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Research Associate

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Greater) (GB)
Closing date
30 Sep 2024
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This 8-month project, with the potential for a 6-month extension, aims to explore critical questions regarding digital transformation in manufacturing firms. Specifically, the project will investigate:

1.      The main pathways through which manufacturing firms adopt digital technologies like AI, IoT, advanced robotics, and additive manufacturing.

2.      The role of relationships with technology providers in helping these firms develop the necessary skills and knowledge for effective digital transformation.

3.      The processes by which manufacturing firms and their technology partners co-adapt to achieve successful digitalisation.

The post holder will work closely with the project investigators to develop an original theoretical framework and conduct data collection and analysis within the project's scope. The role also involves liaising with external organisations, such as firms, public authorities, and business associations, to organise project meetings and discuss findings. Additionally, the post holder will be invited to engage with the vibrant community of King’s Business School. This includes attending seminars and social events, connecting with other early career researchers, and interacting with the diverse expertise within the School.

Key responsibilities will include:

  • Background research: company and industry profiles; skill trends; digital technology use and development; productivity data;
  • Co-development of theoretical framework;
  • Identification and selection of the sample of manufacturing firms and their technology providers to include in the study;
  • Organisation of data collection (including securing company access, conducting interviews, collecting secondary data and documenting preliminary empirical findings);
  • Management of data in accordance with relevant KCL/ESRC data protection and ethics requirements;
  • Thematic analysis of primary and secondary data;
  • Planning of all project meetings;
  • Participating in national and international conferences and workshops to present the results of the project to academic, policy and practice audiences;
  • Drafting of briefing paper with preliminary results and journal articles for submission; and
  • Working closely and collaboratively with the project investigators.

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.

This is a full time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract for 8 months (with a possibility for a 6 month extension).

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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