Research Associate - Survey Futures

The University of Manchester; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Manchester seeks a full-time Research Associate for the ESRC funded project 'Survey Futures'. This role involves methodological research, leadership and engagement activities aimed at enhancing the quality and effectiveness of social surveys in the UK, alongside a collaborative team from various organizations.

Benefits

Market leading Pension scheme

Employee health and wellbeing services

Exceptional annual leave entitlement

Paid closure over Christmas period

Local and national discounts

Qualifications

• Understanding of survey methods and statistics.
• Commitment to rigorous evaluation.
• Effective dissemination skills.

Responsibilities

• Conduct methodological research for the Survey Futures project.
• Engage in training and capacity building activities.
• Collaborate with university investigators and partners.

Skills

Survey methods

Statistics

Effective dissemination

Job description

Applications are sought for a talented and ambitious full-time Research Associate to carry out methodological research, leadership, management and engagement activities for the ESRC funded project: SDCMC: Survey Data Collection Methods Collaboration: Securing the Future of Social Surveys, to be known as Survey Futures.

Survey Futures is a collaboration between nine universities and three survey organisations, in partnership with the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) and the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Its objective is to deliver a step-change in survey research to ensure that it will remain possible in the UK to carry out high-quality social surveys of the kinds required by the public and academic sectors. The post is based in the Social Statistics Department, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, and will involve working on methodological research and theoretical development for Survey Futures, together with the University of Manchester investigators, Dr Alexandru Cernat and Professor Natalie Shlomo, in collaboration with partners across participating organisations. The Director is Professor Peter Lynn of ISER, the University of Essex and the Deputy Director is Dr Olga Maslovskaya, University of Southampton. The appointment will be funded for 9 months.

Survey Futures aims to assess the quality implications of the most important survey design choices relevant to future UK social surveys, to provide good practice guidance and practical training materials, and to identify promising ways to improve the capacity and skillset of both interviewers and research professionals.

This post will mainly contribute to one of the Survey Futures research strands: "Research Strand 7: Data integration" and to training and capacity building and other activities of the collaboration.

The post requires an understanding of survey methods and statistics, and a commitment to rigorous evaluation and to effective dissemination.

What you will get in return:

• Fantastic market leading Pension scheme
• Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme
• Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays
• Additional paid closure over the Christmas period
• Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.

Our University is positive about flexible working - you can find out more here

Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.

Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.

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Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Name: Alexandru Cernat

Email: [e-mail]

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This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.

Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.