Applications are invited for a 1 year Research Assistant position to work on the Wellcome-funded SHARE project (Environmentally Sustainable Health Research) at the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London. The SHARE project is a large multi-national project applying a critical, but constructive, lens to the tools developed to encourage and enable more environmentally sustainable health research.  The project is being jointly led by Dr Gabrielle Samuel (King’s College London) and Dr Federica Lucivero (University of Oxford), with a research team in India, Kenya, Ghana and Brazil. 

The successful applicant will be working with Dr Gabrielle Samuel and Ms Aida Hassan. 

 

The successful applicant will assist with the UK element of the SHARE project, which involves conducting, analysing and publishing the findings of interviews with UK health researchers about their experiences of using tools designed to reduce the environmental harms associated with health research. 

 

The successful applicant must be able to work independently and collaboratively within a diverse broader research team.

 

The project will be based within the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, which is an interdisciplinary community whose internationally-recognised expertise, consultancy work and contributions to policy development are utilised by a myriad of organisations and networks. It is ranked within the top 10 sociology departments in the UK.

 

For more details on the project, or questions about the application, please contact gabrielle.samuel@kcl.ac.uk

 

This is a flexible post of between 2-4 days a week (for between 12-24 months, depending on the days/week you work), and you will be offered​ a fixed term​ contract until  31/01/27

 

Research staff at King’s are entitled to at least 10 days per year (pro-rata) for professional development. This entitlement, from the Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers, applies to Postdocs, Research Assistants, Research and Teaching Technicians, Teaching Fellows and AEP equivalent up to and including grade 7. Visit the Centre for Research Staff Development for more information.