Postdoctoral Research Assistant ( Internal Only )

Job number

 CLS00083

School / Service

 The City Law School

Department

 Academic Programmes

Location

 Sebastian Street

Contract type

 Fixed-term

Job category

 Research

Hours

 Part-time

Salary min

 Hourly Paid

Salary max

 £42,632

Publication date

 25-Oct-2024

Closing date

 07-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.

Dr Alijeva and Prof Ahmed of The City Law School are conducting a research project that analyses the jurisprudence of the UN Human Rights Committee specifically in regard to cases concerning ethnic, religious, linguistic and other minorities, as well as the perspectives of the minority rights stakeholders on the uses and accessibility of the UN level human rights protection processes. This project is part of a dynamic and growing impactful research agenda.

The post is to support the lead researchers in successfully implementing the project activities that include: conducting a scoping review of the relevant literature spanning disciplines of law, political science, and postcolonial studies (peer-reviewed journal articles, books, and grey literature); development of a dataset of qualitative sources using NVivo software; assistance with organisation and implementation of an international hybrid workshop with a diverse range of participants.

The successful candidate will have a PhD degree (or be close to completion, in Law, Political Science or other relevant disciplines. The successful candidate will also have knowledge on international human rights law and minority rights protection and have experience in conducting qualitative research using qualitative data management software (ideally NVivo).

They will demonstrate research experience in understanding the roles of international organisations and human rights protection mechanisms, with a special application for protection of minorities, and will have knowledge of qualitative data coding processes. They will have the ability to synthesise and analyse large amounts of information quickly and communicate this effectively in writing.

Finally, they will have experience in organizing, implementing and reporting on large international hybrid events that engage with academic and non- academic stakeholders.

Closing date for applications: 7th November 2024 at 11:59pm.

The selection process will involve an interview with both competency and scenario-based questions.

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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