Birmingham City University is a dynamic and diverse academic community, with a strong track record of delivering excellent education. We embrace a practice-led, knowledge-based and research-informed approach to our teaching.
Our new Deafblind UK Centre for Education and Research, the first of its kind in the UK, connects researchers, practitioners and people living with deafblindness, and plays a vital role in raising awareness of deafblindness and responding to the urgent need for more research in the field. It also equips junior researchers and the workforce with the knowledge and skills to become future leaders in deafblindness research and practice. Based at the City South Campus, the Centre is at the heart of the city and close to the many institutions and social constituencies with whom we work.
About the role
We are now seeking a Research Assistant to support and develop the work of the Centre. The Research Assistant role involves identifying areas for research in the deafblindness field and developing research objectives; preparing proposals and applications to external bodies for research funding; conducting research, and analysing and interpreting the findings/results of research; and engaging in dissemination activities, including writing for publication and presenting at conferences. The Research Assistant will also support the educational aims of the Centre, contributing to its teaching in the field and supporting the research skills of students.
At Birmingham City University we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. All staff are expected to understand and enact the University’s commitment to ensuring equality, diversity and inclusion in our employment practice and in all that we do. This commitment is enshrined in our Core Values and is detailed in our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Employment Policy. The University values and celebrates the diversity of our staff and students; we welcome people from the many different backgrounds and life experiences that reflect the students and the citizens we serve.
About us
At the heart of our Strategy for 2030 and Beyond, it is our mission to enable our students to transform their lives and to achieve their potential. Through our education and research, and the roles our graduates go on to play in the world, we not only support individuals to transform their lives, but we also play a part in transforming society.
Located in the centre of the UK’s second city, we are a university with a long heritage of innovation and of making, dating back to our origins in 1843 when we were founded as the Birmingham Government School of Design.
Our heritage of making through innovation and its application through knowledge exchange, and of creative research and practice, today finds it expression in our STEAM agenda, in our research and enterprise, and in our commitment to challenge-based learning. Working across disciplines, and delivering impactful research and enterprise, interdisciplinarity is at the heart of the continuing transformation of our academic portfolio.
