Research Associate - In search of Hope: The Case of Elderly Life Sentenced Prisoners

Job reference: HUM-022050
Salary: £35,308 to £43,155 per annum, depending on relevant experience
Closing date: 23/06/2023
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Humanities
Location: Manchester
Employment type: Fixed Term
Division: Criminology
Hours Per Week: Full time
Closing date: 23/06/2023
Contract Duration: From October 2023 for 12 months
School / Directorate: School of Social Sciences

This interdisciplinary project is being led by Senior Lecturer Marion Vannier (Criminology), as part of her project funded by the UK Research and Innovation to explore the meaning and value of hope as a human right in the carceral environment with a focus on elderly life-sentenced prisoners in England and Wales.

The proposed project has four main objectives:

• To broaden our understanding of meaning and value of hope in criminal justice as a metric for designing ‘acceptable’ punishment, through desk research, face-to-face interviews and empirical fieldwork in prison.
• To develop our existing network of academics, policymakers, and policy-influencers focused on aging prisoners and human rights in the carceral environment.
• To produce a number of outputs, including journal articles, stakeholders’ reports, and a monograph.
• To organise a two day in-person workshop with academics, policymakers and policy influencers, to map potential policy responses to aging related issues.

Shortlisting is scheduled to take place in the week of the 1st of July.

Interviews are to be held the week commencing 10th July.

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.

Blended working arrangements may be considered.

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Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:
Name: Marion Vannier
Email: marion.vannier@manchester.ac.uk

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

Further particulars including job description and person specification are available on the University of Manchester website - click on the 'Apply' button above to find out more.

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