Research Assistant (part-time)

Job id: 085491. Wage: £37,332 every year, together with London Weighting Allowance (professional rata for half time posts).

Posted: 28 February 2024. Time limit: 20 March 2024.

Enterprise unit: Social Science & Public Coverage. Division: Division of Political Economic system.

Contact particulars:Anne Rasmussen. [email protected]

Location: Strand Campus. Class: Analysis.

Job description

The Division of Political Economic system is searching for to nominate a Predoc/Analysis Assistant to work part-time on the analysis mission ADVODID with Anne Rasmussen.  The Advocacy in Digital Democracy (ADVODID) mission is funded by an European Analysis Council Consolidator Grant. It seeks to implement the primary large-scale mission designed to offer proof on the results of advocacy on residents and policymakers in each on-line and offline settings. It analyzes the use, impression and democratic penalties of digital advocacy methods by assessing interactions of advocacy teams, residents and political representatives in eight international locations (probably Australia, Chile, Denmark, India, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK, and the US). The mission units out to deal with – theoretically and empirically – the potentials and challenges for contemporary democracies that come up from digital advocacy instruments. 

The profitable applicant may have a superb tutorial observe document, a powerful information of analysis strategies, and ideally have some experience in experimental and/or quasi-experimental analysis and/or social knowledge science. The profitable applicant will assist the analysis throughout the mission’s three work packages with a possible to co-author analysis outputs from the mission. 

The profitable applicant can be primarily based on the Division of Political Economic system at King’s Faculty London (e.g., attending departmental seminars, partaking with analysis teams and so forth.). Based in 2010, the division is the one devoted Division of Political Economic system within the UK providing a novel interdisciplinary surroundings with workers and college students from everywhere in the world.   

Purposes can be thought-about from MA and PhD college students.  

All functions ought to embody: 1) a canopy letter; and a pair of) a CV (together with names of two referees) and three) a single-authored writing pattern. 

The submit can be provided on a fixed-term contract from 1stApril 2024 for a interval of six months with robust potential for extension. A later begin date can also be an possibility. 

The submit can be provided as a part-time place at 20% FTE.

Key duties

• Assist assist analysis on the three work packages of the analysis mission ‘ADVODID’, which incorporates: 
• Accumulating knowledge in collaboration with college students assistants by for instance authentic surveys, APIs, web-scraping and/or private interviews 
• Cleansing, managing and analyzing quantitative knowledge 
• Organizing occasions to disseminate the mission’s findings.
• Potential to contribute to creating experimental, quasi-experimental or observational analysis designs within the political illustration, advocacy and social media context 
• Potential to co-author analysis outputs from the mission 

The above listing of duties might not be exhaustive, and the submit holder can be required to undertake such duties and duties as could moderately be anticipated throughout the scope and grading of the submit.

Expertise, information, and expertise 

Important standards

1.       Present MA or PhD pupil in Political Science, Communication Science, Knowledge Science, Economics, Sociology, or a carefully associated self-discipline. 

2.       Stable experience in analysis strategies, together with expertise with coding and knowledge administration in widespread statistical programming languages (e.g. Stata, R, and/or Python). 

Fascinating standards

3.       An excellent grasp of related tutorial literature (e.g. concept and analysis on (inequality in) political illustration, social media, digital democracy and/or curiosity teams). 

4.       Demonstrated capability for producing glorious papers printed, or able to being printed, with tutorial journals and presses. 

5.       Expertise with creating and making use of quasi-experimental and experimental analysis designs. 

6.       Capacity to conduct interviews in a number of languages spoken within the international locations included within the examine.  

The choice course of will embody a panel interview, performed on-line if essential.