Horizon TRACE - Research Fellow

Contract Type: Fixed Term contract up to September 2029

Role summary

The TRACE project is a Horizon Europe funded research programme examining technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) across the conflict, transit and refuge continuum. The project brings together an international consortium of researchers and stakeholders to generate robust, comparative evidence and inform policy and practice.

TRACE aims to build the first cross-context evidence base on TFGBV across diverse geographical and socio-political settings, to develop a shared typology and methodological framework to support consistent analysis and comparison, and to produce evidence-based guidance to strengthen policy, prevention strategies and accountability mechanisms.

We are seeking a highly motivated Research Fellow to join the Horizon Europe funded TRACE project, an international research programme examining technology-facilitated gender-based violence across the conflict, transit and refuge continuum.

Main duties

• Monitor assigned tasks, milestones, and outputs in line with the Work Package Leads ensuring timely and high-quality contribution to project deliverables.
• Actively collaborate with researchers across other work packages to support shared methods, synthesis, and comparative analysis
• Participate in TRACE governance and coordination structures, including consortium meetings, work package meetings, and relevant thematic groups
• Contribute to the Research Fellow Coordination Network along with the project’s PI and other cross-consortium forums as appropriate
• Provide timely updates on progress, risks, and dependencies to the Work Package Lead and project management team
• Support stakeholder engagement activities with the PI and project management team
• Assist work package leads with ensuring full compliance with TRACE requirements on ethics, safeguarding, and data protection, embedding these as core elements of research delivery

Person specification

• A PhD relevant to the research area (or near completion), or equivalent PhD level qualifications.
• High level analytical capability
• Ability to communicate complex information clearly
• Fluency in relevant models, techniques or methods and ability to contribute to developing new ones
• Ability to assess resource requirements and use resources effectively
• Understanding of and ability to contribute to broader management/administration processes
• Contribute to the planning and organising of the research programme and/or specific research project

Informal enquiries to Heather Flowe, email: h.flowe@bham.ac.uk 

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