Postdoctoral Research Associate in Refugee Family Reunion

Employer: KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location: London (Greater) (GB)
Closing date: 8 Dec 2024

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Job Type: Research Related, Research Associate
Contract Type: Fixed Term
Hours: Part Time

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King’s Legal Clinic is seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Associate to carry out research as part of the Refugee Family Reunion (RFR) project. The RFR project aims to improve the experience of refugee families seeking sanctuary to the UK through legal representation, research, policy, and education. Funded by One King’s Impact Fund, King’s Legal Clinic is leading a network of interdisciplinary partners from across and beyond King’s, including the King’s Sanctuary Programme, DNA analysis@King’s and Refugee Legal Support.

The project aims to make the UK immigration system fairer and more compassionate through:

Establishing a pilot Clinic providing legal and DNA testing assistance to refugees in the UK
Conducting research to assess UK immigration law and policy
Conducting research to improve the use of DNA evidence.

The successful candidate will work with the Directors of King’s Legal Clinic and the Sanctuary Programme and partners, including Refugee Legal Support, DNA Analysis @King’s and wider stakeholders in the project.

The research associate’s main responsibilities will include, the development of research evaluating:

The definition and construction of family in the UK RFR legal framework through an interdisciplinary lens
The efficacy and fairness of Home Office policy and practice in respect of evidential requirements in RFR cases; and
Scoping of research on safe pathways to sanctuary in the UK.

The successful candidate will also be supported and expected to contribute to project-related engagement activities, including event organisation, conference and workshop participation, presentation of findings, and writing publications.

We are looking for a candidate with knowledge and previous experience of:

Research and report writing on issues relating to Refugee law and/or UK immigration law; and
Quantitative and qualitative research methods.
Some knowledge in one or more of the following fields; comparative jurisdictions, anthropology, political sociology and human geography.

This is a part time post for 21 hours per week (3 days) on a fixed term contract from 6 January 2025 until 6 July 2025, with the possibility of a further short extension of the contract.

The Postdoctoral Research Associate will be based at the Strand Campus, King’s College London, able to work in a hybrid model. The post will involve travel to meetings at the Strand campus.

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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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