New Opportunities with The Global Centre for Contextual Safeguarding
In September 2025 Durham University will launch the Global Centre for Contextual Safeguarding (GCCS). The GCCS, led by Durham’s Sociology Department, Business School and School of Education, will bring together departments across the four faculties of the University to: transform how societies understand and deliver services that safeguard young people beyond their homes; create systems that look beyond the capacity of parents to protect children; and build sustainable partnerships in which safeguarding is truly everybody's business. This is not a centre simply focused on researching and improving existing safeguarding practices; it is instead committed to a radical transformation in how safeguarding is conceptualised, studied, and practiced, and by whom. The Centre will achieve this by building a critical interdisciplinary effort to cement an emergent field of research. It will implement that research in collaboration with others to reform policy and legal frameworks, and the organisational practices, that govern the provision and evaluation of services around the world. It will scale that implementation through commercial partnerships with industries beyond traditional safeguarding partnerships; providing various routes to learn about Contextual Safeguarding that transcends sector boundaries.
As we begin steps to build the GCCS we are recruiting research staff and PGR studentships. We will continue to update on opportunities to join the GCCS here.
Academic Posts
Assistant Professor in Education (Research and Education)
Click here for Job Description and to apply
Closing date 14 May 2025
PhD studentship
Contextual Safeguarding in Hospitality
Co-supervised between Sociology, Business and Psychology in collaboration with McDonald’s UK and Ireland. Click here for full details and application information
Closing date 16 May 2025