University for the Creative Arts, Epsom Campus
UCA is looking to recruit a Research Assistant on a 6-month variable hours contract (maximum of 98 hours) to join UCA research and innovation team in the ESRC IAA funding project Growing NEETs Skills in Surrey: A Place-based Grassroots Pilot. The small project aims to generate initial evidence and practical considerations for strengthening and scaling grassroots approaches to NEET prevention and re-engagement, with a focus on the context and contribution of the creative and cultural industries in Surrey.
The Research Assistant will contribute to the project and UCA team with fieldwork and applied research and innovation activities to initiate a structured mapping exercise to document a Surrey cultural organisation’s current activities, target cohorts, partnership models, and delivery approaches for re-engaging young people at risk of becoming NEET.
UCA is Europe’s 2nd largest provider to graduates to the creative industries in Europe. UCA’s mission is foster leading-edge teaching and research related to creativity, business and technology in creative industries and the arts. UCA has a strong base in practice-based research and is developing knowledge exchange (KE) and Innovation alongside this strength.
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