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Research Assistant

£39,000 - £39,000
 

Job Description

We are seeking to appoint a Research Assistant to join the School of Population Health Sciences. As a Research Assistant, your contributions will support our research activities including participant recruitment, data collection, and analysis on innovative projects relating to digital therapeutic interventions in military health.




Qualifications

An undergraduate or postgraduate degree in a relevant field (e.g. Psychology, Public Health, or a related discipline).



Skills

  • Prior experience in Military Health and Digital Health projects.

  • Implementing strategies for the effective recruitment of study participants.

  • Supporting the planning and execution of research projects.

  • Participating in quantitative and qualitative data collection processes including qualitative interviews and contributing to the analysis and interpretation of data.

  • Competency in using data analysis software and tools e.g. Nvivo.

  • Assisting in the preparation of research findings for publication in peer-reviewed journals.

  • Working knowledge of conducting systematic literature reviews.

  • Understanding of risk management when working with vulnerable or high-risk populations in research.

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This position entails working as a research assistant for a study that investigates the processing of non-standard grammatical constructions in speakers of British English using eye-tracking while reading. The project is led by Eloi Puig-Mayenco from the School of Education, Communication, and Society at King?s College London.

 

The primary responsibilities of the research assistant will involve overseeing participant recruitment and conducting on-site eye-tracking data collection sessions at the Waterloo Bridge Wing building, located on the Waterloo campus. Additionally, the RA will handle initial data trimming and processing. The breakdown of allocated hours for each task is as follows:

 

15 hours for preparation, training, and meetings.

40 hours for testing: accommodating 40 participants with sessions lasting 1 hours each.

5 hours for data processing.

 

The research assistant will receive comprehensive training and mentoring to successfully carry out these responsibilities.

 

Interviews will take place mid-January.

 



Qualifications

BA/MA in Linguistics, Psychology or related discipline. 

 



Skills

Essential:

Familiarity and ability to use Microsoft packages (e.g., good Excel command).

Undergraduate level knowledge in linguistics, psychology and/or education research or related field.

 

Desirable:

Interest in eye-tracking methodologies.

Experience with statistical analysis applied to language-related research.

 

This position entails working as a research assistant for a study that investigates the development of Catalan as a heritage language in the United Kingdom. The project is led by Eloi Puig-Mayenco from the School of Education, Communication, and Society at King?s College London.

The primary responsibilities of the research assistant will involve overseeing participant recruitment and conducting remote participant in two testing sessions in a battery of tasks (assessment of receptive vocabulary, production of specific syntactic structures and elicitation of spontaneous production data). Additionally, the RA will handle initial data trimming and processing. The breakdown of allocated hours for each task is as follows:

1. 30 hours for preparation, training, and finalizing materials.

2. 100 hours for testing: accommodating 40 participants in two sessions lasting 1 hour each hours, alongside organization of the data from testing sessions for 30 minutes. In total, the RA will spend 2.5 hour per participant.

3. 20 hours for initial data trimming.

 

The research assistant will receive comprehensive training and mentoring to successfully carry out these responsibilities.

 

Interviews will take place mid-January.

 



Qualifications

BA/MA in Linguistics, Education, Psychology or related discipline. 

 



Skills

Essential:

Familiarity and ability to use Microsoft packages (e.g., good Excel command)

Undergraduate level knowledge in linguistics, psychology and/or education research or related field

Excellent working proficiency in both Catalan and English

DBS certificate 

 

Desirable:

Experience working with children

Good organisational skills

Social awareness and good communication skills

Experience in research methodologies

 

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