Research Associate (Post-Doctoral Researcher)

Job Description

The Role

The Department of International Politics is inviting applications for a position as Research Associate to conduct research as part of the ESRC-funded Secondary Data Analysis project “The Unarmed Civilian Protection in South Sudan Dataset”.

The Research Associate will work closely with Project Lead Prof Berit Bliesemann de Guevara and Visiting Researcher Dr Luke Abbs on turning project partner Nonviolent Peaceforce’s existing rich text data into a gold-standard numerical dataset suitable for quantitative analysis. Tasks include creating a codebook, coding a major part of the primary incident data, and analysing the data. The Research Associate will co-author all research outputs, participate in the training of the project partner’s staff, and have the opportunity to present preliminary project findings at relevant conferences.

The successful candidate will be well versed in quantitative research...