Research Assistant New

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.

BA/MA in Linguistics, Psychology or related discipline. 

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.

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

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

Working with the Director of HR Operations, Head of Contingent Workforce and Procurement Directorate, this role will be responsible for sourcing, collecting, organising, analysing and interrogating all recruitment related spend category data. Findings will be reconciled to recruitment outcomes so that the spend can be attributed to contingent worker salaries and fees, agency placement fees and advertising related recruitment costs, with the overall aim to reduce spend on non-permanent agency costs. All data and analysis to be the presented and translated into information and insight that meets the needs of various stakeholders across the university and will contribute to a drive to reduce overall costs.  

This is a hybrid position, you will be expected to work in the office 2 days per week. 

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The job holder will source and gather data from known/standard sources - manipulating routine data so it can be interpreted by others. They may be required to select the most appropriate procedure, technique or approach to conduct analysis and research, deciding how to undertake the work as well as analysing, identifying, and interpreting trends. The job holder will be expected to have excellent understanding of specialist tools to extract the data needed as well as an advanced knowledge of Excel, Power BI, Tableau etc. 

•  Work with HR and Procurement teams to investigate and identify all agency and advertising recruitment spend using a variety of systems and platforms. 
• Work with the Recruitment advisers to ascertain the actual status and outcome of all current vacancies.  
• Collaboratively work with internal and external stakeholders to investigate and review the data required to complete the objective of reducing agency spend within Kings for non-permanent staff. 
• Identify activity data for each vacancy advertisement, including views, impressions, applications, shortlisted candidates, and placements, to ascertain value for money and inform future decisions. 
• Produce visualisations and reports (using tools like Tableau, Power BI, and SQL) and present findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders in a clear, actionable manner showing usage data and trends to inform future sourcing and hiring decisions.  
• Create data dashboards, graphs and visualisations 
• Work with the recruitment team to incorporate data capture and analysis.  
• Support Manager with data analysis for all activity with all external providers. 

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post. 

Essential criteria 

​Experience using PowerBI for data analysis and reporting   

​Strong technical skills in data analysis, optimisation, and dashboard creation.  

​Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret and synthesise large data sets.  

​Experience of collaboratively working with internal and external stakeholders. 

​Excellent communication and problem-solving abilities.  

​Problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot data issues and improve reporting processes.  

​Strong attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy. 

​Desirable criteria 

​Experience in the higher education sector or a similar environment.  

​Experience working with other data visualisation tools and methodologies.