Social Policy

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an early career researcher to join a highly successful, applied social science research unit at the University of York. The Unit has an international reputation for its research in the fields of health and social care. Based in the Social Policy Research Unit (SPRU), you will be working on two prestigious...

Closing Date :  28/10/2016 Employment Type :  Fixed Term Duration :  As soon as possible until 30 September 2017 Faculty / Organisational Unit :  Humanities School/Directorate :  School of Arts, Languages and Cultures Division :  Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute Hours Per week :  Full time...

Location: Park Campus Fixed Term - 12 months The Research Assistant, located within the Faculty of Education and Humanities, will undertake a variety of supervised and self-sustained research, organisation and dissemination activities as part of the ESRC-FAPESP-Newton funded research project ‘Reconnect the nexus: young Brazilians'...

Background The Public Health team comprises academics with extensive experience in higher education. Our teaching spans undergraduate, postgraduate and professional education. Our research and scholarship is often collaborative, working with university, local, national and international partners e.g. HIV and sexual health; child obesity and healthy...

This is an exciting opportunity for an outstanding individual with the vision and ambition to provide leadership and to shape the future of research on the effects of public policies and income distribution in cross-national perspective, making use of EUROMOD. EUROMOD is the multi-country tax-benefit microsimulation model, unique in its coverage of the...

The Institute for Social and Economic Research wishes to appoint a professorial-level researcher to the ESRC-funded Research Centre on Micro-Social Change (MiSoC). The successful candidate will have the ambition and ability to build on MiSoC’s record of the past two decades, to help shape a new research agenda, and to help lead MiSoC beyond 2019....

The ISER Directorship provides an exciting opportunity for an outstanding individual with the vision and ambition to shape ISER’s future development and direction. Established over 25 years ago, ISER is one of the world’s leading quantitative social research institutes, known for its expertise in the collection and analysis of longitudinal...

The University of Oxford seeks to appoint an outstanding candidate to the Stanley Lewis Professorship of Israel Studies from 1 September 2017 or as soon as possible thereafter. The appointment will be based in the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies and the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography or the Department of Economics or the...

 RAND Europe is not-for-profit organisation that conducts independent research.  Our mission is to help improve policy and decision making through evidence-based research and analysis. We realise our mission by undertaking objective, balanced and relevant research, sharing the insights and information widely, and working in partnership with a...

Every hour, another person in the UK goes blind. When someone loses their sight, we're here to make sure they don't lose their freedom as well. Change a life.  Join our team at Guide Dogs. An exciting opportunity has presented itself for a Canine Research Assistant to become an integral member of the Canine Research Team. This team are...