Research Assistant - London, United Kingdom - King's College London
Description
Job id:
Salary: £32,979 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance (pro rata for part time posts).
Posted: 14 February 2024.
Closing date: 06 March 2024.
Business unit:
Social Science & Public Policy
Department:
Department of Political Economy.
Location:
Strand Campus
Category:
Research.
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Job description
The Department of Political Economy is seeking to appoint up to two Predoc/Research Assistants to work part-time on the research project ADVODID with Anne Rasmussen.
It seeks to implement the first large-scale project designed to provide evidence on the effects of advocacy on citizens and policymakers in both online and offline settings.
It analyzes the use, impact and democratic consequences of digital advocacy strategies by assessing interactions of advocacy groups, citizens and political representatives in eight countries (potentially Australia, Chile, Denmark, India, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK, and the US).
The project sets out to address - theoretically and empirically - the potentials and challenges for modern democracies that arise from digital advocacy tools.
The successful applicants will have an excellent academic track record, a strong knowledge of research methods, and ideally have some expertise in experimental and/or quasi-experimental research and/or social data science.
The successful applicants will support the research across the project's three work packages with a potential to co-author research outputs from the project.
The successful applicants will be based at the Department of Political Economy at King's College London (e.g., attending departmental seminars, engaging with research groups etc.).
Founded in 2010, the department is the only dedicated Department of Political Economy in the UK offering a unique interdisciplinary environment with staff and students from all over the world.
Applications will be considered from MA and PhD students.
The posts will be offered on a fixed-term contract from 1stApril 2024 for a period of six months with strong potential for extension.
This post will be offered as a part-time or full-time position - with the potential to negotiate to actual time commitments before commencing the employment.
Key responsibilities
Help support research on the three work packages of the research project 'ADVODID', which includes:
Collecting data in collaboration with students assistants through for example original surveys, APIs, web-scraping and/or personal interviews
Cleaning, managing and analyzing quantitative data
Organizing events to disseminate the project's findings.
Potential to contribute to developing experimental, quasi-experimental or observational research designs in the political representation, advocacy and social media context
Potential to co-author research outputs from the project
- The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post._
Essential criteria
- Current MA or PhD student in Political Science, Communication Science, Data Science, Economics, Sociology, or a closely related discipline.
- Solid expertise in research methods, including experience with coding and data management in common statistical programming languages (e.g. Stata, R, and/or Python).
- A good grasp of relevant academic literature (e.g. theory and research on (inequality in) political representation, social media, digital democracy and/or interest groups).
- Demonstrated capacity for producing excellent papers published, or capable of being published, with academic journals and presses.
- Ability to conduct interviews in multiple languages spoken in the countries included in the study.
The selection process will include a panel interview, conducted online if necessary.
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