Research Associate - Contemporary Arts

Job description:

Are you an arts-informed researcher or artistic practitioner with experience of research who also enjoys working collaboratively? We have an exciting opportunity to join us as a Research Associate taking on a key role in our project - Cripping Breath: Towards a new cultural politics of respiration, funded by a Wellcome Trust Discovery Award (226472/Z/22/Z). Our 5 year interdisciplinary co-produced project explores respiratory health, illness, and people’s experiences of living on or with ventilation.

We are looking for a creative researcher who can co-lead a specific arts-informed work package. You will co-create an accessible and inclusive arts-informed research process for our disabled Artist.

Collaborators living with chronic respiratory illness. This role will include supporting contemporary arts approaches to data collection and collaborative analysis and public engagement, while also contributing to the broader co-produced research project.

For this role, you will have:

• Experience of undertaking qualitative arts-informed research approaches
• Experience and/or knowledge of co-production approaches to research
• Experience of working with disabled contemporary artists
• A passion for co-production research and creating inclusive and equitable research environments

What We Offer

The University of Sheffield is a remarkable place to work. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Their diverse backgrounds, abilities and beliefs make Sheffield a world-class university.

We offer a fantastic range of benefits including a highly competitive annual leave entitlement (with the ability to purchase more), a generous pensions scheme, flexible working opportunities,a commitment to your development and wellbeing, a wide range of retail discounts, and much more.

Find out more at sheffield.ac.uk/jobs/benefits  and join us to become part of something special.

The School of Education

• The School of Education brings together the expertise, teaching and research from across education, lifelong learning and the Sheffield Methods Institute.
• We're home to a diverse and welcoming academic community with students from all over the world. Our forward-thinking teaching and influential research are respected globally.
• We have a vibrant and political approach to disability research and community.
• It’s a warm and friendly environment with an inclusive and supportive research culture.

We are committed to exploring flexible working opportunities which benefit the individual and University.

We build teams of people from different heritages and lifestyles from across the world, whose talent and contributions complement each other to greatest effect. We believe diversity in all its forms delivers greater impact through research, teaching and student experience.