guiding project objectives:

1. Reconceptualising autonomy, in the light of the latest developments in the science of human agency (especially epistemic agency). Autonomy will be rethought as deeply social: scaffolded by the environment and by other people, and as embe