Research Assistant / Research Associate
- Employer
- KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
- Location
- London (Greater) (GB)
- Salary
- Grade 5, £32,676 - £37,297 per annum. Grade 6, £38,304 - £39,345 per annum (pro-rata) incl. LWA
- Closing date
- 6 Oct 2020
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- Academic Discipline
- Psychology, Social Sciences
- Job Type
- Research Related, Research Assistants / Officers, Research Associate
- Contract Type
- Fixed Term
- Hours
- Part Time
Job Details
We have an exciting and challenging opportunity for a Research Assistant/Associate (depending on qualifications and experience) to contribute to and oversee an innovative and multi-disciplinary 4-year research project focused on supporting the positive mental health of Kenyan and Mozambican adolescents during pregnancy and early motherhood. Using a human-centred, systems-thinking approach, we will partner with adolescents, their families and other key stakeholders to develop and pilot test mental health interventions. Our goal is to design effective, scalable and sustainable interventions aligned with young women’s needs and priorities.
The project is funded through a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship held by Dr Tatiana Salisbury. The successful candidate will work directly with Dr Salisbury and be responsible for contributing to the design of research activities, and overseeing project set-up, implementation and knowledge exchange activities. They will work closely with research, design, government and community partners in the UK, Kenya and Mozambique.
The post is based within the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London but will require occasional travel for meetings in Europe and Africa. While in post you will be supported to engage in research training and career development activities and take advantage of other opportunities within the department and across the College.
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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- KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
- Telephone
- +(44)02078365454
- Location
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