This opportunity is only accepting applications from Postgraduate Researchers who began receiving ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) funding in or after Autumn 2024 to undertake a Research in Practice (RinP) placement as part of their studentship.
Key Placement Information
Closing Date
Fellow Cohort 1: 15 December 2026
Fellow Cohort 1: 15 March 2027
Fellow Cohort 1: 15 August 2027
Start Date
Fellow Cohort 1 start date: 1 June 2027
Fellow Cohort 2 start date: 1 September 2027
Fellow Cohort 3 start date: 1 January 2028
Duration
3-months (or part-time equivalent)
Full-time or Part-time
Full-time or Part-time
Ideally placement holders will attend the placement in a single block.
In Person, Online or Hybrid
Online
Job Sector
Academic
Project Areas
Data management, data coding, quantitative data analysis, and/or geolocation of data, or qualitative skills in operationalisation of concepts, classification, categorisation, thematic analysis, and/or qualitative coding.
How to Apply
Send a brief motivation letter and C.V.
Applicant Eligibility
This opportunity is only accepting applications from Postgraduate Researchers who began receiving ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) funding in or after Autumn 2024 to undertake a Research in Practice (RinP) placement as part of their studentship.
Project Description
Aberystwyth University is a public research university in mid-Wales, UK. The Department of International Politics (InterPol), founded in 1919 as the world’s first department of its kind, is internationally recognised for the quality of its research and for its critical approaches to questions of international politics. The Department has a lively research culture, hosting a range of specialised research groups, centres and seminars, as well as various UKRI- and EU-funded projects. These have included the international, interdisciplinary AHRC research network “Creating Safer Space: Strengthening Civilian Protection Amidst Violent Conflict” (2020-2025). The “UCP-SS Dataset” project, to which placement holders will contribute, builds on this work.
There are up to four placements available per cohort (across three cohorts).
This placement opportunity is located within the ESRC-funded secondary data analysis project “The Unarmed Civilian Protection in South Sudan (UCP-SS) Dataset” hosted by the Department of International Politics at
Aberystwyth University.
The project aims to make a major contribution to the study of unarmed civilian protection (UCP) – a nonviolent mechanism used by civilians to protect other civilians and/or themselves in contexts of armed or social violence – by creating the world’s first comprehensive quantitative dataset on UCP initiatives: the Unarmed Civilian Protection in South Sudan (UCP-SS) Dataset.
The project partners with Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP), the world’s largest UCP organisation, using existing primary data (c.4,500 text-based weekly incident reports) collected by NP’s South Sudan mission to create a new dataset on UCP activities and types of violence in South Sudan and conduct first in-depth analyses of UCP effectiveness and trends using this new dataset.
The core project team consists of Prof Berit Bliesemann de Guevara (project lead), Dr Luke Abbs (consultant/visiting researcher), and Dr Jennifer Hodge (research associate).
Access full details and application instructions here: WGSSS Academic Placement - The Unarmed Civilian Protection in South Sudan (UCP-SS) Dataset
Please note this opportunity has been advertised across multiple Doctoral Training Partnerships (DTPs) by the lead DTP – WGSSS.
