Teaching Assistant

This role is open to students studying at King?s College London. 

Research assistants will be managed by staff from the Department of Chemistry (Dr Helen Coulshed), Bioscience Education (Dr Mandeep Gill Sagoo and Dr Andrea Cockett), King?s Academy (Dr Martin Compton), and King?s Foundations (Jessica Cooper and Robin Yu).  

The research project aims to improve feedback engagement by students through the creation of 10 short, AI-generated, interactive videos, each 5-7 minutes long.  

Main duties and responsibilities: 

To work with staff and 2 other research associates to: 

•  Review current literature on feedback literacy related to UK Higher Education. 
• Co-create a storyboard for <10 short videos outlining key themes identified in the feedback literacy literature review. Advertise the opportunity to participate in research via focus group participation. 
• Coordinate and facilitate focus groups and interviews with students. 
• Analyse data collected and manage data in accordance with GDPR guidelines. 
• Discuss data collection and analysis issues with the Research team.  
• Adapt multimedia output, including AI-generated outputs, created based on focus group and interview feedback. 
• Collaborate with the Academic Skills team when finalising the storyboards  
• Work with King?s Digital to add resources to Academic Skills asynchronous resources and organise a second set of focus groups to beta test videos/resources. 
• Present findings to the research team and key university stakeholders. 
• Undertake any other reasonable duties as required by the team. 
• Engage in training and professional development activities related to the project. 

The role is fractional (0.1 FTE, 4hours/week, December-July 2025). Hours of work will predominantly be scheduled remotely between Monday-Friday, 09.00-17.00 with some on campus meetings as needed and with prior agreement. There will be flexibility in how your hours are spread and you will be expected to manage your own workload depending on activity. 

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Experience/Skills required 

1. Strong interpersonal skills.  
2. Ability to build relationships with a wide range of people from different backgrounds. 
3. Experience in managing own workload, planning, and organising projects or activities independently. 
4. Excellent communication skills and ability to present ideas. 
5. Ability to adhere to GDPR and ethical guidelines and to follow data storage security protocols. 

The desirable criteria for the role are: 

D1. Experience of literature searching. 

D2. Experience of reference management software. 

D3. Knowledge and experience of qualitative data analysis  

D4. Experience of audio recording and transcription software. 

D5. Experience of editing videos. 

Grant writing for large creative health grant.  

PhD or equivalent 

Five plus years in creative health sector 

Recruitment of Research Assistant

(0.2FTE for 5 weeks-with flexibility)

Audit & Evaluation of written assessment feedback for BSc midwifery students 

Who we are looking for

Are you currently registered as a Doctoral student at King?s?

Do you have experience in qualitative research?

If the answer to these questions is yes- we are looking for you!

Context of the post

We are looking to appoint a current registered Doctoral student at King's College London to work with a multidisciplinary team from the department of Midwifery and King?s Academy on a project funded by the College Education Fund looking to undertake an audit and evaluation of written assessment feedback for BSc Midwifery students. Looking at the student experience of assessment, this project will design an audit tool to undertake review of written assessment feedback given to students after summative assessment submission for students on the BSc Midwifery curriculum.

The project will focus on students where there has been evidence of an attainment gap in higher education (such as students from a minoritised ethnic group and those with  a SpLD) but will be of whole-cohort benefit. There will be 2 workstreams for the project;

1. Literature review, and development of the audit tool as part of a codesign process with students and educators
2. An audit of feedback on global assessment across the midwifery programme

Typical paid duties will include:

• Assisting in building the evidence base for the project, by reviewing the literature on assessment feedback practices in higher education pre-registration healthcare programmes.
• Writing up findings into a literature review

 Eligibility, hours and pay

To apply, you need to be a current registered Doctoral student at King's College London. 

We expect the role to run November 2024-Feb 2025, however there should be flexibility to allow for project needs to be met. Work is not expected to go beyond Feb 2025.

This post will be paid at a Band 5 salary on a weekly basis. It is anticipated that the hours will be on average 7-7.5 per week (some weeks may be slightly more, some less).

You will be hired on a King's Talent Bank hourly paid contract, and they will undertake a Right to Work check. You will need to ensure that taking on this role is not in breach of King's policies or any funding or immigration conditions.

Support provided

You will be expected to work autonomously, but will have support, including:

• A project induction including from a member of the study team.
• The Research Assistant will have one-to-one mentoring meetings with one of the project leads (depending on requirements of the work) 

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Registered Doctoral student at KCL with the Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care

Core skills, knowledge and experience required

(E-essential, D-desirable)

• Experience in qualitative data collection, analysis and write up (E)
• Understanding of undertaking academic literature review (E)
• Interest in / knowledge and understanding of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion and diverse student needs (E)