Impact Research Fellow

5019

Academic Development and Services
Research
UAL - King's Cross, London UK
Grade 6
£45,603.00 - £54,943.00 Per annum

Fixed Term - 2 years

Full time - 35 hours per week

16 April 2019 15:00

The opportunity

UAL is setting up a Social Design Institute to consolidate and amplify work in social design and design for sustainability across its research centres and six colleges. Currently in a pilot year, the institute will forge the development of new insights and positive outcomes and spark new opportunities to achieve change by design.

We seek an experienced researcher with expertise in the humanities, social sciences, sustainable business or design. Bringing a track record of publications and experience of working on funded research and/or knowledge exchange, the Impact Research Fellow will bring analytical rigour to the work of the institute and help develop critical, contextual understanding of accounts of change resulting from social design and design for sustainability. This role requires working closely with UAL academics and their partners and helping shape the external and internal narrative for the new institute. 

The successful candidate will be expected to lead the theorisation and articulation of how social design and design for sustainability result in meaningful outcomes for society, and assessing the contextual factors and consequences of these developments.

Duties and responsibilities include:

  • To lead the development of an articulation of social design and design for sustainability that will support the building of frameworks, data-gathering, and analysis about the impact of UAL’s social design and design for sustainability projects with partners, including businesses, public sector and third sector organisations, realised through research, practice and knowledge exchange
  • To support the production of research and accounts of impact about design projects by UAL researchers and KE staff in the form of thematic analyses, case studies and other outputs
  • To support the development and dissemination of, and engagement with, frameworks so that staff and PhD students are better able to articulate their impact while being conversant with the consequences and limiations
  • To initiate, prepare and submit bids for funding to UK Research and Innovation, European and other funding bodies as principal or co-investigator

For an informal conversation please contact Lucy Kimbell via l.kimbell@arts.ac.uk 

About you

Essential Skills Include:


  • PhD in sociology, anthropology, the humanities, sustainable innovation, sustainable HCI, design or similar
  • Experience of applying to research and innovation funders and being accountable for outputs
  • Strong record of successful research activity including publications in significant journals or edited books
  • Familiar with the challenges of participating in collaborative research and knowledge exchange with stakeholders including in government, the public sector, third sector, social enterprise or business
  • Experience of working in a research project with many internal and external stakeholders
  • Experience of analysing project data and outputs produced by others
  • Good working knowledge of challenges of analysing research impact from innovation and change projects in the public sector, business and third sector, in particular through applied service design, digital design, participatory design and sustainable design

Posting date - 27 February 2019

Closing date - 15 April 2019

Interview dates  -  1st May 2019 / 2nd May 2019

If you have any queries you may contact ADS Recruitment Team via email ADSRecruitment@arts.ac.uk or telephone: 02075142965

This opportunity is closed to applications.