Research Associate
- Employer
- KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
- Location
- Denmark Hill Campus, King's College London
- Salary
- £44,105 - £46,421 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance
- Closing date
- 17 Feb 2025
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- Academic Discipline
- Psychology, Social Sciences
- Job Type
- Research Related, Research Associate
- Contract Type
- Fixed Term
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
About us:
We would like to appoint a Post-doctoral Researcher to play a key role within our Policy Research Unit (PRU) in Addictions. The PRU has been commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care for England, funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research.
Our aim is to inform policymaking relating to alcohol, tobacco and nicotine, illicit drugs, and gambling and we are a collaboration of 10 UK universities led from the Addictions Department at King’s College London (KCL), the University of Sheffield’s Alcohol Research Group and the University of Glasgow’s Gambling Glasgow Research Centre. Research conducted within the PRU draws on a range of quantitative and qualitative research methods, and incorporates different disciplinary perspectives including public health, epidemiology, psychology, health economics, operational research and psychiatry.
You will be based at King’s College London and work closely with Prof Leonie Brose in the Nicotine Research Group to develop and deliver the aspects of the PRU related to nicotine and tobacco policy at a very exciting time in the field. Led by Professor Ann McNeill (PRU Co-Director), the Nicotine Research Group is a friendly and vibrant part of the Addictions Department at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London.
About the role:
The PRU focuses on research that relates to public policy and practice and, especially, research that can play an important role in guiding future policymaking.
You will be part of a team of pre- and post-doctoral researchers working with colleagues at King’s, Sheffield and Glasgow, as well as our wider network of Co-Investigators and Collaborators across other UK universities. You may also collaborate with clinical groups and service providers, commissioners and policymakers across the UK. As a member of the PRU you will also benefit from a dedicated training fund and membership of the Addictions PRU Academy, which will provide training and career development opportunities to early career researchers and other collaborators in the PRU.
You will take a leading role in the planning and conduct of assigned research individually or jointly to meet PRU deliverables in nicotine and potentially other areas of the PRU.
This will include research development work such as questionnaire design, preparing applications for research ethics approval, training of relevant colleagues, ensuring compliance with research governance, recruitment of participants.
You will document research output including analysis and interpretation of all data, maintaining records and databases, drafting technical/progress reports and papers as appropriate.
In this role you will communicate and collaborate effectively with colleagues, the wider academic and policy community and patient and public involvement representatives. As we are working on a range of projects simultaneously, you will be reliable and efficient and have good organisational skills.
This is a full time post; job shares and part-time appointments will also be considered. You will be offered a fixed term contract until March 2028.
About you:
To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:
Essential criteria
1. A good undergraduate degree or Master’s degree in a related area
2. A PhD (or evidence of equivalence) in a relevant discipline and/or topic area*
3. Understanding of addiction problems as experienced by individuals and communities as well as by policymakers and the general public
4. Understanding of research related to alcohol, tobacco or nicotine, other drugs or gambling (which could be public health-oriented rather than focused on addiction)
5. Proven ability to deliver quality outputs in a timely and efficient manner. This should include publication in peer review journals appropriate to your career stage
6. Ability to communicate effectively in oral, written and presentation modes to a wide range of audiences, including policymakers and practitioners
7. Understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion, and of the distortions that can be associated with stigma and discrimination
8. Ability to work effectively across projects and teams
Desirable criteria
1. Experience of conducting research into public policy and/or related to alcohol, tobacco or nicotine, other drugs or gambling
2. Experience of research covering quantitative methods
3. Experience of research covering qualitative methods
4. Experience of systematic review methods
5. Experience of working in multidisciplinary teams and collaborating with researchers at other institutions
Downloading a copy of our Job Description
Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.
*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:
We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert.
If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.
To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’ pages.
Interviews date/s TBC.
We are able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.
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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