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Research Assistant

£34,145 - £34,145
Higher Education
Co Antrim
Temporary / Interim
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Job Description

Overview of the role

To assist in the project Mapping Bilingual Student Talk in NI Mainstream Classrooms. The project under the lead of Dr. Sultan Turkan (School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work) and in conjunction with external partners seeks to conduct classroom-based research on teacher-bilingual student talk. 

This role offers the opportunity to work with primary teachers and their bilingual students in linguistically and culturally diverse mainstream classrooms. 



Qualifications

None



Skills

Essential Criteria 

  • Classroom teaching experience 
  • PGCE in teaching a subject matter
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team 
  • Ability to work to deadlines 
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills 
  • Excellent communication skills to non-academic audience.

Desirable Criteria

  • Knowledge of NI schooling systems and operations
  • Experience in writing for publication
  • Experience in leadership activities
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Research Assistant

£35,100 - £35,100
Co Antrim
Higher Education
Temporary / Interim

Job description for QWork Assignment

  • Research Assistant in Management (up to a maximum of 4 hours per week for 30 weeks)
  • This part-time role (up to a maximum of 4 hours per week for 30 weeks) will support Dr Sara Melo, Senior Lecturer in Management, in her leading impact project. Supporting the design, implementation, continuous improvement, and effective use of Business Intelligence systems in decision-making at Portuguese NHS hospitals.

 

The Research Assistant will be responsible for:

  • Searching the Internet for examples of toolkits targeted at practitioners in general, and toolkits directly related with the design and implementation of Business Intelligence (BI) systems
  • Preliminary scoping literature review on the models used to evaluate the readiness of hospitals to implement BI systems
  • Collaborate in the graphical design of the paper-based versions of a toolkit (draft and final versions) to be targeted at hospital practitioners to support them in the design, implementation and continuous improvement of a hospital BI system.
  • Identification of examples of activities that could be implemented at the different stages of the creation of a national network/community of practice of hospital staff
  • Identification of examples of questionnaires to measure the impact of research dissemination workshops with practitioners


Qualifications

Applicants must be currently studying towards a PhD.  



Skills
  • Applicants who have an interest in communicating research to non-academic stakeholders.
  • This part-time role is intended for an individual who is currently a PhD student.
  • Good written and verbal communication skills are essential. There is no need to know Portuguese as all the Research Assistant work will be in English.

Data Dive Evaluation Assistant

£39,000 - £39,000
London - Central
Higher Education
Temporary / Interim

Daily diary and reflection of data dive 
Write summaries for evaluation wrap up report and collate slides 
Other tasks as required by Interim Director of CUSP



Qualifications

Experience working with CUSP London, Data Dive events we hold, teaching experience and confident use of:

analytics, R, Python & QGIS.



Skills

Experience working with CUSP London, Data Dive events we hold, teaching experience and confident use of:

analytics, R, Python & QGIS.

Research Assistant

£41,126 - £41,126
England-London
Higher Education
Temporary / Interim

Wildfires are almost inevitably portrayed as disasters, ignited through carelessness or arson with a massive impact on people?s lives, fauna and flora, and the global carbon budget. Yet recent research, including by the ?Just Fires? group of the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society (e.g. Smith et al., 2024), highlights the important role of traditional fire management in supporting people?s livelihoods and creating a patchy biodiverse landscape which mitigates against unintentional and disastrous fires. The project aims to explore the framing of landscape fire in international conventions and agreements as a first step to understanding how these affect national- and local-level fire governance. The study will focus on key international policy frameworks, including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and other relevant agreements, to analyse how fire is positioned in relation to climate, biodiversity, and land use governance. This will be achieved by:

  1. Analysing the extent to which international policies directly target landscape fires, and/or indirectly affect fires (e.g. by changing land use);
  2. Exploring potentially contradictory framings of landscape fires in relation to their impacts on carbon emissions, biodiversity and human wellbeing and livelihoods. 

The successful applicant will contribute to this study by: 

  1. Undertaking a literature review on international fire policy (about 30 hours), 
  2. Identifying relevant policy documents at international level (about 30 hours), and 
  3. Undertaking initial coding of the policy documents (about 40 hours).

Depending on the outcomes of the research, there may be an opportunity to contribute to a publication on international fire policy. The successful applicant will join the Leverhulme Wildfires Centre and be supervised by Professor Kate Schreckenberg (Geography, KCL) and Dr Will Hayes (Geography, RHUL).

The total number of hours for this job = 100 hours

 



Qualifications

Master-level quealification in Geography, Political Science, Natural Resource, Governance and related subjects.

Applicants should provide a 2-page CV and a cover letter explaining how they meet the essential and desirable skills.



Skills

Essential skills:

  • Ability to undertake independent research
  • Experience of carrying out a literature review
  • Use of NVivo, Excel or other software for thematic 
  • Good writing skills in English

Desirable skills:

  • Experience of policy analysis
  • Interest in and work on wildfires
  • Interest in climate change, land use and conservation policy
  • Collaborative research
  • Familiarity with international environmental agreements

 

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