Research Fellow in Law

Job title:

Analysis Fellow in Regulation

Firm

The Open College

Job description

Location:

Phrases: Everlasting, Full-Time submit 37 hours per week

Time limit: twenty ninth March 2024, 12 midday

Versatile working patterns shall be thought-about.

It’s anticipated {that a} hybrid working sample might be adopted for this function, the place the profitable candidate can earn a living from home and the workplace. Nevertheless, as this function is contractually aligned to our Milton Keynes workplace it’s anticipated that some attendance within the workplace shall be required when obligatory and in response to enterprise wants. We would anticipate this to be roughly a couple of times per week.

Change your profession, change lives

The Open College is the UK’s largest college, a world chief in versatile part-time schooling combining a mission to widen entry to larger schooling with analysis excellence, reworking lives by schooling.

Concerning the Unit

The College of Enterprise and Regulation is among the 4 colleges of The Open College. It brings collectively two Colleges – and – and has a robust fame as a high-quality and revolutionary supplier of administration and authorized schooling. Our programs and {qualifications} are studied by a variety of individuals from all backgrounds – we’re pleased with our robust social mission; to be open to individuals, locations, strategies and concepts. We promote social justice and social mobility by way of real entry to college schooling for all.

The College employs round 130 tutorial employees, two thirds of whom are based mostly at The Open College’s Milton Keynes campus and one third within the OU’s regional places of work, aligned to the College’s three Scholar Assist Groups. The regional teachers handle the College’s 700 Affiliate Lecturers. Round 80 academic-related and administrative members of employees assist the College.

We’re dedicated to creating our employees to realize their full potential and supply a variety of formal and casual coaching and growth alternatives to assist particular person and College goals.

Concerning the Centre

The Centre for Defending Ladies On-line is funded by a £7.7 million grant from Analysis England. It is going to be a automobile for understanding and addressing challenges posed to ladies’s security on-line by a novel, interdisciplinary and impressive analysis agenda. This shall be mixed with cross-sectoral, collaborative outputs and interventions which inform legislation, coverage, know-how growth and follow to scale back on-line harms suffered by ladies and ladies; minimise anti-social behaviours on-line while selling pro-social behaviours and assist construct tech/ software program that helps guarantee accountability, credibility and helps facilitate justice. The work of the Centre shall be delivered by a administration and 5 interwoven Work Streams. Professor Jurasz leads on the Regulation & Coverage stream.

The function

The Open College is recruiting a extremely motivated Analysis Fellow to work within the Centre for Defending Ladies On-line funded by Analysis England. The profitable candidate will work carefully with Professor Olga Jurasz, Director of the Centre for Defending Ladies On-line, who is predicated within the Regulation Faculty and who leads the Centre’s cross-disciplinary analysis group. We’re on the lookout for an adaptive Analysis Fellow who would search to play an lively half in constructing a robust, open and revolutionary analysis tradition within the Centre. The Analysis Fellow will use their analysis data, abilities and expertise to contribute to the design and supply of an formidable analysis programme throughout the Regulation & Coverage work stream. This consists of (however just isn’t restricted to) initiating and main on analysis tasks, making use of for exterior analysis funding, supervising PhD college students, producing prime quality outputs, working collaboratively with non-academic companions and stakeholders.

The postholder shall be anticipated to contribute to analysis and administration throughout the Centre for Defending Ladies On-line. This consists of proactive engagement in analysis, data change and impact-related actions to ship Centre’s goals. They’ll work collaboratively with centre’s companions and researchers in addition to Provoke and construct new partnerships resulting in purposes for exterior analysis funding related to the Regulation & Coverage stream. They’ll take a lead function in dissemination of analysis carried out throughout the Regulation & Coverage stream of the Centre (together with writing tutorial and non-academic publications; presentation of analysis findings at conferences and occasions; speaking analysis to non-academic and lay audiences by way of media).

Abilities and expertise

The candidate is predicted to carry a PhD in a legislation related to the Centre’s work throughout the legislation & coverage stream. They should have substantial related expertise of conducting analysis in collaboration with non-academic companions and/ or working with non-academic companions in addition to data and understanding of the present legislation and coverage panorama regarding ladies’s on-line security. Understanding of analysis funding panorama and a robust observe report of making use of for analysis funding is essential to assist centre’s growth and earnings era. The candidate shall be anticipated to develop a high-quality publication report that’s REF returnable and related to the work of the Regulation & Coverage stream. A powerful report of analysis and/or data change that’s commensurate to the place.

Extra info might be supplied by way of a hyperlink to the Job Description.

If you need to debate the appliance or recruitment course of earlier than making an software, please contact Emma Jones at Resourcing Hub on 01908 655544 or quoting the reference VRF 21521.

What you get in return

We have now a robust dedication to offering coaching and growth in and past your present function. This consists of thorough induction into the organisation and common opinions of your coaching and growth wants.

We additionally supply a fantastic vary of advantages that assist our workers and their households for the long run. embrace a beautiful pension proposition and 33 days vacation each year professional rata, plus Financial institution Holidays and Christmas closure days.

Anticipated wage

£45585 – 49794 per yr

Location

Milton Keynes

Job date

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 02:52:06 GMT

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