Research Associate

**Job Description**
This role is part of the new Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War, a ten-year initiative aiming to understand the relationships between slavery and war. The Centre is structured around four interconnected research strands, and this position is based within the (Re)conceptualising strand. This strand focuses on conceptualizing and critiquing the nexus of slavery/war through political philosophy, theories of explanation, legal frameworks, and survivor experience, with the goal of transforming global responses to modern slavery in conflict settings. The role involves collaborative and independent research, employing appropriate methodologies to extend philosophical and legal scholarship and clarify concepts and definitions of slavery and war.

**Skills & Abilities**
• Strong qualitative research and analysis skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex information with clarity
• Ability to incorporate feedback and to foster a collaborative, team-based research culture
• Experience working as part of multidisciplinary teams (desirable)
• Proficiency in qualitative analysis packages (e.g. N-Vivo) (desirable)
• Experience with transfer of knowledge and methods between areas or disciplines (desirable)
• Knowledge on intersectionality and identity of victims-survivors (desirable)

**Qualifications**
Required Degree(s) in:
• Relevant field (including law, human rights, socio-legal studies)

**Experience**
Other:
• A PhD in a relevant field (candidates who have submitted their thesis and are awaiting award of their PhDs will be considered)
• Experience researching in international human rights or humanitarian law
• Research background in slavery, human rights, war, conflict or related subject
• Experience interviewing victims-survivors of human rights violations and coding qualitative evidence
• A track record of publications
• Experience working with individuals who have lived experience of slavery, trafficking or exploitation (desirable)

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