This is an intellectually stimulating role involving a range of operational, analytical and creative tasks for a project that will conduct the first substantial research study in the UK on Jury Decision-Making in Domestic Abuse Trials Involving Coercive Control. The project, funded by the ESRC, involves activity across four work packages: coercive control as an offence, domestic abuse-related suicide and unlawful act manslaughter, coerced offending under duress, and coercive control as an aspect of self-defence or loss of control in homicide cases. As the postdoctoral research assistant on the project, you will play a central and active role across all work packages, and will have co-leadership with the project lead, Professor Vanessa Bettinson, in analysing and writing up the findings for the first work package in particular. 

Duties and responsibilities will include: