Research Assistant

King?s Culture are looking for a student to do a small amount of transcription work and collate some survey data, to help us with the evaluation of our Lost & Found season of events, which have taken place across the 2024-25 academic year.
The work involves typing up hand-written reflections cards from various events, and separating out attendance numbers and survey data for individual events. In addition, pulling out useful quotes from the responses that we can use in our wider evaluation report. 
We anticipate the work will take approximately 5 hours in total, plus an hour paid induction time, and can be done flexibly and remotely across June ? July as is convenient. 
The hourly rate for the role is ?14.88.
 

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The survey data is in Excel and the data will be pulled together into a Word document, so some familiarity with both Excel and Word will be expected. Previous experience of transcription or processing data is preferable. 

The Faculty of Natural, Mathematical, and Engineering Sciences (NMES) is hiring Scanning Assistants for the upcoming exam period. Scanning Assistants help with an NMES project to scan and process paper exams for marking on a digital platform. Working within a team of scanning assistants, this role involves organising paper exam scripts, scanning these in batches, and organising the resulting digital files. 

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Supported by the NMES Faculty Technology Enhanced Learning team, this role requires a high degree of attention to detail, ability to follow multi-step processes, and communicate well in a group-managed project; candidates are welcome from any Faculty within the College. 

We are seeking a temporary Research Assistant to support a project led by Jo Underwood and The Policy Institute at King?s College London over the summer of 2025. The role will focus on drafting an initial report summarising preliminary findings from research conducted in 2024?25.

Project Overview:

• The research examines how London?s local authorities process in-person homelessness applications.
• FOI requests were submitted to all London boroughs by Jo and King?s Legal Clinic.
• Additional qualitative research has included stakeholder interviews and a roundtable exploring the impact of closed in-person referrals on A&E departments.

Research Experience 

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct a short literature review on the impact of ?closed-door? local authority practices on:
  • People experiencing homelessness
  • A&E and emergency healthcare services
• Review and quality-check existing data (FOIs, interviews, roundtable notes)
• Draft a short-format report and/or public-facing outputs (e.g., blog posts, opinion pieces) to support future funding efforts