MPS is Hiring! Call for Peer Researchers

  • Are you interested in increasing understanding of how people in Scotland experience racial diversity in the areas where they live?
  • Do you have networks, interests and community ties that would help us to reach at least one of the following groups of people – recent migrants; longer-established migrants; Scottish-born ethnic minorities; white Scots – in Edinburgh, Aberdeen or Fife?
  • Do you already have peer research skills and experience, or would you like to be trained in these?

Apply to join our team of peer researchers! Deadline for applications is Midnight on Monday 23rd February 2026.

We are recruiting a team of 12 peer researchers based in Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Fife for our project Better Mixing: Supporting Scotland’s diverse future. Peer researchers will receive full training and will conduct interviews and focus groups between April and December 2026. The team will include peer researchers with diverse backgrounds including: white Scots, Scots from an ethnic minority, people with lived experience of migration to Scotland.