Job Description
Grade UE06: £34,132 to £35,116 per annum pro-rata
CAHSS / Moray House School of Education & Sport
Part-time: 14 hours per week
Fixed-term: 31st March 2026
The Opportunity
We are looking for a dynamic and organised Research Assistant. This post will make a key contribution to the research grant ‘International and Canadian Child Rights Partnership’. You will assist with the research on child activism, support secondary data analysis, and support the University’s contribution to the Partnership.
This post is part-time (14 hours per week.) We are open to considering flexible working patterns and/or splitting the available 14 hours per week, in-line with the responsibilities of the post.
We are also open to considering requests for hybrid working (on a non-contractual basis) that combine a mix of remote and regular on-campus working, subject to the project’s needs (which includes face-to-face fieldwork and meetings in Scotland).
Your Skills And Attributes For Success
- Good knowledge of participatory methods with children
- Good knowledge of children’s human rights, and a commitment to respect them
- Methodological expertise in how to design, undertake and analyse qualitative research with children and adults
- Excellent communication and organisational skills in developing a strategic work-plan and collaboratively delivering with cross-national partners
- Excellent writing and editing skills in English, in writing for children and young people, academic, practitioner audiences
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As a valued member of our team you can expect:
- A competitive salary
- An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
- To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community
- Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, competitive pension schemes, staff discounts, and family-friendly initiatives. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits
Championing equality, diversity and inclusion
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
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On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
Key dates to note
The closing date for applications is
28th August 2025.
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About Us
As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.
About The Team
Moray House School of Education and Sport (MHSES), University of Edinburgh, has been making a major contribution and impact to the fields of education and sport both in Scotland and worldwide for almost 200 years. In that time, our staff, students and alumni have influenced and transformed learning, teaching, and wider educational policy in the UK and beyond. We are the leading School of Education and Sport in Scotland – ranked first for research breadth and quality in Education and Sport, and third in the UK (REF 2021) . We consistently rank in the top tiers of global education and sport-related studies .
Our alumni include Great Britain’s most successful Olympic athlete, cyclist Sir Chris Hoy MBE, and trailblazing teacher and race relations pioneer, Saroj Lal.
We are deeply committed to social justice, inclusivity, diversity, and accessibility. Our aim in all our work is to significantly impact the education, wellbeing and development of children, young people and adults, through problem-solving in the fields of education and sport.
Study
Across undergraduate, postgraduate taught, research, and initial teacher education; our 3000 students study across 29 different programmes. These include a wide array of subjects across the broad areas of teacher education, language education, sport policy, sport science, outdoor education and community education.
Research
With Over 250 Research Staff And Students, We Have a Vibrant And Expanding Research Community With a Broad Portfolio Of Academic Disciplines Gathered Within Seven Broad Research Themes With Permeable Boundaries. Our Thematic Hubs Are
- Advanced Quantitative Research in Education
- Children and Young People
- Digital Education
- Language, Interculturality and Literacies
- Social Justice and Inclusion
- Sport-related Research
- Teacher, Curriculum and Pedagogy
The REF 2021 results for both education and sport-related research place us as Scotland’s top-ranked institution for research breadth and quality (THE).
