Post Doctoral Research Assistant

Part time - 0.5FTE, Fixed Term (12 Months)

Salary: Grade 5, is £18,833 - £20,679 per annum including London Weighting (The full-time equivalent salary for (Grade 5) £37,667- £41,359 per annum including London Weighting.

The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (Central) invites applications for a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant to support an AHRC funded project ‘Credible Witnesses: Young people, Life Performance, and Testimonial Injustice’.

You will be joining a vibrant research department and will work alongside the Principle Investigator on a 2 year interdisciplinary AHRC funded research project that engages with verbatim, testimonial and autobiographical performance and young people’s experiences of testimonial injustice.

You will have a research background in one or more of the following areas:

• Testimonial, autobiographical or other forms of self-authored performance
• Applied and/ or socially engaged theatre
• Participatory research methods, working with young people.

You will contribute to the research underpinning the project, help evaluate and analyse a series of  young people’s workshops and a touring performance,  interview practitioners and contribute to other aspects of the project delivery. 

We would like to hear from applicants who

• Have a PhD or who will have submitted by 3^rd June 2024
• Have experience of working creatively with young people in a range of applied and socially engaged theatre contexts
• Have experience of leading and analysing evaluation processes
• Have experience of working with young people or communities from under served communities.

Central has a nurturing and well-supported research environment and offers support to early career researchers.

The successful applicant would be required to undertake a Disclosure Barring Service (DBS).

Disability Confident Scheme

Central will shortly be launching the Disability Confident Scheme. This recruitment campaign forms part of a pilot to help us structure our ‘Disability Confident Committed’ framework. This is a government initiative aimed at promoting equal employment opportunities for disabled people and to create a workplace that is welcoming, inclusive and supportive.

We actively encourage disabled people to apply for our job vacancies, and we welcome applications from candidates with all types of disabilities. As part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we commit to offering an interview to a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum selection criteria for the job. To be considered for an interview under this scheme you must have:

• a physical or mental impairment, or a long-term health condition which has a substantial and long term (over 12 months) adverse effect on your ability to carry out normal day to day activities.
• demonstrated in your application that you meet the minimum job criteria as set out in the advert or person specification for the post.

We are committed to diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities, including neurodivergent candidates, LGBTQ+ and Global Majority backgrounds as they are currently underrepresented within the sector and within Central.

How to Apply

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If you would like to make an application for this post, please send your application forms to:  jobs@cssd.ac.uk by midday on 8 May 2024

It is anticipated that interviews and assessments will take place on 29 May 2024.