FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND LAW
SCHOOL OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL POLICY
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
RESEARCH FELLOW
With the ESRC Research Group for the Study of Care, Values and the Future
of Welfare (CAVA), www.leeds.ac.uk/cava
This post is available from mid-October 2003 for a fixed term of 5 months.
Responsible to Professor Fiona Williams, Director of CAVA, you will be
required to assist in the research for, and production of, a publication
for the Gulbenkian Foundation to be aimed at policy-makers, on the future
of parenting and partnering. This will involve: providing literature
searches and summaries of relevant research data, policies and innovative
policy/ practice; presenting information and statistical data in a creative
and accessible way for publication and proof-reading, and preparing a
bibliography and index.
A good undergraduate degree and postgraduate qualification in social
policy/ sociology or closely related area together with the completion of
independently written, high quality, research is essential as is the
ability to write clearly and accessibly. You will also have knowledge of
UK social policy and research relevant to changes on parenting and
partnering. Your research skills will involve reviewing and selecting
literature; primary/secondary data collection and critical analysis. You
should be self-motivating and able to use your own initiative.
Experience of collaborative working is desirable, as are publications,
experience of qualitative research, computer-assisted data analysis and
editorial work.
Research IA (£18,265 –£22,191 p.a.)
Application pack from Steve Mosby, CAVA, Dept. of Sociology and Social
Policy, The University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT email [log in to unmask]
tel 0113 343
Alternatively you can apply on line by visiting www.leeds.ac.uk and click
on 'jobs'.
Job Ref : 002831 Closing Date 8 September 2003
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Dr. Keleigh Groves
Communications Co-ordinator
ESRC Research Group for the Study of Care, Values & the Future of Welfare
(CAVA)
Department of Sociology and Social Policy
University of Leeds
LS2 9JT
Tel: 0113 343 4605
Web: www.leeds.ac.uk/cava
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