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About university

Swansea University is a university -led university and has created a team since 1920. The university community has been overwhelming exploration and discovery and provides the correct balance between teaching and excellent research, which is met by the quality of an enviable life.

Our amazing university deprivation over the waterfront and our multicultural society makes us a desirable workplace for colleagues from all over the world. Our rewards, our auctioneer, and our work methods enable those who join us to obtain rich jobs, which are matched by an excellent balance between work and life.

About the role

SWANSEA University seeks to appoint a research official to support the PathWays to Welsh project, funded by the AHRC Impact AcceleRation Account (IAA). This short -term flexible function will play a major role in achieving the research influence and community participation in partnership with Mudiad Meithrin and IAITH: The Welsh Center for Language Planning.

The project focuses on the Welsh language paths for international majority families in Cardiff, with a special focus on improving access to Welsh education in the first intermediate years and children’s care in Grangtown and Pottown. The research official will work closely with the project team and partners to build confidence with parents, community leaders and stakeholders, and to design and provide activities that capture the experiences of families and their views.

The responsibilities will include the recruitment of participants, the facilitation of focus groups and workshops, participating in the creation of promotional materials, and ensuring careful registration of data and analysis. The role also includes contributing to research outputs, supporting publishing and strengthening links between the university, Modad Mithrin, IAITH and local communities.

This is an excellent opportunity for a researcher with strong skills in community participation, interest in linguistic pluralism and medium Welsh education, and knowledge of the languages ​​of the local community.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

The university is obligated to support and enhance equality and diversity in all its practices and activities. We aim to create a comprehensive environment and welcome various requests from the following protected characteristics: age, disability, sex change, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and motherhood, race (including color, nationality, ethnic and national origin), religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.

As a comprehensive and welcome workplace, we appreciate people for their skills regardless of their background. We welcome the requests in the Welsh language and will not be dealt with less preferred than that presented in the English language.

Welsh language skills

The level of the Welsh language required for this role is level 3 – fluent. The role of the role will be able to have a conversation in the Welsh language on a work related to work and writing the original Welsh materials with confidence.

The university is a proud bilateral institution, and determines our Welsh language strategy our ambition to enhance the language and enable our employees to deal with the language as an additional skill in the workplace and as a junction of new cultural and social opportunities. We welcome the requests in the Welsh language and will not be dealt with less preferred than that presented in the English language. Welsh language speakers have the right to conduct an interview in the Welsh language. The applicants are expected for a job in which the Welsh skills are necessary to submit their requests in the Welsh language and will be interviewed in the Welsh language, if they are included in the brief list.

Additional information

The requests of this role will take the form of providing CV and coverage letter.

A satisfactory DBS certificate must be submitted before the start date.

Close date: October 21, 2025

Date of the interview: October 28, 2025

Unofficial inquiries: Dr. Joinan Higham Gehigham@swansea.ac.uk