Research Fellow - University of Warwick, United Kingdom - University of Warwick

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Full Time, Fixed Term Contract from June March 2025


The trial will be implemented as a field experiment, a series of randomised interventions in the online shopping environment where participants do their actual grocery shopping, i.e.

websites of major UK supermarkets. The interventions we will consider are eco-labels, price promotions, and swaps for healthier or more sustainable alternative products.

We will explore the effects of these interventions individually and in combination with each other, and how these vary across participants with different characteristics and backgrounds.

We will also compare our result to those of other trials in the SALIENT consortium in order to advise the UK government on what works, for whom, and in what circumstances.


We will work with an online survey company to recruit participants and collect background information, and we have partnered with a technology startup to develop a browser extension (plug-in) that allows us to manipulate the appearance of the grocery websites that participants use.

The tasks of the postdoc include negotiations with these partners, helping to develop the study design and questionnaires, literature review, data collection and analysis, and all stages of the publication process.

We expect that the results of the trial will result in several high-quality scientific publications in addition to any policy outputs.


The successful applicant will expect excellent academic mentoring by the trial leads, as well as good exposure to the academic environment in the economics department and in the public health and environmental fields.

There will be opportunities to attend project workshops and academic conferences where we will present our results.

They will also be encouraged to participate in departmental teaching activities and to draw on the extensive training opportunities, both internally and externally, offered by the University of Warwick.


Applicants must have completed or be close to completing a doctoral degree in economics, public health, environmental science, or other relevant field.

Some familiarity with quantitative research methods (regression analysis) is required, and experience with experimental methods and/or qualitative research are welcomed.

This is a strongly interdisciplinary project, and an ideal applicant would have a strong background in quantitative social science as well as a proven affinity with public health, or vice versa.

Interviews will be held via Microsoft Teams week commencing 5 June 2023.


JOB PURPOSE


The post-doctoral research fellow will support a field trial evaluating interventions in online grocery shopping to improve health and sustainability, led by Professors Thijs van Rens (Economics, University of Warwick) and Oyinlola Oyebode (Public Health, Queen Mary University London) and funded by the UK government through the ESRC.

They will work closely with the lead investigators on the development of the study design and questionnaires, literature review, data collection and analysis, and all stages of the publication process.


DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Research and Scholarship:


  • Conduct collaborative research projects.
  • Write up research work for publication.
  • Communicate complex information (orally and in writing) and material of a specialist or highly technical nature.
  • Continually update own knowledge and understanding in field or specialism.
  • May present information on research progress and outcomes to bodies supervising research, e.g. steering groups.
  • May contribute to the preparation of papers for steering groups and other bodies.

Administration and Other Activities:


  • To support the Project Leaders with administrative tasks related to the research project.
  • Work within budget constraints.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience Required:


  • Good honours degree.
  • Working towards or successful completion of a PhD in a relevant discipline.
  • Proven ability in research and evidence of quality research output in relevant field.
  • Sufficient breadth or depth of specialist knowledge of research methods and techniques to work within established research programmes.
  • Ability or potential to contribute to the development of funding proposals in order to generate external funding to support research projects.
  • An understanding of equal opportunity issues as they may impact on areas of research content.


If you are near submission or have recently submitted your PhD but have not yet had it conferred, any offers of employment will be made as Research Assistant at the top of level 5 of the University grade structure (£32,411).

Upon receipt of evidence of the successful award of your PhD, you will be promoted to Research Fellow on the first point of level 6 of the University grade structure (£33,348).


The project aims to evaluate policy interventions in online grocery shopping to promote dietary choices that are beneficial to health and environment.

It is one of several tri
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