R220026 - Research Fellow

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Location: Birmingham, ENGLAND
Job Type: PartTime
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Aston Business School
Location:  Aston University Main Campus
Salary:  £36,382 to £40,927 per annum (pro-rata)
Grade:  Grade 08
Contract Type:  Fixed Term (12 months)
Basis:  Part Time
Closing Date:  23.59 hours GMT on Tuesday 25 January 2022
Interview Date:  Tuesday 01 February 2022
Reference:  R220026
Release Date:  Tuesday 18 January 2022

The Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship (CREME) has been funded by the European Commission to deliver the innovative Migrant Integration through Locally designed Experiences (MILE) Project. The project sees the involvement of 6 countries: Belgium, Greece, Latvia, Spain, Netherlands, and the UK. The municipalities will constitute a European Network of Exchange and Collaboration (ENEC) of best practices, pitfalls, and mutual learning, just as all the migrant led organisations in the different countries will build up a peer-to-peer exchange platform that will constitute the backbone of future collaborations. The MILE project will create a sustainable ecosystem and a replicable cooperation between the municipalities and local migrant led associations following the specific features and needs of each city involved in the project.

The aim of the project is to enhance the possibility for the migrants to not only raise their voices and participate in a meaningful way but also to co-create and co-design integration policies in their localities, based on their urgent needs. The diversity of perspectives, migrant communities and local policies will be the main added value of the research which will aim to turn the experiences into recommendations for better integration policies.

The Role

CREME is the leading Centre of its kind; it is committed to the production and promotion of knowledge that is useful to academic and practitioner communities. CREME is a leading to contributor to academic and policy debates on ethnic minority entrepreneurship. It is at the forefront of new developments in the field, many of which have been instrumental in stimulating practitioner activities, and is recognised as a Centre of expertise at a national and international level.

The Research Fellow will support the Centre Director to deliver the project and co-create and co-design the integration polices in collaboration with practitioner partners in the UK to draw out wider lessons for policy and practice. The candidates should be post-graduate with a good first degree in a relevant subject and have a doctorate in a relevant academic discipline, such as social science, business, or entrepreneurship with experience of research in migrant and ethnic minority businesses and/or entrepreneurship and enterprise policy.

The successful candidate should also have excellent analytical skills and have the ability to design and conduct academic and policy research in ethnic minority enterprise/ entrepreneurship.

For further information about the vacancy please email Professor Monder Ram [email protected]  


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