Architectural Researcher

Hawkins\Brown are looking for a Architectural Researcher to join the team!
As an innovative architectural company, we are actively expanding our specialist capacities, acknowledging the growing complexity of the built environment. This role will offer the opportunity to engage with architectural design from a broad range of perspectives, question current practice and create opportunities for real change.

If you want to combine multiple disciplines that seem to be living in different universes, indulge yourself with academic research without losing the ground beneath your feet, and be creative with the idiosyncrasies of built environment research: look no further; you found the right place.

We are looking for a new member of our social research team to support ongoing projects and help us expand our GIS/Data analytics offer. The position will have two focus areas:

• You will help design teams and research projects with GIS data analysis and simultaneously grow and develop the H\Bs capacities in this field. You will look at a wide range of socio-economic, environmental and spatial data and use GIS software to support and test architectural/urban designs.

• You will work on a major, EU-funded architectural research project on the future of STEAM teaching spaces, running over the next three years. We collaborate with a range of international partners such as the Louvre, the University of Barcelona, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Bergen and various educational organisations across Europe. Your role will be – amongst others - to read and summarise research literature, write research reports/papers, assist in designing and delivering field studies in schools and produce diagrammatic output.

The aspect that connects these two fields will be your curiosity to understand how the built environment shapes human behaviour and socio-economic structures and vice versa, albeit at different scales and within diverse contexts. But the essence is the same: at HB, we are deeply interested in linking spatial and social aspects of life, and if you feel that is something that excites you we are interested in hearing from you.

We would expect you to be able to creatively work with a wide range of qualitative and quantitative evidence. Combined with a flexible, inquisitive mindset, these analytic skills will be more important than technical software knowledge, which you will learn on the way. We are more interested in your attitude than in software skills.

We are an architectural practice and work in a communicative environment within multidisciplinary teams. Good communication skills, verbally, written and visually, are, therefore, essential. You will be able to explain and summarise complex subjects in a wide range of media to people from all backgrounds.

Ideally, you have a degree in the built environment or related humanities, such as geography or sociology. A combination of degrees would be beneficial. However, the key is not the type of degree but your keen interest in applying your knowledge and research curiosity to the built environment. You should be driven by a passion for design processes and how they impact human behaviour and social structures.

To view the full job description, please download the attached PDF from our website.

ED&I notice

Hawkins\Brown is an equal opportunities employer. We know that diverse teams are strong teams, and welcome people of all identities, backgrounds, and experiences to apply. We want you to step into a role you love and offer you a workplace you’re proud to represent We are committed to a fair and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. We would be happy to make any reasonable adjustments during the application or interview process, please just let us know.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave, which increases with years of service up to 28-days
• Duvet Day
• Private Medical Insurance
• Hybrid working
• Flexitime
• 4% employer pension contribution
• Discretionary Profit Share Scheme
• Subsidised gym membership
• Insured on our Life Assurance and Income Protection schemes
• Interest free travel loan
• Rental deposit loan
• Training and development programmes