Research Assistant

2 weeks ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom Birmingham City University Full time

Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom (On-site)

JOB INFO
Job Identification
552
- Job Category
Academic and Research
- Posting Date
05/20/2025, 04:32 AM

06/08/2025, 05:59 PM
- Job Schedule
Part time
- Job Shift
Standard
- Locations
- Health, Education and Life Sciences

(On-site)
- **Research Assistant: Deafblind UK Centre for Education and Research**

**The full-time starting salary is normally £35,232.00 per annum, with progression available in post to £38,297.00 per annum. This will be pro-rated in line with your working arrangement of 18.5 hours per week at 0.5 FTE.**

**Part Time**

**3 Years Fixed Term**

**Grade: RA**

Birmingham City University is a dynamic and diverse academic community, with a strong track record of delivering excellent education. We embrace a practice-led, knowledge-based and research-informed approach to our teaching.

Our new **Deafblind UK Centre for Education and Research**, the first of its kind in the UK, connects researchers, practitioners and people living with deafblindness, and plays a vital role in raising awareness of deafblindness and responding to the urgent need for more research in the field. It also equips junior researchers and the workforce with the knowledge and skills to become future leaders in deafblindness research and practice. Based at the City South Campus, the Centre is at the heart of the city and close to the many institutions and social constituencies with whom we work.

At Birmingham City University we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. All staff are expected to understand and enact the University’s commitment to ensuring equality, diversity and inclusion in our employment practice and in all that we do. This commitment is enshrined in our Core Values and is detailed in our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Employment Policy. The University values and celebrates the diversity of our staff and students; we welcome people from the many different backgrounds and life experiences that reflect the students and the citizens we serve.

If you wish to know more about this role, or for an informal discussion please contact:
**Dr Peter Simcock**

Associate Professor of Social Work

Lead for the Deafblind UK Centre for Education and Research

Interview Date**:Tuesday 24th June 2025**

**JOB DESCRIPTION**

ABOUT US
- At the heart of our Strategy for 2030 and Beyond, it is our mission to enable our students to transform their lives and to achieve their potential. Through our education and research, and the roles our graduates go on to play in the world, we not only support individuals to transform their lives, but we also play a part in transforming society.
Located in the centre of the UK’s second city, we are a university with a long heritage of innovation and of making, dating back to our origins in 1843 when we were founded as the Birmingham Government School of Design.



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