Lancaster University and Blackpool Public Health Team

Project: Grace-Net (Gambling Resilience, Awareness & Community Engagement Network)

Research Assistantship: Community of Practice

Hybrid: primarily remote, with occasional in person events in the North West
Full-time (13 weeks) or part-time equivalent

Through this placement you can contribute to the establishment and running of the Grace-Net Community of Practice (CoP). The CoP is the knowledge-sharing engine of Grace-Net, connecting public health teams, NHS providers, LEROs, third-sector partners and academic researchers across the region and nationally.

Grace-Net (Gambling Resilience, Awareness & Community Engagement Network) is a UKRI funded research and innovation network based in the North West of England, focused on reducing gambling harm through prevention, protection and recovery (P-Pt-R).

Lancaster University and Lancashire and South Cumbria Foundation Trust (NHS)

Project: Grace-Net (Gambling Resilience, Awareness & Community Engagement Network)

Research Assistantship: Participatory Innovation Framework

Hybrid with travel across the North West (6-8 site visits)
Full-time (13 weeks) or part-time equivalent

Support the design, delivery and evaluation of participatory innovation activities for Grace-Net’s Participatory Innovation Framework. The framework tests how cross-sector collaboration can directly improve identification of, and responses to, gambling harm through a series of co-designed workshops and small-scale micro-experiments conducted with frontline partner organisations.

Grace-Net (Gambling Resilience, Awareness & Community Engagement Network) is a UKRI funded research and innovation network based in the North West of England, focused on reducing gambling harm through prevention, protection and recovery (P-Pt-R).

Lancaster University Department of Psychology

Project: Grace-Net (Gambling Resilience, Awareness & Community Engagement Network)

Research Assistantship: Open Knowledge & Legacy

Primarily remote with optional in person engagement
Full-time (13 weeks) or part-time equivalent (min 0.4 FTE)

Are you interested in developing specialist expertise in open-access publishing, editorial processes and inclusive knowledge production?

This placement will contribute to establishing the UK’s first Diamond Open-Access (OA) journal dedicated to gambling harms, with a remit to foster publications by academics, practitioners and lived experience contributors. The journal is to be titled, Gambling Harm: Research, Policy & Practice. The journal will publish peer-reviewed academic papers alongside practitioner insights and lived-experience contributions, with 40% of the editorial board drawn from lived-experience and practitioner communities. 

Grace-Net (Gambling Resilience, Awareness & Community Engagement Network) is a UKRI funded research and innovation network based in the North West of England, focused on reducing gambling harm through prevention, protection and recovery (P-Pt-R).

Active Learning Lab & Infant and Child Development Lab, Lancaster University

Research Assistantship: The Curiosity Battery Project

Onsite placement (limited hybrid work) at Lancaster University.

Update: Full-time or part-time (min 0.4 FTE). Start date flexible, to be negotiated with placement host

The Curiosity Project aims to measure the multidimensional nature of curiosity in primary school children (7-11-year-olds) and examine its impact on learning and well-being over time.

The project team will support you to develop a stand-alone study, or you can choose to contribute to the ongoing set of studies. You’ll have opportunities to co-author the scientific outputs, such as conference presentation and peer reviewed manuscripts.