Location: | Edinburgh |
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Salary: | £48,350 to £59,421 per annum |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Permanent |
Placed On: | 15th April 2024 |
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Closes: | 6th May 2024 |
Job Ref: | 9856 |
Open-ended (permanent), Full-time (35 hours per week)
Child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA) is a global problem that requires a global response. However, the lack of reliable and comprehensive data relating to CSEA is a major inhibitor to developing more effective and evidence driven prevention and response strategies and policies.
The appointed candidate will be engaged in child protection research with significant experience in working with administrative data, which refers to any information that is created when people interact with public services – in this case child protection system actors such as health, education, policing, criminal justice, court, child helpline and other sources of data.
This Lecturer role will contribute their expertise to leading data courses on the new MSc in Child Protection Data Futures. This post will also contribute to serving as the inaugural Programme Director for this new master’s programme for the first three years. In addition, this post is expected to contribute data outputs and curating impact related to their work for the University’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise.
The appointed candidate will also have the opportunity to be affiliated with Childlight – Global Child Safety Institute and will be engaged in research on how to leverage existing child protection sector data strengths to boost the better use of CSEA data across government, civil society, academia, and private industry.
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