Research Assistant

City St George’s, University of London is the University of business, practice and the professions and brings together the expertise and excellence of City, University of London and St George’s, University of London into one institution.

The combined university is one of the largest suppliers of the health workforce in the capital, as well as one of the largest higher education destinations for London students.

Combining a breadth of disciplines across health, business, law, creativity, communications, science and technology, we are creating a ‘health powerhouse’ for students, researchers, the NHS and partners in uniting a world-leading specialist health university. We are now one of the UK’s largest health educators, where staff and students have access to an expanded team of brilliant academic and professional services colleagues, combined resources and facilities and more interdisciplinary opportunities.

The merger creates opportunities to generate significant change in the world of healthcare including changes to treatment, population health monitoring, workforce development and leadership, policy, and advocacy.

Background

The Violence and Society (VAS) Centre is a dynamic and growing interdisciplinary research centre at City St Georges. Our research is about violence and abuse, evidencing harms and supporting ways to reduce violence and resulting health inequalities. Our main funding is a 5-year UKRI Consortium grant, Violence, Health and Society Consortium (VISION) comprises ten universities, 30 researchers and multiple external partnerships.

Responsibilities

This post is to contribute to an aspect of VISION work focused on global sources of evidence to understand violence reduction in settings around the world where there has been major conflict or war. This project is about identifying evidence on effective interventions to reduce violence and the impact of violence once an overt conflict/war has stopped, or an accord has been reached between opposing forces.

The objective is a scoping review of the relevant literature spanning disciplines including international politics, public health, and clinical trauma research. This will involve reviewing relevant literature including peer-reviewed journal articles, books, and grey literature, with the goal of identifying effective interventions and evidence gaps that can inform future research.

Person Specification

The successful candidate will be studying for a relevant degree (psychology, criminology, sociology, law, health or other) and have knowledge of research on violence.

They will have demonstrable research experience in ethnicity, migration, trauma or a related area, and will have knowledge of scoping review methodologies and experience of conducting a scoping review. They will have the ability to synthesise and analyse large amounts of information quickly and communicate this effectively in writing.

Additional Information

Closing date: 2nd October 2024 at 11:59pm.

City St George’s offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

City St George’s, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors.

We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

City St George’s operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.

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