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Department of Social SciencesConversation Analytic Role-play Method (CARM) Development Officer
A Research Associate is required for this innovative project (funded via an Enterprise Project Grant from the Higher Education Innovation Fund) involves developing and delivering communication training based on conversation analytic research, for mediators, police and other professionals. The project aims to generate income from Conversation Analytic Role-play Method workshops and establish CARM as a self-sustaining social enterprise, including for the continued funding of the RA. The RA will conduct strategic CARM development work in the School of Social, Political and Geographical Sciences (and Loughborough University) in order to secure future CARM funding, impact, knowledge transfer, continual professional development, research collaborations and activities. This is part of wider University strategic activities.
The successful applicant will be a trained conversation analyst with a background in sociology, criminology, psychology, linguistics, law, business studies, health and medicine, or a cognate discipline. She/he will need to be a skilled conversation analyst, be highly technologically literate, and be prepared to work individually and proactively, with other conversation analysts in the University and wider academic community, with the PI, and with various external organizations and non-academic stakeholders. Applicants should possess a PhD in conversation analysis. Knowledge and/or experience of communication training work, or engaging non-academic audiences, will be an advantage.
The successful applicant will be required to be in post by 1st August 2014.
Interviews will be held on Friday 20th June 2014.
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