I am a researcher with a broad interdisciplinary social science research background that I have made use of working in public, commercial, and non-profit organisations in the UK, Japan, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Before joining RGU I gained some teaching experience as a social science lecturer for the foundation year at York St John University and as a graduate teaching assistant, I also taught at the University of Liverpool whilst taking my PhD in sociology. My research examines how people and communities respond to and are impacted by policies and market initiatives that seek to address globally interconnected challenges. In my PhD, I used ethnographic methods to explore what impact modern slavery and labour exploitation policies had on precarious workers and how the workers themselves creatively sought to carve out more hopeful futures. In my current position as a research fellow for ConsenCUS an H2020 project on Carbon Capture technologies, I explore these issues in relation to how climate policies and technological innovations play out within local communities. I am also concerned with what role more collaborative, diverse, and non-hierarchical ways of organising could have in addressing climate change, inequality and other global challenges.
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Research FellowRobert Gordon UniversityAberdeen, Gb -
Research FellowRobert Gordon University Jun 2021 - PresentAberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom• Conduct qualitative research on community acceptance of carbon capture as part of a multinational and interdisciplinary EU research project.• Ensure timely completion of key project deliverables such as ethics clearance, systematic review and publications.• Engage and liaise with project partners in Denmark, Greece, Romania, and the Netherlands.• Plan and set up community engagement events and channels. -
LecturerYork St John University Aug 2019 - Jun 2021York, England, United Kingdom• Lead modules ensuring high-quality teaching standards and compliance with university regulations.• Designed social science elements for the Liberal Arts (Foundation Year) degree to ensure the students learn the study skills necessary for their progression route.• Continuously developed teaching expertise to deliver excellence in teaching outcomes. -
Phd ResearcherUniversity Of Liverpool Oct 2015 - Jun 2021Liverpool, United KingdomThe thesis explores precarious work and living in London in relation to migrant workers and it draws out the consequences of how political-academic assemblages produce knowledge and make sense about their lives. Through multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in precarious places of living and work the thesis maps out the everyday experiences of belonging and survival in precarious spaces. By participating in policy, union, and academic stakeholder conferences and workshops on precarity it explores out how the policy-academic method assemblages produce knowledge that is largely disconnected from the everyday experiences of people living in more precarious circumstances. It argues that in order to understand why policies related to precarious work seem to fail, there is a need for more appropriate precarious methods. -
Research OfficerThe Home Office Nov 2014 - Oct 2015• Provided analytic support for the implementation of the United Kingdom’s Modern Slavery Strategy 2014 through all stages of the policy cycle. Researched the characteristics and prevalence of modern slavery, good practices, and evaluated indicators of the strategy’s success. • Collaborated with policy makers and key stakeholders in designing the process evaluation of the National Referral Mechanism Pilots working. Based on the available resources I assisted in evaluating and presenting to policy makers the most appropriate use of quantitative and qualitative research methods for measuring the impact of the Pilots.• Provided research support to the policy makers engaged in international collaboration on tackling modern slavery and human trafficking. Researched the international perspective of modern slavery issues and drafted briefings with the key findings to policy makers working on the global perspective of tackling modern slavery.• Drafted briefings for ministerial and stakeholder meetings and delivered briefings on research findings to policy makers. • Attended workshops and conferences and liaised with academics and international policy makers to build up a network that would provide feedback on good practices and research evidence from across the world. -
Freelance Commercial ResearcherFreelance Researcher Sep 2011 - Oct 2014London, United Kingdom• Worked with a range of business consultancies conducting research on the commercial, political and legal aspects of different business sectors in the Scandinavian markets. • Supported consultancy projects by researching and reporting on companies’ business model, organisational structure, and future business plans. Combined desk research with semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders from business managers, general counsels, and medical experts, to customers. • Liaised with potential business partners to encourage collaboration with the ongoing consultancy projects and to facilitate future business engagement.• Coordinated a volunteer panel of 100 volunteers for an international survey. Recruited, trained, and monitored the relationship with volunteers. Wrote performance reports to management and carried out performance improving initiatives among the volunteers.
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Disability Advisory Service - Support WorkerUniversity Of Oxford Nov 2012 - Jun 2013Oxford, United Kingdom• Supported research students by taking detailed notes and minutes of lectures and academic class and group activities for MBA students.• Taught presentation and report writing skills to students. Revised and corrected their report and PowerPoint layout, reference formats, and overall structural coherence of their work. • Tutored students in searching and gathering research data using resources, such as, academic journals, citations leads, and public organisations ’ databases. -
Non-Profit Organization Support WorkerNon-Profit Organization W.I.N.G - Michiwo Hakobu Nov 2008 - Aug 2009Osaka, Japan• Established and managed external relations with international organisations and institutions working in the disability area. Created exchange agreements of personnel and of best practices. • Researched disability related education and welfare systems. Searched, gathered, organised and categorised quantitative and qualitative data and drafted briefs and reports on the findings to stakeholders across the organisation. • Designed and implemented new electronic communication procedures that were more responsive and agile. Evaluated the new procedures and adjusted them according to user feedback.
Jacob Nielsen Education Details
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Sociology
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Jacob Nielsen attended University Of Liverpool, University Of Oxford, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Aarhus University.
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