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King?s Culture are looking for a student to do a small amount of transcription work and collate some survey data, to help us with the evaluation of our Lost & Found season of events, which have taken place across the 2024-25 academic year.
The work involves typing up hand-written reflections cards from various events, and separating out attendance numbers and survey data for individual events. In addition, pulling out useful quotes from the responses that we can use in our wider evaluation report. 
We anticipate the work will take approximately 5 hours in total, plus an hour paid induction time, and can be done flexibly and remotely across June ? July as is convenient. 
The hourly rate for the role is ?14.88.
 

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The survey data is in Excel and the data will be pulled together into a Word document, so some familiarity with both Excel and Word will be expected. Previous experience of transcription or processing data is preferable. 

We are seeking a temporary Research Assistant to support a project led by Jo Underwood and The Policy Institute at King?s College London over the summer of 2025. The role will focus on drafting an initial report summarising preliminary findings from research conducted in 2024?25.

Project Overview:

• The research examines how London?s local authorities process in-person homelessness applications.
• FOI requests were submitted to all London boroughs by Jo and King?s Legal Clinic.
• Additional qualitative research has included stakeholder interviews and a roundtable exploring the impact of closed in-person referrals on A&E departments.

Research Experience 

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct a short literature review on the impact of ?closed-door? local authority practices on:
  • People experiencing homelessness
  • A&E and emergency healthcare services
• Review and quality-check existing data (FOIs, interviews, roundtable notes)
• Draft a short-format report and/or public-facing outputs (e.g., blog posts, opinion pieces) to support future funding efforts

The King's Festival of Artificial Intelligence is returning between Tuesday 20 and Saturday 24 May 2025, with a series of public events, including lectures, workshops and demonstrations, exploring artificial intelligence with researchers from across King's. The festival will take place across multiple venues: the Strand Campus, Science Gallery London, Guys Campus, and the London Institute of Healthcare Engineering. 

In order to support with the smooth running of the festival, the KIAI is looking for up to ten event assistants. Event assistants will be responsible for supporting the KIAI team and lead event assistants to register attendees for events, support attendees to navigate King?s, and support event deliverers with any requirements during events. Interviews for the position will be held online on 6th and 7th May (with some flexibility to work around candidates? other commitments). 

Successful candidates will ideally be expected to work on at least two days between 20 and 24 May. Hours of work are varied but shifts will take place between the hours of 9am and 9pm each day. Event assistants may be required to attend a compulsory paid briefing/training session before their first shift.

Key responsibilities

Your responsibilities will vary but in general you may be expected to:

• Greet and register attendees to festival events including staffing the registration desks at the entrance to festival venues.
• Support attendees to navigate King?s including finding the correct venues for their events and make use of King?s facilities, including staffing the navigation desk outside the Great Hall. 
• Support event organisers to distribute materials at the beginning or during an event and collect these at the end. 
• Support with Q&As during events, for e.g. through use of microphones. 
• Support attendees to complete evaluation forms at the end of events (if required). 
• Report any issues that cannot be resolved immediately to a member of the KIAI team or a Lead Event Assistant.
• For Family Zone event assistants: support families attending the event, signposting to available facilities and assist in managing any queues for demos.
• This list is not exhaustive and event assistants may be asked to undertake reasonable duties in line with the role to ensure the smooth-running of the festival. 

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Essential: experience of supporting events including but not limited to academic seminars, conferences, university open days, and outreach events.

Essential: strong communication skills, and willingness to communicate with the general public. 

Essential: excellent organisation and time management skills with the ability to multitask. 

Desirable: interest in data science and/or AI OR public engagement opportunities. 

Desirable: experience of communicating and/or working with young people (under 18).

Desirable: first aid trained.

Desirable: fire marshall trained. 

Desirable: DBS checked.