Research Associate or Fellow (Fixed term until 15th October 2025)

Wage Vary

£37,100 – £44,263 professional rata every year

Faculty/Division

Faculty of Psychology

Liverpool John Moores College (LJMU) is a particular, distinctive establishment, rooted within the Liverpool Metropolis Area and with a world presence. Our college students and employees, previous, current, and future, are the beating coronary heart of our metropolis and may be present in each nook of each trade and neighborhood. We couldn’t exist wherever else and have formed town by which we belong. Working with the folks of Liverpool to enhance lives and help communities is on the coronary heart of why we have been based and why we exist in the present day.

We’re searching for an distinctive particular person to affix us as a Submit-Doctoral Analysis Affiliate or Fellow on a part-time foundation, for a set time period till fifteenth October 2025. You’ll work with Dr Darren Chadwick to undertake a multi-site analysis undertaking, IncludeAge, located broadly inside the analysis space of inclusive and age-friendly locations to help the digital and geographical neighborhood inclusion under-researched and under-served older teams in society. The undertaking is led by the College of Dundee by Professor Judith Sixsmith.

Many older folks expertise exclusion from the communities they reside in. The World Well being Organisation has recognised this via their Age Pleasant Cities and Communities programme, which inspires the event of various areas and locations to enhance older peoples’ inclusion of their communities and cities. Traditionally and politically folks with mental and developmental disabilities (IDD) and individuals who determine as lesbian, homosexual, bi, trans + (LGBT+) have been socially excluded from their communities all through their lives; when folks with IDD have been housed in establishments and homosexuality was seen as an sickness or criminalised. These life experiences put older folks from these two teams at larger threat of inequality, discrimination, and exclusion in neighborhood contexts. Utilizing on-line expertise has additionally been troublesome for older folks, notably for individuals who already expertise exclusion akin to these with IDD and people figuring out as LGBT+. Thus far, little or no analysis has been carried out with these two teams to listen to their experiences of native and on-line neighborhood inclusion and exclusion and to higher perceive how neighborhood inclusion may be strengthened in England and Scotland.

The analysis is organised in 5 associated work packages, collectively led by college researchers and practitioners in third sector and neighborhood organisations. All levels shall be guided by folks with lived expertise in IDD and LGBT+ in advisory teams. Folks with IDD and LGBT+ lived expertise will work as skilled co-researchers on the undertaking. We’ll use a wide range of verbal, visible and geographical strategies to entry marginalised voices in applicable methods and allow various folks’s views to emerge.

You’ll work on the a part of the undertaking specializing in older folks with mental disabilities. You’ll undertake and help analysis actions together with the manufacturing of literature opinions, making use of for moral approval, managing and conducting qualitative and quantitative analysis actions, and analysing qualitative and quantitative datasets. Additionally, you will conduct data translation and mobilisation workshops, current analysis work in seminars and conferences and co-write for publications. Lastly, you’ll assist to determine future funding alternatives and co-write and submit analysis proposal to native, nationwide, and worldwide funding our bodies.

Candidates who’re concerned with analysis within the areas of psychology, well being and social sciences, environmental gerontology and/or folks, place and neighborhood research ought to apply. The programme of analysis broadly covers Ageing and place, whereby age pleasant cities and communities, in addition to workplaces, leisure shops and the (care) residence surroundings may be designed to fulfil the psychological, social, cultural and well being wants of older folks whereas avoiding the exclusion of different inhabitants teams.

 In return, we provide a wonderful advantages bundle together with beneficiant annual depart entitlement, pension scheme, induction, and growth help in addition to family-friendly insurance policies.

That is an thrilling time to affix the college as we ship the LJMU Technique 2030 and its imaginative and prescient of LJMU as an inclusive civic college reworking lives and futures, by putting college students on the coronary heart of every little thing we do.

When you really feel that that is the position you’ve been searching for and your expertise and expertise could make an actual distinction at LJMU, we stay up for listening to from you.

LJMU values variety and offers a supportive and inclusive surroundings the place everybody can fulfil their potential.

Please notice all of our vacancies shall be closed to functions at midnight on the marketed time limit, except in any other case acknowledged.

LJMU are dedicated to adhering to the Ideas set out within the Researcher Growth Concordat; in step with this all fixed-term researchers shall be supported to finish 10 days skilled growth actions per 12 months (pro-rata).