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To review materials provided to international students to help them apply visas. 

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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.

This role, open to current PhD students, will support a collaboration between King's College London and TASO. You will join UniSMaRT, the Univesrity and Student Mental Health research grouping, directed by Dr Nicola Byrom in the department of psychology. You will be working directly with TASO, providing support to the project manager at TASO. 

TASO is an affiliate What Works Centre, and part of the UK Government?s What Works Movement. Our vision is to eliminate equality gaps in higher education (HE). Our mission is to improve lives through evidence-informed practice. Our work focuses on the generation, synthesis and dissemination of high-quality evidence about effective practice in widening participation and student outcomes. 

We are seeking a Research Assistant for a Student Mental Health project which aims to identify existing evidence of what is working to support student mental health in the English higher education sector. The project is developing a digital toolkit to support the sector to navigate the available evidence to identify what practices might work best in their context.

The role will involve

• Reviewing the evidence for what works in student mental health
• Writing up case studies of examples of student mental health support in higher education
• Supporting the beta testing of the student mental health toolkit with key sector stakeholders
• Supporting TASO?s work with the projects? student panel that acts as an advisory group to the project

Successful candidates will have completed a Masters degree and currently be studying for a PhD. 

• Knowledge of the higher education sector in England
• Experience of conducting desk-based research
• Experience of conducting literature reviews
• Able to write up the results of research
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to write reports and present research findings to a range of audiences