Research Assistant - Egham, United Kingdom - Royal Holloway University of London

Royal Holloway University of London
Royal Holloway University of London
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Egham, United Kingdom

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Tom O´Connor

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Department of English:


Location:


  • Egham
    Salary:
  • Starting Salary is £14.

71 per hour (including London Allowance)
Post Type:

  • Part Time
    Closing Date:

hours BST on Tuesday 27 June 2023
Reference:
Casual Post (100 hours in total) Fixed Term until 31 July 2024.

Applications are invited for the post of Research Assistant in the Department of English, on a project entitled

Climate Keywords:
Towards a Digital Analysis of Environmental Concepts in the UN Corpus.

You will have 3rd-year undergraduate coding skills in Python and R.

You will be required to work alongside an established computer scientist to prepare UN data for investigation using custom-designed lexical association and visualisation packages, all of which will be explained to you.

This role would suit a Masters or early Ph.
D-level computer scientist or computationally-literate corpus linguist.

You will gain significant, hands-on experience of starting a digital research project in the humanities, the organisation of a research event which will be held over a weekend in December, and the collation of data which will form the basis of at least two academic articles.

The team will be comprised of the P.I, an advisor and you.

In return we offer a highly competitive rewards and benefits package including:

  • Generous annual leave entitlement
  • Training and Development opportunities
  • Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution
  • Various schemes including Cycle to Work, Season Ticket Loans and help with the cost of Eyesight testing.
  • Free parking


The post is based in Egham, Surrey where the College is situated in a beautiful, leafy campus near to Windsor Great Park and within commuting distance from London.


Royal Holloway recognises the importance of helping its employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements.

We are happy to consider a request for flexible working for this post including part time, job share or compressed working hours.


Please quote the reference
:

Closing Date
:23:59, 27 June 2023
Interview Date
:11 July 2023

Further details:


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