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Research Associate (ORACLE)

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Greater) (GB)
Salary
£38,828 - £43,239 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance 60344333
Closing date
26 Dec 2021

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Job Type
Research Related
Contract Type
Fixed Term
Hours
Full Time

Job Details

Job description

Join a world-class research team working to improve child health. The Child Health Services and Policy Research Group, led by Ingrid Wolfe in the KCL Department of Women & Children's Health, is offering an opportunity for a talented post-doctoral Research Associate.  

As a member of the OveRcoming Adverse ChiLdhood Experiences (ORACLE) team, the focus of this role is to understand the lived experiences, risks, assets, and scope of interventions for children, young people, and families experiencing adversity. This will involve conducting and analysing in-depth interviews with families and stakeholders; producing a systems map of risks and assets; leading PPIE sessions and stakeholder workshops; working with other team members to impact policy in this field. 

The Research Associate will have relevant social research methods experience, and will work with a multidisciplinary team at KCL and across the ORACLE partner organizations. A background or interest in child or family health, child social care, social work, parental mental health issues, substance misuse or domestic abuse is preferred but not essential.  

 

This post will be offered on an a fixed-term contract for 12 months 

This is a full-time post.

 

Key responsibilities

• The Research Associate will undertake in-depth interviews with families and stakeholders. They will analyse interview data to provide rich descriptions of the lived experiences of vulnerable children and young people (CYP) and their families in relation to risks, adverse outcomes, and positive experiences of change. We will focus on identifying what matters most to the people directly involved.  

• The post holder will produce a detailed conceptual and relational systems map of risks and assets, including structural, socio-economic, life-stage and relational determinants of outcomes for CYP. This map will demonstrate the direction and strength of links between interconnected components. 

• The post holder will contribute to the design and running of stakeholder workshops as the team seeks to develop interventions to reduce risk and improve outcomes among children and young people exposed to family adversity and related risks. 

• The Research Associate will take a lead in running the project from KCL, including: organising and running PPIE groups; organising meetings and giving presentations on behalf of the team; and engaging with the King’s Policy Institute to help develop policy-related outputs and impact. 

 

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.  

Skills, knowledge, and experience 

Essential criteria

• PhD awarded or near completion in Public Health, Social Work, or related discipline, ideally with a focus on children. 

• Relevant research methods, including qualitative interview analysis. 

• Planning, conducting, and analysing qualitative interviews, including with children and young people, and ideally addressing sensitive topics. 

• Excellent organisational, interpersonal, and written and verbal communication skills. 

• Appropriate professional conduct, maintaining confidentiality where required, and sensitivity to others. 

• Reliability and flexibility. 

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of the National Health Service and other public services for children and families. 

• Systems mapping. 

• Systematic literature review. 

• Disseminating research findings through publications and presentations. 

• Background or interest in working in child or family health, child social care, social work, parental mental health issues, substance misuse or domestic abuse. 

 

* Please note that this is a PhD level role but candidates who have submitted their thesis and are awaiting award of their PhDs will be considered. In these circumstances the appointment will be made at Grade 5, spine point 30 with the title of Research Assistant. Upon confirmation of the award of the PhD, the job title will become Research Associate and the salary will increase to Grade 6. 

Further information

This post is subject to Disclosure and Barring Service and Occupational Health clearance. 

 

Qualitative, children, adversity  

Company

King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.

King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.

King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.

King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.

King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.

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