"Research Associate/ Research Fellow (qualitative/mixed methods)"

Job Description

Research Associate/ Research Fellow (qualitative/mixed methods)

Type: 1-year contract (renewable), full-time, Singapore-based

What You’ll Do

1. Community-Engaged and Mixed-Methods Research
   • Co-design and facilitate participatory workshops with residents, practitioners, and agencies to explore how hub design and programming build community capacity (“Heart, Head, Hands”).
   • Conduct citizen-science and community-sensing activities, including walk-alongs, photovoice, community mapping, and nominal group techniques to surface lived experiences and local knowledge.
   • Collaborate with NAFA (Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts) to develop and implement arts-based engagement approaches for user journey mapping, intergenerational dialogue, and participatory profiling.
   • Synthesize and triangulate quantitative and qualitative data to generate practice-oriented insights—informing the development of user archetypes, and evaluation frameworks.
2. Stakeholder Engagement and Translation
   • Conduct interviews and focus groups to understand governance and partnership practices across community hubs.
   • Coordinate a multi-agency advisory group involving academics, government, and industry partners.
   • Translate findings into toolkits, templates, referral workflows, and training modules for practitioners.
   • Prepare and present policy briefs, reports, and visual summaries for government and community audiences.
3. Development of Measurement Tools
   • Design and lead the development of measurement frameworks and tools to assess key constructs such as social capital, community capacity, trust, and place-based engagement.
   • Conduct comprehensive literature reviews and qualitative research (e.g., interviews, focus groups) to inform index development and benchmarking
   • Lead Delphi panels and structured expert consultations to refine item wording, assess relevance, and determine weightings of index components.
   • Collaborate with data analysts to pilot test, revise, and finalize measurement tools suitable for both academic evaluation and practitioner use.
4. Project Management and Ethics
   • Manage IRB submissions, ethics documentation, and data governance processes.
   • Ensure data integrity, documentation, and reproducibility across research partners.
   • Track project milestones, reporting, and deliverables under the Cities of Tomorrow (CoT) R&D Programme.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of applied research experience in community, health, or built-environment project. Interdisciplinary backgrounds and applied research experience in real-world settings are highly valued.
• Methodological Expertise
  • Demonstrated experience with qualitative research, community-based participatory research (CBPR) or co-design methods
  • Familiarity with mixed-methods research, ideally in the development of measurement tools and participatory evaluation
• Communication and Engagement
  • Strong writing and analytical skills, with a track record of producing reports, briefs, or academic outputs.
  • Skilled in stakeholder engagement, workshop facilitation, and communicating complex findings to non-academic audiences.
• Comfortable using media and digital platforms—including social media, infographics, and visual storytelling—to support community engagement and knowledge translation.
• Fluency in English as the candidate will coordinate a multi-agency advisory group involving academics, government, and industry partners.

Qualifications

• Master’s/PhD in Public Health, Anthropology, Urban Planning, Human Geography, Psychology, Data Science, or related disciplines

More Information

Location: Kent Ridge Campus

Organization: Saw Swee Hock School of Public H