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SalaryResearch Assistant
Grade UE06: (£17.20 - £19.74 per hour depending on experience)
College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science / School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Fixed-term, Part-time: Guaranteed Hours (113 GH hours)
The Psychology Department in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is seeking a part time Research Assistant on a fixed term, guaranteed hours contract for 113 hours until 31 st of July 2024. This post is expected to commence in February 2024.
The Opportunity:
We are recruiting a Research Assistant to work with Prof Sue Widdicombe, Dr Cristina Marinho and Dr Rahul Sambaraju on a project, ‘Public Engagement with Climate News’. Overall, it is concerned with public engagement in climate change news through social media in four countries: UK, India, Portugal, and Brazil. The pilot study will test feasibility by identifying a number of suitable climate change news reports on popular TV channels as targets of engagement.
Your skills and attributes for success:
- Undergraduate or MSc degree in a social science, Linguistics, or a language discipline.
- Fluency in written and spoken Portuguese and English.
- Proven ability to translate written data from Portuguese to English.
- Knowledge of and interest in climate change news.
- Familiarity with a variety of social media platforms (e.g. X, Facebook, Instagram).
- Be reliable, consistent, a good worker and a good communicator.
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As a valued member of our team you can expect:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme , staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more.
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The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
PPLS welcomes applications from candidates belonging to groups that have been traditionally underrepresented in the department, including, but not limited to, women and ethnic minorities.
Interviews are anticipated to take place in late January 2024, we endeavour to give successful candidates 2 weeks’ notice of interview dates.
Application information:
We ask you to include a current CV and cover letter with names of three referees who may be contacted at a later date (please note if you do not wish for anyone to be contacted until after an offer has been made).
More information on how to submit your application can be found here .
If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages. The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role.
The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. They will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
