Associate/Fellow or Senior Fellow

University of Nottingham

Closing date: 16 July 2025

We are now recruiting an Associate/Fellow or Senior Fellow to join Dr Philippa Tomczak’s prestigious £1.3m, five-year European Research Council Starting Grant RECEDE: ‘REgulating Criminal justicE DEtention: glocal prospects for improving health and safety in detention and society’.

The contract for this post will be offered for 18 months, with potential to extend subject to funding.

Successful applicants will demonstrate strong ability or potential in one or more of these core areas:

• ability to analyse policy documents; and /or
• ability to analyse the regulation of police detention in England and Wales; and /or
• ability to lead or contribute to analysis that considers race, sex, gender and/or death; and /or
• writing articles for peer-reviewed journals in social sciences and beyond; and /or
• strong methodological expertise; and/ or
• ability to translate academic findings into practical implications e.g. through policy briefs; and /or
• qualitative research experience of criminal justice/ psychiatric/ immigration detention); and /or
• ability to apply relevant theoretical and critical perspectives (e.g. actor-network theory, assemblages, processual ontologies, regulation and governance).

Full details including role profile here.