Part-time Researcher
Deadline date: Midday on Monday 4 January 2021
Grade 6: £29,176-£34,804 per annum pro rata
Oxford University is undertaking a major research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust which seeks to explore the effects that competition law might have on wealth distribution. The project’s overarching aim is to develop a better, and empirically grounded, understanding of the ways in which competition law legislation, and its enforcement, might materially affect the distribution of wealth and economic inequality. Reflecting the interdisciplinary and innovative nature of the research, the project comprises a mix of specialists in law and economics. The main project team based in Oxford comprises Professor Ariel Ezrachi, Dr Christopher Decker and Mr. Amit Zac. The project webpage can be found here:https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/effect-competition-policy-economic-inequality
We are seeking to appoint an economic researcher on a part-time basis to join our team and work with us on this exciting and ambitious project. The researcher will primarily assist in developing and applying empirical techniques and models used as part of the project. The post holder will report to Dr. Christopher Decker.
The successful candidate will manage their own research and administrative activities, within guidelines provided by colleagues within the research group, and contribute to wider project planning, including ideas for new research directions; select, follow, and adapt specialist methodologies to confirm or refute theories related to literature on economic inequality; identify suitable data alternatives where the data collected by the team is still limited, including the identification of new sources of data and contribute to the design of research techniques, revamping the modelling and estimation strategy for the overarching research question(s) of the project.
The postholder should have an interest in the issues of economic inequality and competition economics and policy and will be expected to participate fully and enthusiastically with the project team and steering committee; have a postgraduate degree in a related field, such as economics and/or political science, and may be working towards a doctorate; extensive knowledge and proven experience of working with statistical programmes such as R, Stata and/or Python and possess sufficient specialist knowledge in the discipline to work within established research programmes.
The post holder will be expected to begin work on 1 February 2021. The post is fixed term until 31 January 2022 and offered on a part time basis for 2 days per week (15 hours or 0.4 FTE)
Applications for this vacancy are to be made online via https://www.jobs.ox.ac.uk/ and enter vacancy ID: 148656. You will need to submit a CV and covering letter as part of your application.
Please arrange for two references to be sent to recruitment@law.ox.ac.uk by the closing date.
The closing date for applications is midday on 4 January 2021. Interviews are to be held on Friday, 8 January 2021.