Salary: £33,309
FTE: 1 (Full time)
Term: Fixed Term (24 months)
Closing date: 13 March 2022
The School of Education at the
University of Strathclyde is seeking to appoint a full-time Postdoctoral
Research Associate on a fixed-term basis from May 2022 until April 2024,
contributing to the research project 'Is school absenteeism harmful to education
and labour market outcomes?'. This secondary data analysis project is funded by
the Nuffield Foundation and will draw on two prospective longitudinal datasets,
the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) and the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS),
linking school administrative data from the National Pupil Database. It will
investigate the extent to which school absences are associated with pupils'
educational attainment and labour market returns and whether psychosocial
dispositions mediate these. In addition, the project will examine if these
associations vary by children and young people's sociodemographic
characteristics from an intersectional perspective. Finally, the project will
involve working closely with the Nuffield Foundation and policymakers to
improve young people's life course outcomes. The work builds on the successful
ESRC project undertaken by Drs Klein & Sosu in the School of Education.
As a Postdoctoral Research
Associate, under the general guidance of the PI and Co-I, you will play a lead
role in this Nuffield Foundation research project. Your main tasks include
conducting collaborative research to achieve the project's objectives.
Specifically, you will be responsible for accessing and managing complex
longitudinal data, learning, and applying advanced quantitative methods,
synthesising the literature on key aspects of the project, writing up research
for reports, publications, policy and media briefs, and disseminating the
findings through conference presentations and knowledge exchange events.
To be considered for the role,
you will be educated to a minimum of PhD level in an appropriate discipline or
have significant relevant experience in addition to a relevant degree. You
should have sufficient breadth or depth of knowledge in advanced quantitative
methods, causal inference, and longitudinal data analysis; experience in
managing longitudinal data; ability to conduct collaborative research work; and
the dissemination of research findings. Additionally, you should have the
ability to plan and organise your workload effectively and work within a team
environment. Finally, you should have excellent interpersonal and communication
skills, with the ability to listen, engage and persuade, and present complex
information in an accessible way to a range of audiences.
Whilst not essential for the
role, we welcome applications from candidates with experience in knowledge
exchange activities and the analysis of school administrative data.
Formal interviews for this post will be held on Monday, 28 March
2022.
Informal enquiries about the post can be directed to Markus Klein, Senior Lecturer (markus.klein@strath.ac.uk/
0141 444 8120).
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