Post-doctoral Researcher

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About the role

This is a key role in a new Nuffield Foundation grant, to help with the smooth day-to-day running of the project as well as to help the Investigators to effectively analyse, publish and disseminate the findings and other outcomes of the study

The project intends to robustly evaluate an existing research-informed programme, Love to Read, which was created for primary school children (aged 8-11) to increase their reading motivation and engagement. This project is funded by the Nuffield Foundation.

The appointment is available for 20 months in the first instance.

About you

You will have a PhD degree in psychology with excellent academic record, evidence of practical experience of research in primary school contexts/intervention research and knowledge of reading motivation and/or engagement research.

Your application form should address all the person specification points and should clearly demonstrate how your skills and experience meet each of the criteria.

It is important that the criteria are clearly numbered and that you provide a response to each one.

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