Research Assistant

Research Assistant
Vacancy Number: 6377BR

Wales Public Services 2025
Cardiff Business School
College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Cardiff Business School is widely regarded as one of the leading business and management schools in the UK, ranked 6th in the UK for the quality of its research in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF).  We educate over 3,500 students annually, including over 1,500 international students. Cardiff Business School has an international faculty of world-leading scholars. Our research reputation has helped us become an attractive centre of scholarship for colleagues from the UK and beyond. As the world’s first Public Value Business School, Cardiff Business School has a commitment to delivering societal as well as economic value though the undertaking of world leading inter-disciplinary research addressing the grand challenges facing communities, business and organizations.

Cardiff University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. We believe this can be achieved through attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds who have the ambition to create a University which seeks to fulfil our social, cultural and economic obligation to Cardiff, Wales, and the world.  In supporting our employees to achieve a balance between their work and their personal lives, we will also consider proposals for flexible working or job share arrangements. Cardiff Business School is particularly looking to recruit from under-represented groups within the School.

This is an exciting opportunity for an outstanding researcher to contribute to a programme of work which generates authoritative and independent analysis of the fiscal, economic and policy challenges facing public services in Wales.

The successful applicant will have opportunities to contribute to publication in high quality journals and achieve a significant impact on policy decisions. Their main project will be feeding into an Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) UK-wide programme and they will be liaising with the IFS accordingly.

The Wales Public Services 2025 team is based in Cardiff Business School and is a unique partnership between Cardiff University and five national bodies. However location and working arrangements are flexible and the University welcomes proposals for a PhD student on an interruption of study basis.

This is a full time (35 hours per week), fixed term post that is available from 1st October 2017 until 31st July 2018. We are open to applications offering a minimum of 21 hours per week from well-qualified or experienced candidates. We are open to secondment proposals.

Salary: £26,052 - £30,175 per annum (Grade 5)

For more information and to apply please click apply.

Closing date: Monday, 28 August 2017

Please be aware that Cardiff University reserves the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received.
Cardiff University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. We believe this can be achieved through attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds who have the ambition to create a University which seeks to fulfil our social, cultural and economic obligation to Cardiff, Wales, and the world.  In supporting our employees to achieve a balance between their work and their personal lives, we will also consider proposals for flexible working or job share arrangements.