Research Assistant (Internal Only)

Job number

 SPGA00077

School / Service

 School of Policy & Global Affairs

Department

 The Violence and Society Centre

Location

 Rhind Building

Contract type

 Permanent and Fixed Term

Job category

 Research

Hours

 Part-time

Salary min

 £39,105

Salary max

 £39,105

Publication date

 30-Oct-2024

Closing date

 13-Nov-2024

City St George's, University of London is the University of business, practice and the professions and brings together the expertise and excellence of City, University of London and St George's, University of London into one institution.

The combined university is one of the largest suppliers of the health workforce in the capital, as well as one of the largest higher education destinations for London students.

Combining a breadth of disciplines across health, business, law, creativity, communications, science and technology, we are creating a ‘health powerhouse' for students, researchers, the NHS and partners in uniting a world-leading specialist health university. We are now one of the UK's largest health educators, where staff and students have access to an expanded team of brilliant academic and professional services colleagues, combined resources and facilities and more interdisciplinary opportunities.

The merger creates opportunities to generate significant change in the world of healthcare including changes to treatment, population health monitoring, workforce development and leadership, policy, and advocacy.

The project Systematic Review, Data Synthesis And Meta-Analysis Of Research Documenting Sexual Violence Along Migration Routes is funded by the British Academy / Leverhulme Small Grants Fund.

The project, led by PI Alexandria Innes, will produce a Systematic Review and Meta Analysis of qualitative research documenting sexual violence that happens during undocumented migration journeys. This is the first stage of a larger project assessing routes to prevent sexual violence against migrants who travel without state authorisation.

The project is housed within the Violence and Society Centre at the University of London, a multi-disciplinary research centre. Staff are in the School of Policy and Global Affairs, including Sociology and International Politics, the School of Health and Psychological Sciences and the City Law School. The Centre engages with data providers and data users to develop professional practice and policies, both nationally and internationally. The Centre holds research grants, supervises PhDs, and runs seminars and conferences.

The Research Assistant will support the PI to carry out the systematic review, working in collaboration with the PI to screen abstracts and full texts, to extract and code data and assess for quality and risk of bias in included texts.

The Research Assistant role will include training in systematic review methodology and qualitative data coding.

Candidates are expected to have a relevant bachelors' degree and be enrolled in a relevant HEI course. They will have experience reading and critically reviewing published academic research and will have knowledge of qualitative research methods.

Experience of qualitative data coding using NVIVO would be an advantage.

Closing date for applications: 13th November 2024 at 11:59pm.

The post is funded to 1st December 2025 for 7 hours per week.

To apply and for more information about the post please use the links below.

City St George's offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

City St George's, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors.

We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

City St George's operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.

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