University for the Creative Arts
Research Impact Associate
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UCA is recruiting three post-doctoral Research Impact Associates to deliver innovative, ambitious, socially engaged and commercially targeted impact activities that translate the University’s research into change in the world beyond academia.
Are you a post-doctoral researcher with an understanding of impact arising from arts and humanities research? Do you have experience of working to connect research to industry, business, the public and cultural sector partners? Have you worked on collaborative, practice-based or participatory research with non-academic partners and stakeholders?
We are recruiting Research Impact Associates aligned to three impact clusters: Sustainability, design and environment Place-based innovation and cultural engagement Creative technologies, industry engagement and innovation
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The RIAs will work with UCA’s academic researchers to capture, document and amplify the impact they are creating through their research and collaborations. You will implement strategies for collecting robust evidence of impact, deliver events and activities to accelerate future developments, and work with your fellow RIAs to explore cross-cutting themes and methods for impact design and evaluation.
These fixed-term roles are funded by the UCA’s AHRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) at a pivotal moment, as we enter the final year of the award, and reach a strategic point in the REF cycle. The roles will be integrated into UCA’s wider Research, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange team which is based at the University’s Farnham campus, although it may be possible for at least one post to work out of the Canterbury campus.
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Please note the actual salary for 29 hours (pro rata) is £28,486 per annum.
For an informal conversation regarding the role please contact: Professor Victoria Kelley, UCA IAA Principal Investigator, VKELLEY@uca.ac.uk
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