All researchers must be recruited in accordance with the University's recruitment guidance. As the recruiting manager / principal investigator, you are responsible for ensuring that this guidance is followed.
Note that you do not need to follow a recruitment and selection process where a researcher is named on an approved grant.
- Short-term contracts up to 3 months
- please follow the guidance at the appropriate link below.
Associate Researchers
or
Student Casuals
Note: Unless they are a student, all short-term research casuals are given the job title of Associate Researcher, irrespective of which job title and level of JD they are working to.
Please be aware of any restrictions to the number of hours a students is able to work due to visa restrictions and/or university regulations. These may vary between semester and vacation periods.
See
Tier 4 international student
and
B6 Research Degree Regulations (PDF)
(see 7.6)
- Longer-term contract - 3 months plus
- Preparing for Advertising
- All longer term contracts (3 months plus) will normally be advertised externally unless exceptionally agreed with the link HR Business Partner /HR Manager.
- If not already done so create a
recruitment timeline
that allows sufficient time to recruit the best person for the role and enhances the Brookes employer brand.
- Select the appropriate generic Job Description and related Person Specification[1] . Please use one of the generic research JDs which can be found here. All research posts should be based on the generic JD.
Please do not use/modify old JDs. The generic JDs detail the general tasks and responsibilities that are expected at that particular grade level. However, there is room for you to personalise the generic JD by adding information under the headings, ‘Outline of Role and Research Project’ and ‘Specific tasks related to this research project’.
- The HR recruitment teams will be monitoring research JDs prior to advertising and may return any JD that does not conform to the above. This may delay your recruitment schedule and anticipated start dates.
- If you wish to consider a possible international applicant, you must recruit at Grade 8 or above to meet minimum salary levels and you must advertise the post for a minimum of 28 days. In practice you need to allow at least 30 days as it takes up
to 48 working hours to go live on jobs.ac.uk. See the
immigration guidance pages
for more information and/ or speak to the HR recruitment team.
- You can only appoint a Grade 8 Research Fellow if the role holder will be undertaking independent research and will be returned in the REF. A PhD at the time of appointment is also essential.
- There is now a single Postdoctoral Research Assistant JD which can be used to appoint at either Grade 7 or Grade 8.
Use the Grade 7/8 Postgraduate Research Assistant job description if the role-holder will not be undertaking independent research.
- Compile your
job advert. The HR recruitment team may be able to help you with this - you can also look at similar adverts on
jobs.ac.uk.
- Bear in mind that some research roles will require the role-holder to hold a DBS certificate before commencing work. More information can be found
here.