Postdoctoral Research Associate in Organisational - Durham, United Kingdom - Durham University

Durham University

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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Organisational Behaviour and Leadership
(Job Number
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Grade 7:

£37,099
£44,263 per annum

Fixed Term - Full Time

Contract Duration: 24 months

Contracted Hours per Week: 35

Closing Date: 22-Mar-2024, 6:59:00 PM

Disclosure and Barring Service Requirement:
Not Applicable.

Working at Durham University

A globally outstanding centre of teaching and research excellence, a warm and friendly place to work, a unique and historic setting - Durham is a university like no other.

As one of the UK's leading universities, Durham is an incredible place to define your career.

The University is located within a beautiful historic city, home to a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and surrounded by stunning countryside.

Our talented scholars and researchers from around the world are tackling global issues and making a difference to people's lives.

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Together, we celebrate difference, value one another and are each responsible for creating an inclusive community that is respectful and fair for all.

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The Role and Department
Our vision is to lead business thought and practice to improve global wealth and well-being. Our associated mission is to create, share and use knowledge to deliver equitable and sustainable futures around the world.

We pursue this mission by advancing world-changing knowledge and securing global impact through increasingly collaborative research across disciplines and around the world.

The Role

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Organisational Behaviour and Leadership to support a research project entitled "Sweating it out for a good purpose: Scaling up mass participation sports events in sustainable ways".

The project aims to examine key antecedents of participation in running events, such as runners' motivations, differences between younger and older runners, between junior employees and senior leaders as well as between men and women.

It also aims to examine the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and career-related effects of physical activity at the workplace and beyond, such as its effects on wellbeing, leaders' resilience, careers, and social judgements or biased evaluations of others.

This project also has a sustainability focus and its findings aim to prompt runners make specific changes in behaviour.

You will work alongside a local organisation that organizes mass running events to help answer these research questions and inspire and scale their activities.

This will involve bringing your expertise into the role to help shape the underlying research agenda and how it translates into real world impact.

The successful applicant will work alongside the project PI, Dr Maria Kakarika, and the project partner as well as the rest of the academic project team.

The role is funded by Durham University Business School's Smart & Scale initiative which is an interdisciplinary impact-driven research programme in smart and scale-up activities, focusing on innovation and business development of SMEs in the North-East of England.

Key responsibilities:

To work with the Principal Investigator and other colleagues in the research project, as appropriate, to develop, pilot and launch new research and extend the research portfolio.
To assist with the development of research objectives and proposals.
To conduct individual and collaborative research projects under the direction of the Principal Investigator.
To facilitate publishing high quality outputs, including papers for submission to peer reviewed journals and papers for presentation at conferences and workshops under the direction of the Principal Investigator or Grantholder.
To deal with problems that may affect the achievement of research objectives and deadlines by discussing with the Principal Investigator and other colleagues in the research project and offering creative or innovative solutions.
To prepare and deliver presentations on research outputs/activities to audiences which may include research sponsors, academic and nonacademic audiences.
To liaise with research colleagues and make internal and external