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Research Associate

£47,385 - £47,385
 

Job Description

Job Description:
Research associate to support specific research studies on palliative dementia care - EMBED-Care and EMPOWER Dementia Network+. Role will include coordination of public and policy engagement activities, update of systematic reviews (data extraction, analysis, reporting and publication), and co-production and public engagement for the EMPOWER Dementia Network 

Duties:
Public and Policy engagement: EMBED-Care - co-ordinating public engagement installation 'Dementia Journeys' at London Bridge Station. Liaising with public engagement consultant re materials, collating evaluation report as a short-report for publication. Policy engagement supporting coordination of parlimentary event and prepartion of policy report detailing policy priorities and underpinning evidence. Systematic reviews: EMBED-Care - data extraction of identified eligible published evidence; update results including tables and figures and narrative reporting; and preparation for publication. Two reviews: 'Service level interventions to promote quality of life for adults with dementia in the last 1 or 2 years of life' update tables and figures, prepare for publication; 'Individual level interventions to promote wellbeing for family carers of people with dementia near end of life' - reporting of results and discussion Co-production and public engagement: EMPOWER Dementia Network - coordination of meetings with community partners, lived experts and researchers, planning delivery of activities for year 1 including co-creation workshop, and network promotion e.g. website, social media



Qualifications

Qualifications (if applicable):
PhD in health or social sciences or related area



Skills

Experience and skills:
Expertise in health or social sciences at post-doctoral level. Experience in systematic reviews using narrative synthesis - data extraction and results reporting. Experience of public and/or policy engagement and supporting research studies in the health or social sciences. Interest in long-term conditions, dementia and/or palliative care, desirable. 

 

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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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Qualifications

A PhD.



Skills

Essential:

Knowledge of research into gender inequality in STEM education.

Experience of conducting semi-structured interviews.

Experience of the analysis of interview data.

Experience of writing papers related to gender inequality in STEM education.

 

Desirable:

Experience of preparing materials for semi-structured interviews.

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