Senior Research Fellow

About ARU:

ARU is a global university transforming lives through innovative, inclusive and entrepreneurial education and research. ARU holds a Gold award for the quality of its education, awarded through the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF).

ARU’s research institutes and four faculties bridge scientific, technical and creative fields.  We deliver impactful research which tackles pressing issues and makes a real difference to our communities.  Our academic excellence has been recognised by the UK’s Higher Education funding bodies, with 16 of our research areas assessed as world leading. We are the largest provider of Nursing, Midwifery, Health and Social Care students in the East of England, and we are also among the UK’s leading universities for degree apprenticeship provision, working with hundreds of employers across the UK.

About the Role:

We are looking for three Senior Research Fellows who will undertake independent and collaborative research including the preparation of research proposals and applications. They will also lead and manage consultancy and other external client services. The new Centre will have a strongly collaborative approach with local, regional, and national uniformed public services organisations to tackle issues around equality, diversity, and inclusion.  These roles will also include work to support both PIER and the VFI.

The post holders will have the opportunity to develop their academic experience and portfolio including working collaboratively with a strong and dynamic team of internationally leading experts who have come together to develop this new Centre, as well as supporting the research excellence within both VFI & PIER.

One of these SRF posts will be aligned to the Centre for Military Women’s Research, which will be an important research group within the new UKRI-funded Equalities Centre. If you have extensive research experience of working on military women’s research, please indicate this in your application for consideration for this specific role.

The successful candidate will have a Degree plus PhD or Professional Doctorate or Professional qualification in a relevant subject area and with significant research experience with the uniformed public service sector in at least one of the following areas: military, prisons, police, fire and rescue, paramedics. They will have experience of leading research projects involving applied qualitative and/or quantitative research.

Informal enquiries can be made to the team at e3centre@aru.ac.uk

Find out more about working with us.

We have an agile working culture and offer an extensive range of benefits including a generous holiday entitlement, occupational pension schemes, training and development opportunities, travel to work scheme and a competitive relocation package. Visit our benefits page for full details.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting welfare of our staff and students and expect all staff to share this commitment. Applicants should be aware that ARU will carry out online searches as part of the due diligence on short listed candidates.

We value diversity at ARU and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We have a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

Committed to being inclusive and open to discuss flexible working. 

Guidance Notes: 

For a list of key requirements, please download the Job Description and Person Specification above. To apply for this role please demonstrate how your skills and experience match the criteria in the person specification. 

We reserve the right to close this vacancy once we have received sufficient applications.