Researcher

expired

Current King's UG student 

expired

In this role you will be working on a project writing a toolkit on gender quotas, reserved seating and other mechanisms to introduce more women into parliaments for an international parliamentary organisation.

It will involve:

• exploring and summarising existing academic literature, reports and findings from other international institutions and evidence on gender quotas and other equality mechanisms;
• making simple graphs and charts using publicly available data to show the impact of quotas;
• finding evidence and experiences of MPs from countries where quotas and other mechanisms have been introduced on how they came about, and difficulties with them; and writing up findings into a report and toolkit aimed at a non-academic audience.

There is a total of 105 hours of work available for this role.

Masters degree in Public Policy, Politics or a similar subject

Necessary

• Experience of conducting a literature review.
• Experience writing for non-academic audiences.
• Understanding of parliamentary systems.
• Ability to making charts on Excel.
• Ability to use Word.
• Ability to write to speed.

Desirable

• Experience conducting elite interviews.
• Understanding of gender equality mechanisms.

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

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

analytics, R, Python & QGIS.

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

analytics, R, Python & QGIS.