Research Fellow

Hours: 0.8 FTE / 29.2 hours

Requests for flexible working options will be considered (subject to business need).

Contract: fixed term until 30September 2024 for 18 months 

Closing date:  14 February 2023. Applications must be received by midnight of the closing date.

Expected Interview date: To be confirmed

Expected start date: 01 April 2023

A Postdoctoral Psychology Researcher is needed for a new industry-funded research project at the University of Sussex. The project aims to provide a new analysis of concert and festival goers’ experiences of safety and atmosphere at live music events. The work will involve interviews and questionnaire surveys to understand experiences and examine a predictive model.

The project is led by Professor John Drury (School of Psychology). The post will involve being the lead researcher on two empirical studies. First, an interview study with ~25 people who have recently attended live music events. Second, a questionnaire survey with up to 2000 attendees, administered online.

Specific duties will include: designing and carrying out interviews over Zoom; thematically analysing interviews: obtaining ethical clearance; designing and carrying out web-based questionnaire surveys (e.g., using Qualtrics), including via a QR code; analysing questionnaire survey data using advanced statistical methods (including factor analysis, structural equation modelling, mediation and moderation, in R and SPSS); literature review; writing up research studies for publication; communicating scientific findings to non-academic audiences.

The postholder will be supported by a clerical assistant and will work closely with a statistics consultant for the survey.

The University of Sussex is a leading research and teaching institution and is ranked within the top 20 in the UK and the top 150 in the world. The School of Psychology at the University of Sussex is one of the largest centres for the study of psychology in the UK. The School was rated in the top 20 in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework. The School has been awarded a Athena Swan Silver Award.

Please contact Prof John Drury, email: j.drury@sussex.ac.uk for informal enquiries.

The University is committed to equality and valuing diversity, and applications are particularly welcomed from women and black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic posts in Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Mathematics (STEMM) at Sussex.

For full details and how to apply see our vacancies page

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