Researcher, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
Deadline date: Midday on Tuesday 4 January 2022
Grade 6: £29,614-£35,326 per annum
Professor Linda Mulcahy is looking for a research assistant to help her in the final stages of an ESRC funded research project based at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (CSLS), University of Oxford. The project is being carried out with Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunal Service as a project partner, and in close collaboration with members of the judiciary. The overall goal of the project is to produce a series of public information films for use by lay users of the justice system when preparing for an online hearing. Professor Mulcahy is working on this project with Dr Anna Tsalapatanis (CSLS) and Dr Emma Rowden (Oxford Brookes University) and the person appointed will work alongside other members of the team. The person appointed will be expected to attend team meetings in Oxford but work remotely (expected to be in the UK) and it may be possible to work flexibly and/or as a job share.
The main focus of the work will be assisting in the development of a user-friendly design toolkit for HMCTS which will allow others to produce a suite of films using the images and text templates produced by the project to date.
The successful candidate should hold a first degree and masters degree, together with some relevant experience; an ability to work deadlines and in a team; excellent writing and research skills; ability to manage their own research and administrative activities to a high standard including copy editing; excellent communication skills, including the ability to write text that can be published, present data to colleagues and project partners, and represent the research group at meetings, and an interest in user-led research, facilitating research impact and engagement activities. Experience of producing accessible user-friendly materials for non-specialists and of working in a team and contributing ideas for new research projects is desirable.
This post is fixed term until 30 April 2022.
Applications for this vacancy are to be made online via www.recruit.ox.ac.uk and enter vacancy ID:. 154882. You will be required to submit a covering letter and CV as part of your application. If called for interview you will be asked to prepare a short exercise which will be sent to you a week before the interview.
Shortlisted applicants will be asked to arrange for two references to be submitted before the interviews take place.
Closing date for applications is midday on Tuesday 4 January 2022. Interviews will be held on Thursday 13 January 2022 (am).