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• Competitive salary, including incremental progression within your scale.
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• Generous leave entitlement of 32–35 days a year, plus bank holidays, and an additional Christmas closure.
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The School of Criminology and Criminal Justice is the largest criminology department in the UK with an established presence in undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral education, complemented by a successful applied criminology research profile.
The University has secured TEF Gold status and is aiming to be the top modern University and the School will make a significant contribution towards achieving this aim.
Our innovative criminology and forensic studies course provision, campus-based, distance learning, are aligned to our research strengths.
The School is seeking a flexible and committed Research Assistant to work on a research project funded by the Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre with support from the ESRC led by Drs Alejandra De La Fuente Vilar (PI), Stefana Juncu, Craig Collie and Gary Dalton. The project involves a collaboration with relevant police and search and rescue practitioners, aimed to enhance investigations involving ethnically diverse missing persons. The work will involve data recruitment of student and community participants, in-person data collection in Portsmouth at UoP laboratories, transcription and coding of interviews, and conducting statistical analyses.
If you wish to discuss this further, please contact Ale De La Fuente alejandra.de-la-fuente@port.ac.uk
Date of Interview: 18/08/2025
This appointment is a fixed-term contract until 31st December 2025
For internal candidates it may be possible to apply for this role under the Secondment Policy . If you wish to apply as a secondee, you must have approval of your line manager in advance of submitting your application form. Please confirm in your application that your line manager has approved this.