Overview
Research Associate – Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
About us
The School of Global Affairs (SGA) in the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy at King’s is a dynamic hub of multi-disciplinary scholarship that seeks to address the pressing issues facing our world today, including climate change, inequality and global health.
At King’s, we are deeply committed to embedding good equality and diversity practices into all our activities so that the university is an inclusive, welcoming, and inspiring place to work and study, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation. King’s offers inclusive benefits to staff, including flexible working, Enhanced Parental Leave, funds for Parents and Carers, and the potential to join community staff networks.
About the role
The successful candidate will work as a research associate on a large Wellcome Discovery Award project which will examine life-course inequities for LGBTQ+ people. The project focuses on housing-related institutions, including central government departments and local authorities, to understand the processes by which institutions, communities, and individuals, reproduce or mitigate health inequities experienced by LGBTQ+ people. The candidate will lead the conduct of a qualitative study, under the guidance of the Workpage Lead (Zeena Feldman) and the Principal Investigator (Laia Becares). The candidate will also provide support across other activities of the project, particularly around the integration of learning from across datasets and workpackages.
To lead on all components of a qualitative project focused on understanding the role UK housing institutions and processes play in shaping the health of LGBTQ+ people over the life course. Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
- Conduct semi-structured interviews with diverse stakeholders, and manage transcription thereof.
- Follow up with current participants to arrange additional interviews, where needed.
- Draft, submit and track Freedom of Information requests.
- Conduct corpus-assisted thematic and/or critical discourse analysis of interviews, policy documents and other datasets.
- Lead recruitment of potential participants through government, charity, community, social media and other routes.
- First author peer-reviewed, high-impact academic publications.
- Liaise and collaborate with the network of academic, community and charity members
- Co-develop non-academic outputs for policymakers and third sector stakeholders.
- Attend, organise and participate in and minute meetings.
- Present the project and project findings at academic and non-academic events.
- Represent the study at various meetings to facilitate recruitment, promotion and dissemination.
- Secure ethics clearance for research involving human subjects, including research with vulnerable participants and sensitive topics.
- Lead on the write up of findings for academic papers, conferences and reports.
- Lead on the integration of community and charity partners in the conduct of the analysis and interpretation of findings.
- Lead on the development of public facing dissemination resources on the findings of the study.
This is a full-time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract for 29 months
Research staff at King’s are entitled to at least 10 days per year (pro-rata) for professional development. This entitlement, from the Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers, applies to Postdocs, Research Assistants, Research and Teaching Technicians, Teaching Fellows and AEP equivalent up to and including grade 7. Visit the Centre for Research Staff Development for more information.
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