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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