Job Identification 12873
Locations Holyrood Campus, Edinburgh, EH8 8AQ, GB (Hybrid working)
Organization Edinburgh University Group
Department Childlight
Apply Before 08/23/2025, 01:59 AM
Health and Safety Requirements Key hazards identified (plan is in place)
Criminal Record Check Disclosure Scotland check required
Contract Type Fixed Term
Work Duration Months 23
Job Schedule Full time
Grade UE07
Number of Openings 1
Job Function Researcher

Job Description

Grade UE07: £41,064 to £48,822 per annum

CAHSS / Moray House School of Education & Sport

Full-time: 35 hours per week

Fixed-term: 30th April 2027

The Opportunity:

Childlight, a global child safety institute, is looking for a Research Fellow to undertake research to improve what we know globally about child protections systems’ capability to deal with child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA). This research will inform the Childlight Into the Light global index, particularly in relation to policing data, with potential expansion to additional sectors such as health, education or justice in subsequent years. This will include contributing to the development of review and verification plans to validate country-based systems data.

The post holder will identify and analyse systemic gaps and opportunities in data use for improved child protection systems, developing practical, evidence-based toolkits, promising practice briefs and minimum standards documentation.

You will have strong research and analytical skills, experience of working with different types of data, (such as law enforcement, health, child protection or education data), or nationally and/or sub-nationally representative surveys that measure CSEA.

Your skills and attributes for success:

.Strong experience of and interest in working across research methods.
Experience of working with prevalence and administrative data
Experience of practice / paid / voluntary/research work with children and young people living with disabilities
Expertise in the area of child sexual exploitation and abuse research or related field that has had a demonstrable impact
Experience of knowledge exchange through effective public engagement.
Growing portfolio of high-quality research publications in child protection or public health research
A passion for making the world a better place and preventing CSEA, improving services and safeguarding children

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Application Information

Please ensure you include the following documents in your application:

CV
Cover letter

As a valued member of our team you can expect:

A competitive salary
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community
Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, and flexible work options. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits

Championing equality, diversity and inclusion

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab)

The University may be able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. This will depend on a number of factors specific to the successful applicant.

Key dates to note

The closing date for applications is 22nd August 2025.

Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.

Interviews are expected to be held within three weeks after the closing date.

About Us

As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.

About the Team

Moray House School of Education and Sport (MHSES), University of Edinburgh, has been making a major contribution and impact to the fields of education and sport both in Scotland and worldwide for almost 200 years. In that time, our staff, students and alumni have influenced and transformed learning, teaching, and wider educational policy in the UK and beyond. We are the leading School of Education and Sport in Scotland – ranked first for research breadth and quality in Education and Sport, and third in the UK (REF 2021). We consistently rank in the top tiers of global education and sport-related studies.

Our alumni include Great Britain’s most successful Olympic athlete, cyclist Sir Chris Hoy MBE, and trailblazing teacher and race relations pioneer, Saroj Lal.

We are deeply committed to social justice, inclusivity, diversity, and accessibility. Our aim in all our work is to significantly impact the education, wellbeing and development of children, young people and adults, through problem-solving in the fields of education and sport.

Study

Across undergraduate, postgraduate taught, research, and initial teacher education; our 3000 students study across 29 different programmes. These include a wide array of subjects across the broad areas of teacher education, language education, sport policy, sport science, outdoor education and community education.

Research

With over 250 research staff and students, we have a vibrant and expanding research community with a broad portfolio of academic disciplines gathered within seven broad research themes with permeable boundaries. Our Thematic Hubs are:

· Advanced Quantitative Research in Education

· Children and Young People

· Digital Education

· Language, Interculturality and Literacies

· Social Justice and Inclusion

· Sport-related Research

· Teacher, Curriculum and Pedagogy

The REF 2021 results for both education and sport-related research place us as Scotland’s top-ranked institution for research breadth and quality (THE).

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