Research Assistant United Kingdom
Job description
Full time (36.5 hours per week) Fixed term contract for 2 years.
The Research Assistant will work on the following two Wellcome Trust funded projects, working closely with Professor Sharifah Sekalala, to provide research and administrative for the day to day running of the projects, data collection, analysis and the dissemination of outputs:
Summary of Project “There is no app for that: Regulating the migration of health apps in Sub Saharan Africa”.
The project seeks to analyse the regulation of health apps in Uganda, Kenya and South Africa. The project team will evaluate the data protection regimes and engage with key stakeholders in these countries to establish the extent to which they protect their citizens’ health data, especially in cross-border mHealth activities.
The Research Assistant will work with Professor Sekalala, to manage the project, but will also engage with research dealing with conceptual and empirical understandings of the regulation of digital health apps in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
Summary of Project “After the end: interdisciplinary approaches to lived experiences in the aftermaths of diseases, disasters and drugs in global health”.
This project will provide an account of the moral and ethical obligations and responsibilities of global health to prioritise broader ideas of temporal legitimacy and analyse how ideas of reparative justice should be managed by relevant global health institutions in the aftermath of crises.
The Research Assistant will work with Professor Sekalala, exploring the ways in which law and global health institutions construct the end of a crisis, and how to use reparative justice for greater pandemic preparedness.
We are looking for a highly motivated Research Assistant to support these two projects, and who will ideally be someone with a Global Health Law, Sociolegal Studies, International Relations or Medical Humanities background, but we would be willing to consider other candidates if they have the requisite experience.
Applicants should include an independent piece of academic writing as an attachment to their application which could either be a journal article, a chapter of a thesis or a dissertation.
You will join a research team who enjoy working together in a collegiate, supportive, and developmental environment. You will have the opportunity to present at meetings and conferences, and to contribute to journal articles and other research outputs. We foresee this role as a supportive role to enable the successful candidate to transition into a funded PhD, faculty position, or equivalent research policy role.
For informal inquiries, please contact Prof Sharifah Sekalala: [email protected].
Interviews will be held virtually on Teams in week commencing 3rd July. Shortlisted candidates will be expected to prepare a ten-minute presentation of how their skills and experiences could support these two projects.
Job Description
JOB PURPOSE
To provide research and administration for the day to day running of two Wellcome Trust funded projects: ‘There is no app for that: Regulating the migration of health apps in Sub Saharan Africa,’ and ‘After the end: interdisciplinary approaches to lived experiences in the aftermaths of diseases, disasters and drugs in global health’, including, data collection and analysis, dissemination of outputs, monitoring budgets and events’ organisation.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Help establish a sound research base within the projects in order to assist the development and achievement of research objectives.
2. Contribute to well-planned and systematic literature searches and reviews.
3. Contribute to managing research participant recruitment, quantitative and qualitative data collection, coding and analysis.
4. Keep accurate and up-to-date records of activities relating to the research work and manage submissions from the entire project team.
5. Extract relevant information from literature and empirical findings and summarise/synthesise into policy reports.
6. Contribute to writing up research work for academic outputs.
7. Contribute towards conference presentations and papers.
8. Continually update own knowledge and understanding in field or specialism.
9. Contribute to the development of funding proposals to generate follow on funding both internally and externally to support the projects.
10. Implement and manage accurate, timely budgetary systems for effective financial monitoring of the projects’ operating budgets.
11. Organise events on behalf of the projects.
12. Assist the PI with other research and administrative tasks as required.
About Warwick Law School
Founded in 1968, now with over 1100 students and 70 full-time academic staff, we have evolved into one of the leading Law Schools in the UK. We emphasise the importance of innovative and high-quality teaching within a broad and contextual curriculum. Our teaching standards and research quality have received high ratings in both NSS and REF results (ranked 8th overall in 2022). The quality of our teaching has been recognised with two National Teaching Fellowships and several Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence. We maintain a strong research culture with several active research centres.
The Law School is supported by a dedicated Professional Services team of 19 staff, whose areas of expertise include student services, research, academic technology, outreach, human resources, marketing and communications, finance, events delivery, and governance.
Diversity
One of the strengths of Warwick Law School is the diversity of the Law School Community. Our talented staff come from many different countries and backgrounds. We are committed to imbedding principles of equality, diversity and inclusion in all everyday practices of Warwick Law School.
Over a quarter of our undergraduate students are international students with a further 14% coming from EU countries. The globally diverse nature of our student body is even more pronounced at postgraduate level, where more than half of our LLM and PhD students are international students with a further 12% from EU countries. 64% of our undergraduate students identify as BAME. At postgraduate level, 68% of our taught postgraduate students and 57% of our PhD students identify as BAME. Warwick Law School values widening participation, in 2021/22, 31% of our first-year undergraduate students came to us with a contextual offer. We are proud to be a leading department in the University in this area.
Athena SWAN Bronze Award
At Warwick Law School we are committed to supporting staff to achieve their potential. The School currently holds the Athena SWAN Bronze Award and the University of Warwick holds an Institutional Silver Award: a national initiative recognising the advancement of gender equality, representation, progression, and success for all in academia. We are supportive of staff with caring responsibilities, with generous carers’/maternity/paternity/adoption/parental leave policies, onsite childcare facilities, and a childcare vouchers scheme. We strongly endorse the principles of Athena SWAN, including a supportive and flexible working environment, with commitment from all levels of the organisation in promoting gender equity.
For further information about the University of Warwick, please read our University Further Particulars.
For further information about the department, please visit the departmental website.
The University of Warwick is one of the six founder institutions of the EUTOPIA European University alliance, whose aim is to become by 2025 an open, multicultural, confederated operation of connected campuses.
Right to work in the UK
If you do not yet have the right to work in the UK and/or are seeking sponsorship for a Skilled Worker visa in the UK points-based immigration system please click on this link which contains further information about obtaining right to work in the UK and details about eligibility for sponsorship for a Skilled Worker Visa.
Please refer to this link for a full list of the benefits here.
