Research Assistant

Job Description

About the role

The Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities seeks to appoint a research assistant for a period of 2 months (from February to April 2025). We are looking for a researcher with experience of conducting oral interviews, transcription and synthesizing results who would join a team working on the Enhancing Inclusive Education project funded by the King's Strategic College Teaching Fund. There will be regular team meetings with the project co-leads: Dr Pavan Mano (pavan.mano@kcl.ac.uk) & Dr Jean Smith (jean.smith@kcl.ac.uk) and there is some scope for the RA to contribute to shaping the data collection exercise by way of methodologies used. Experience with navigating the ethics approval process is not essential but would be a bonus.

This post involves 100 hours of work (at a rate of pay ?20.95ph) to be completed over a 2 month period (February to April 2025). Current PhD students/recently-graduated PhDs are strongly encouraged to apply.

 

Project details

Enhancing Inclusive Education and Pedagogy in Diverse Online Classrooms: A Pilot Study on the MA in Global Cultures is an inclusive education project that aims to develop a staff handbook that documents pedagogical best practice around inclusive online education. It will be developed out of the MA in Global Cultures (MAGC), an interdisciplinary, fully-online MA launched in 2021 and jointly-based in the Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities & Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.

The research assistant will be responsible primarily for gathering data on students' experiences of the MAGC via oral interviews, focus groups & surveys as well as synthesizing the headline findings of the data collection in a short report. These findings will feed into the guidance being developed for the staff handbook.



Qualifications
  • Postgraduate qualification (MA/MSc/PhD)


Skills
  • Experience / familiarity with conducting oral interviews or oral histories as a research method
  • Able to transcribe interview results and summarize key findings
  • Good organizational & time management skills and ability to work independently

Desirable:

  • Experience with ethics approval 
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Presenting at a workshop.



Qualifications

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Skills

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The Centre of European Law at King's College London is seeking a research assistant. 

The research assistant will help with completing a literature review, as well as background initial research (ECJ case law, EU institutions documents and reports, possibly national legislation) on the rule of law and independence of judiciary. They will help with contacting and liaising with various potential partners on the project, as well as organising several in-person events in London. They will collaborate with the grants and the events team at The Dickson Poon School of Law in carrying out their tasks.



Qualifications

PhD in relevant subject



Skills

The research assistant will be a doctoral or a postdoctoral researcher seeking to obtain experience with writing a large grant application. EU law knowledge is required, as well as experience in researching EU law databases. Knowledge in the area of the rule of law, independence of the judiciary, judicial politics is desirable. Working knowledge of one or more of the following languages is a plus: French, German, Polish, Italian. 

  • Perform intense desktop research on ?middle powers? within International Relations Theory, especially in relation to Africa. 
  • Read and gather all relevant information and data related to the above topic. 
  • Establish literature availability as well as collate and examine relevant literature sources to produce :
    • A ?data dump? of relevant material
    • A literature review document across the research topic, 1500-2000 words.
  • Consider and highlight interesting avenues of enquiry that emerge from the research, and list possible further research questions. 
  • Compile bibliography (with abstracts or summary) of any and all sources consulted throughout the research. 


Qualifications

None



Skills

Experience researching and learning International Relations Theory generally and Middle Powers in particular

Experience in compiling and producing a literature review

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