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Two New ICL Research Fellow Posts Advertised

 

Applications are invited for two full-time Research Fellow posts tenable for three years in the first instance. The two posts continue the next phase of investment in Improving Children’s Lives.  Nine full-time staff have already been appointed to the initiative and are located across a range of Centres, Units and Institutes within Queen’s.  The aim of these two additional posts will be to complement this existing work by building research expertise in the two areas shown.  Successful candidates will be expected to develop their own expertise and work with colleagues to help build research capacity across the University and to secure external research funding.  The two posts, and where they are to be located, are:

 

 

For more information on all of these posts and to apply online please visit http://www.qub.ac.uk/jobs Informal enquiries regarding these posts may be directed to Dr Andy Biggart, Centre for Effective Education, Telephone: (028) 9097 5946 or Email: a.biggart@qub.ac.uk

 

The closing date for applications is Friday 25 September 2009 at 4 pm.

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First issue of new journal, 'Effective Education', published

The first issue of the new, international journal ‘Effective Education’ has just been published. Improving Children’s Lives Director, Professor Paul Connolly, is the founding editor of the journal and the journal is run from the Centre for Effective Education based within the School of Education at Queen’s. The journal has an impressive international Editorial Board and seeks to play a leading role in shaping the field of research into the effectiveness of educational programs, interventions and differing types of provision. What makes the journal distinctive is its aim of creating a space for critical debate and encouraging new ways of thinking in relation to evaluative research in education.

 

Published by Routledge Journals (an imprint of Taylor and Francis), the first issue is available to view online for free at the Effective Education journal website. Professor Connolly said: “I am absolutely delighted to see the first issue in print. A lot of hard work has gone into preparing this and I would like to thank all of the members of the Editorial Board, the publishers and also Joanne Mulgrew, at the Centre for Effective Education, who has done a terrific job as the Editorial Assistant for the journal. I am also grateful to The Atlantic Philanthropies for part-sponsoring the journal.”

 

He continued: “In seeking to promote rigorous, high quality research into the effectiveness of educational programmes and interventions and to do this in an inclusive way that encourages critical debate and dialogue, the journal very much seeks to take forward the work of Improving Children’s Lives in the field of education. Indeed this first issue includes an article by Laura Lundy and Lesley McEvoy that reports on one of the recently completed projects within the Centre for Effective Education that has sought to develop a children’s right-based approach to undertaking outcomes-focused research with children.”

 

For more information contact: Professor Paul Connolly.

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  • Six New ICL PhD Studentships Advertised

    Applications are currently being invited for six new full-time PhD Studentships. These will be jointly supervised across various Schools within Queen’s with the aim of encouraging innovative and high quality interdisciplinary research relating to children and young people.

    These studentships are part of the next phase of investment in Improving Children’s Lives and relate to a range of potential projects, each to be supervised by an interdisciplinary team. The studentships are available from October 2009, and cover University fees up to £3,390 per annum and a maintenance allowance of £13,290 per annum, for three years. To be eligible for consideration for funding, applicants must:

    • have, or expect to obtain, at least a 2.1 honours degree (or its equivalent); and
    • be ordinarily resident in the UK or EU (since September 2006).

    Applicants who apply for admission by the closing date of Friday 26 June 2009 will be considered automatically for funding.

    Applicants are invited to apply for up to a maximum of three studentships from the list of eight below:

    • Employing virtual reality (VR) simulation in the development of movement centred therapies for children and young people with complex trauma.
    • Quality of life and participation in adolescents with chronic health conditions.
    • The impact of school placement on the lives of children with cerebral palsy:  An exploratory study of the views of children and their parents.
    • Developing a psychosocial intervention to improve self-management behaviours and glycaemic control among children with type 1 diabetes.
    • Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences in a university student population: Associations with education pathways and future social and economic outcomes.
    • Peer influences on teenage substance use and antisocial behaviour in Northern Ireland.
    • Promoting respect for diversity: Conceptualising its meaning in a post-conflict society and implications for curriculum development.
    • An epidemiological study of young children’s awareness of and attitudes towards disability. 

    Applicants should apply for admission electronically at https://pg.apply.qub.ac.uk/home/ A separate application form needs to be completed for each studentship applied for.

    Please click here for a full information pack.  For further details on these studentships please contact David Piekaar, Project Administrator, d.piekaar@qub.ac.uk 028 9097 5956.

    In addition there are a further six full-time International PhD Studentships relating to the Research Forum for the Child.  These studentships are open to any area of interdisciplinary research on childhood.  For further details on this open call for proposals and information on how to apply, please visit the Research Forum for the Child website www.qub.ac.uk/child .


    • Seven New ICL Research Fellow Posts Advertised

    Applications are currently being invited for seven new full-time Research Fellow posts to be located across a range of Centres, Units and Institutes within Queen’s. The seven posts are part of the next phase of investment in Improving Children’s Lives. The aim of the posts will be to build research expertise across the University in relation to a range of differing methods and methodologies. Successful candidates will be expected to develop their own expertise and work with colleagues to help build research capacity across the University and to secure external research funding. The seven posts, and where they are to be located, are:

    • Research Fellow (Epidemiological Research), Department of Child Health/Centre for Public Health

     

    For more information on all of these posts and to apply online please visit http://www.qub.ac.uk/jobs Informal enquiries regarding these posts may be directed to Dr Liam O’Hare, Centre for Effective Education, Telephone: (028) 9097 5973 or Email: l.ohare@qub.ac.uk

     

    The closing date for applications is Friday 29 May 2009.

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