Salary:
£41,526
FTE:
1 (35 hours/week)
Term:
Fixed Term for 30 months
Closing date:
Thursday, 4 March 2021
As a Research Fellow, you will engage as an independent
researcher in individual and collaborative research, establishing a distinctive
programme of research and disseminating results through regular publications in
high impact journals, books and conference proceedings.
This
research post is to be the lead researcher on the ESRC project Understanding Sexual Violence in Sex
Working Populations: Law, Legal Consciousness and Legal Practice in Four
Countries. Jane Scoular (Strathclyde), Teela Sanders (Leicester), Gillian
Abel, (New Zealand), Barb Brents (Nevada), Graham Ellison (Belfast). Our core question is: How do social, legal, and judicial
contexts shape the safety and well-being of people engaging in sex work? In
particular, how does context shape experiences of sexual violence? These questions will be addressed through a
multi-method study comparing four different legal environments: legalisation
(Nevada USA), criminalisation (Northern Ireland), decriminalisation (New
Zealand) and partial criminalisation (Great Britain). We will do this through
an online survey, interviews with a range of stake holders and sex workers, and
case reviews of crimes recently brought to court. We will engage sex work
organisations and peers as experts by experience in the design and development
of the project, with view to sharing across nations what works, resources and
best practice. This project will run from July 2021 for 30 months. Our project
website is at http://www.sexworkandsexualviolence.com/.
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 will have a strong track
record in quantitative skills, including design, administration and analysis
and be able to lead this part of the fieldwork across the four sites. You will
have an ability to plan and organise research programmes, to ensure successful
completion and you will have experience of planning and organising workloads,
including the ability to supervise and delegate work. You will have some
experience and demonstrable ability to work within a team environment and to
lead teams and excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the
ability to listen, engage and persuade, and to present complex information in
an accessible way to a range of audiences. You will be able to work across
partnerships and collaborations particularly in the creation of impacts and
dissemination stage.
Informal enquiries about the post can be directed to
Professor Jane Scoular, Principal Investigator - jane.scoular@strath.ac.uk
Formal interviews for this post are likely to be held on Friday, 19 March
2021.
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