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The School of Politics & Economics will be recruiting Welcome Desk Assistants to help in the School Office for Welcome Week (16th September - 20th September 2024) and the first week of teaching (23rd September - 27th September 2024).  

This is a great opportunity to help welcome new and returning students at the start of the new term. Welcome Desk Assistants will staff the front desk of the School of Politics and Economics main office, Room 7.01 in Bush House North East Building. Throughout these weeks, the School Education Office will be attending academic and welcome inductions for students so you will be the first point of contact for student queries, helping with questions such as how to find timetables, access KEATS, signpost to wellbeing services or locate a room on campus.  

For more complex queries, you will take full details and contact information and pass on to the Programme teams for them to respond directly to the student. This is a fantastic opportunity to enhance your administration, communication, and support service skills as well as problem-solving, active listening and attentiveness.  

In-between queries, you will be asked to complete administrative tasks such as supporting us in designing a mentoring pilot scheme, reviewing and providing student perspectives on policies, testing submission forms and researching initiatives to support our careers offer.  

Welcome Desk Assistants will work in shifts, so we are looking for people who are available between 10-1PM or 1-4PM. Welcome Desk Assistants will be paid at a standard student rate of ?13.92 per hour.  

To apply for shifts for this role, please complete the questions on this job advert. If you pass our pre-screening, you will be invited for an informal call to discuss the role further.  

Please note, this role is open to Undergraduate and Postgraduate students enrolled in the following departments which sit in the School of Politics and Economics: Department of Political Economy, European & International Studies, and King?s Russia Institute only. 

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• Excellent customer service - ability to interact and ask questions in a polite and friendly manner.
• Patience - demonstrate patience and empathy, conveying information calmly and clearly.
• Organisation - ability to multitask, clearly find documentation and keep a tidy workspace.
• Technical - confident in using and guiding students on different platforms including timetables, Student Services Online and KEATS.
• Information retention - you will be provided with guides and handbooks, but this can be a busy environment, so we are looking for candidates who can read and retain information so they can have this readily available for student queries. 

Research assistant required to work on a project that investigates the higher education experiences and outcomes for mixed-heritage/raced young people (18-25yrs) in London. The project is a mixed-method study consisting of quantitative data analysis of existing public survey datasets, focus groups with mixed-heritage students in London universities, sixth-forms and colleges, and semi-structured interviews with school and university staff. The study is led Dr Ayo Mansaray (School of Education, Communication and Society) with Dr Chiamaka Nwosu (King?s Business School).

The post-holder will provide research support for the qualitative elements of the project, including tasks such as: recruitment and arrangement of student and staff interviews, contributing to the drafting of qualitative interview topic guides, conducting student focus groups and one-to-one staff interviews, data management (e.g. cataloguing data files, sending files for transcription etc.), data analysis, and report writing. The RA will also provide ad hoc administrative support to the project team. The RA will be expected to attend in-person project meetings with funders in London.

BA and MA/MSC in a Social Science/Arts & Humanities discipline, undertaking a doctorate.

Experience of MS Teams, and MS office suite (e.g. Word etc.),  and knowledge of bibliographic software (e.g. Endnote) and qualitative data analysis software (e.g. Nvivo). 

Interest in the experiences of racialised groups in the education system and/or social justice in education. 

Understanding of research design and project management. Good understanding of qualitative methodologies, specifically prior experience of focus group or individual interviewing. 

Good communication, organisational and interpersonal skills. 

Ability to travel across London to attend meetings and conduct interviews. 

We are looking for an enthusiastic technician to join our team of scientists and clinicians to develop bone marrow organoids and investigate the interaction between malignant cells and the immune system. The successful candidate will work with fresh and frozen peripheral blood and bone marrow samples from healthy donors and patients with myeloproliferative neoplasm. 

The Research technician needs to use a variety of techniques such as flow cytometry, cell culture, imaging and other necessary techniques. 

A degree in biology or an equivalent degree in a relevant subject.

Essential:

Experience in cell culture, flow cytometry, and work with organoids.

Familiar with essential molecular techniques.