Research Associate

Role Description

Department

York Law School is driven by a shared commitment to collaboration and to the impact of scholarly research outside academia and the positive differences it can make to the lives of individuals and communities. Research within the School builds on a rich tradition of strong, impactful interdisciplinary work, drawing on legal ideas, methods, and frameworks to frame and reshape agendas on key social challenges.

York Law School (YLS) wishes to recruit a Research Associate with excellent qualitative research and communication skills with experience of conducting independent or collaborative research to work on the ESRC Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre funded research project Defendants as Victims: a scoping review of vulnerability, victimhood and safeguards from charge to conviction. The post is fixed-term for 12 months at 80% FTE and will start on 1 September 2023. You will work closely with co-investigators Dr Ailbhe O’Loughlin and Dr Kate Leader of YLS and contribute to a scoping review of the academic and grey literature on vulnerable defendants and defendants who are also victims of crime, identifying priority areas for law reform. One output from this project will be a scoping paper submitted to the Law Commission of England and Wales. The paper will consider whether and, if so, how a future Law Commission project might review the way the law should treat defendants who are also victims of crime.

You will work with and support project activities that include: collecting data, liaising with project partners, interviewing stakeholders, report-writing, organisation of consultation and dissemination events, and preparing publications for high quality peer-reviewed journals.

Role

• To conduct research under the supervision of senior colleagues and to contribute to the production of a scoping review of the academic and grey literature on vulnerable defendants and defendants who are also victims of crime.
• To contribute to organising consultation events with stakeholders and disseminating the findings of the research.
• To contribute to the preparation of publications arising from the research.
• To assist in the identification and development of potential areas of research and the development of proposals for independent or collaborative research projects

Skills, Experience & Qualification Needed

You will have

• A PhD or equivalent experience in law, criminology or a cognate area.
• Knowledge of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice to be able to engage in high quality research
• Knowledge of a range of social science research techniques and methodologies
• Highly developed communication skills to engage effectively with a wide range of audiences, both orally and in writing, using a range of media
• Ability to conduct research interviews
• Ability to write up research work for publication in high profile journals and engage in stakeholder dissemination
• Experience of carrying out independent research
• Experience of using a range social science research methods
• A collaborative ethos

Interview date: 21 June 2023

For informal enquiries: please contact Dr Kate Leader (kate.leader@york.ac.uk) or Dr Ailbhe O’Loughlin (ailbhe.oloughlin@york.ac.uk)

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We particularly encourage applications from people who identify as Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic background, who are underrepresented at the University.

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