About ARUJob Category
Teaching, Research & Scholarship
Vacancy Type
Fixed term contract
Fixed Term Duration
2 years
Employment Type
Full time
Salary From
£37,999
Salary To
£43,878
Location
Chelmsford/Cambridge/Peterborough
Faculty/Prof Service
Faculty of Business & Law
Closing Date
05/01/2025
Ref No
3256
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- Job Description Person Specification (PDF , 121.05kb)
- Candidate Brief (PDF , 31046.37kb)
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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
This is an exciting opportunity for a post-doctoral researcher to join a new Economic and Social Research Council funded project in the Faculty of Business and Law at ARU. The project, led by Prof Sian Moore, explores the 2022-23 strikes in three public services, rail, health, and teaching, utilising first-hand participant accounts that explore the processes, dynamics, meanings and significance of strikes using a bottom-up approach focussed on workers, but located within their institutional, political, economic and social contexts and highlighting variation between services and occupations. It explores how recent industrial action has seen diversity of participation in terms of race, gender and age and, using an intersectional lens, how different identities may be articulated in industrial action.
You'll have a degree plus PhD, or nearing completion (or other post-graduate research qualification), in an area related to work and employment, industrial relations or work sociology and will have a strong understanding of the relationship between race, gender and class in the workplace. You will conduct independent and collaborative research, using qualitative biographical narrative methods. Experience of working with trade unions and/or social movements is essential.
Informal enquiries can be made to Prof Sian Moore, Professor of Work and Employment, at sian.moore@aru.ac.uk
Find out more about working with us and how we recruit .
We have an agile working culture and offer an extensive range of benefits including 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 and volunteers 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.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy once we have received sufficient applications.
Guidance Notes
Please download the Job Description Person Specification for key requirements. To apply, demonstrate how your skills and experience meet the criteria.
