Post Doctoral Research Associate in Human-Centred Privacy & Security (FTE Flexible)
- Employer
- KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
- Location
- London (Greater) (GB)
- Closing date
- 15 Oct 2024
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- Job Type
- Research Related, Research Associate
- Contract Type
- Fixed Term
- Hours
- Full Time, Part Time
Job Details
The Department of Informatics is looking to appoint a Postdoctoral Researcher to work on a project on user experiences of online harms and their mitigation strategies, funded by the EPSRC:
The successful candidate will join King’s College London to work with Dr. Kovila Coopamootoo, https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/kovila-coopamootoo, on the EPSRC-funded project “AGENCY” ( https://agencyresearch.net). The candidate will be working at the intersection of (1) privacy and security and (2) human-computer interation or sociology.
The project will run for six months starting from the 1st of January 2024 and will investigate a particular technology-enabled online harm context ( https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/online-harms-white-paper/online-harms-white-paper), such as in relation to Intimate Health Care, Femtech or Intimate Image Sharing. It will focus on a particular user community or population, to examine the socio-technical factors and interaction dynamics that contribute to complex harm situations or to mitigating harms.
Contact Dr. Kovila Coopamootoo at kovila.coopamootoo@kcl.ac.uk for an informal conversation about the role.
This post will be offered on a fixed-term contract either for 6 months from 1st January 2024 to 30th June 2024 at 100% FTE OR from the 1st January 2024 to 31 December 2024 at 50% FTE). Other FTEs can be agreed by prior discussion.
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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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