Golddigger Trust – White Rose DTP

This opportunity is only accepting applications from Postgraduate Researchers with secured funding and authorisation from their doctoral funding body to undertake a placement.

Key Host Information

About the Host
An award-winning charity, working to equip young people with the confidence and skills to make positive choices for themselves.
They are all about building positive wellbeing in young people, based in Sheffield, and impacting the UK. Investing in thousands of young people through innovative projects and programmes, Golddigger Trust is committed to ‘digging out the gold’ within people and helping them to reach their full potential.

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Type of Organisation
Third Sector

Host Location
Sheffield

Equal Opportunities Statement
Golddigger Trust are committed to diversity and inclusivity, striving for equal opportunities for all staff, volunteers and service users and have a wider statement available on request. Golddigger Trust is a charity with a Christian faith ethos, however we do not discriminate and welcome people of all faiths and none without bias. Due to the nature of our work with children and young people, we would not be able to host a researcher who had a criminal record pertaining to offences against children or young people.

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Placement Description

Ideal Start Date

Flexible

Placement Location

Online, Hybrid or In-person

Mode of Placement

Part-time or Full-time

Relevant Pathway(s)

ECY, WHC

Types of Project

Research and analysis

Further Project Details

Golddigger Trust has a very rich digital data set from their 2000+ young people and would be interested in exploring this further. They are also very interested in doing research relating to non-clinical mental health and wellbeing programmes, seeking to prove (or disprove!) their model and qualify the impact of more holistic provision that is rooted in health creation/public health, rather than clinical interventions.

Skills Required

They would be keen to work with a collaborator who is skilled in working with quantitative and qualitative data, and someone who is keen to work in creating models of impact evaluation, particularly recognising that mental health/wellbeing/self-worth can be difficult to quantify.

They would be keen to work with a collaborator who is inquisitive and can work in an environment where they’re looking for trends within the data and shaping research questions in light of these.

Financial Contribution Offered by the Host

This placement is offered on an unpaid basis. The host organisation will not cover your PhD funding during the placement. It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure that their programme funding will continue during the placement.