Grade UE08: £48,350 - £59,421 per annum

College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences / Moray House School of Education and Sport 

Institute for Education, Community and Society 

Childlight – Global Institute for Child Safety 

Open-ended (permanent), Full-time (35 hours per week) 

Child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA) is a global problem that requires a global response. However, the lack of reliable and comprehensive data relating to CSEA is a major inhibitor to developing more effective and evidence driven prevention and response strategies and policies.   

The appointed candidate will be engaged in child protection research with significant experience in working with administrative data, which refers to any information that is created when people interact with public services – in this case child protection system actors such as health, education, policing, criminal justice, court, child helpline and other sources of data.  

This Lecturer role will contribute their expertise to leading data courses on the new MSc in Child Protection Data Futures. This post will also contribute to serving as the inaugural Programme Director for this new master’s programme for the first three years. In addition, this post is expected to contribute data outputs and curating impact related to their work for the University’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise.  

The appointed candidate will also have the opportunity to be affiliated with Childlight – Global Child Safety Institute and will be engaged in research on how to leverage existing child protection sector data strengths to boost the better use of CSEA data across government, civil society, academia, and private industry.  

The opportunity: 

The Lecturer in Child Protection Administrative Data will be responsible for:  

• Conducting research and dissemination, attracting external funding to sustain and grow the candidate’s research programme particularly around innovations in working with administrative data.  

• Contributing to the development, management, and delivery of excellent research-led and practice-based teaching in child protection data futures on the new master’s programme including identifying and supervising student placement and project-based dissertations.   

• Providing research and policy leadership by mentoring early career colleagues and supervising masters and doctoral students and post-doctoral research fellows. 

• Engaging with key stakeholders around knowledge exchange and impact from research in order to improve child protection systems and to prevent violence against children.  

Your skills and attributes for success:  

• A significant academic profile, with a PhD and a track-record of research relating to working with child protection data  
• Expertise in the area of child sexual exploitation and abuse research that has had a demonstrable impact.  
• Experience of leadership in research as a PI of research grants and in knowledge exchange through effective public engagement. 
• Growing portfolio of high-quality research publications in child protection research. 
• Experience of teaching and/or providing lectures on violence against children and/or administrative data  
• Experience of mentoring and supporting colleagues at various career stages including PhD students. 
• Experience of working with child protection system actors (police, health, etc) and emerging experience of obtaining research funding to support this work 

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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, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, and flexible work options. 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. 

Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab).

The University is able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. If successful, an international applicant requiring sponsorship to work in the UK will need to satisfy the UK Home Office’s English Language requirements and apply for and secure a Skilled Worker Visa.

Key Information for Applicants: 

Applicants should submit a CV and a cover letter, detailing how you meet each of the essential criteria as outlined in the ‘Knowledge, Skills and Experience’ section of the Job Description. 

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Prior to starting the position, you will be required to obtain a Basic Disclosure from mygov.scot 
 

Interviews will be held in May 2024. 

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK.  Further information is available on our right to work webpages