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Research Assistant in Economics - Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction

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1079314


UCL


01/06/2024


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Part-time; variable per week but 23 hours in total (3-4 hours per week on average)


Not Applicable

Pay


£19.62


£3.67

Description

Role

Unitemps are recruiting for a Research Assistant in Economics for the Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction. This role is for a June 1st start date and has a projected end date of July 19th 2024. This a part-time role with hours per week varying but 23 hours in total across the whole working period (average 3-4 hours per week). Payment is set at £19.62 + holiday pay per hour. This role will be UCL home based working (with regular meetings requiring attendance).

UCL Insitute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR), UCL Institute for Global Health (IGH) and Peking University China (PKU) are collaborating on a project to investigate the effectiveness of China’s heatwave adaptation policies with funding received from the UCL-PKU Global Health Funding call. 

You will be working with Dr. Rozana Himaz (IRDR), Dr. Francesco Salustri (IGH) and Prof. Jolene Skordis (IGH).

Duties and responsibilities

We are seeking an enthusiastic Research Assistant who can conduct a rapid literature review based on economics and related literature on high temperature policies and their effectiveness at mitigating health-risks.   
 
If you would like to be involved as a research assistant on a casual, hourly basis, please apply with your CV and 100 words on why you would like to take on the role by 30 April 2024.

Skills and experience

  • A PhD student (or post-graduate student with equivalent research experience) with a background in economics or related discipline;
  • Evidence of conducting rapid literature reviews (desirable); 
  • Keen interest in climate change and/or heatwave adaptation policies (desirable).

 

Location
UCL; home based working (with regular online meetings attendance required)

Additional information

This job will close for applications at 11.59pm on Tuesday April 30th. Interviews will be held shortly after (May 7th).

*Please note to be eligible to work within this role, you must have the right to work in the UK, be physically based in the UK and be able to travel to our London based office for a RTW check (if required).

*If you have a contract of employment with UCL, you are not able to work through UCL Unitemps at the same time.

Unitemps reserves the right to close this advert for applications prior to the date specified above, if a high volume of suitable applications are received.

Unitemps payroll is monthly, one month in arrears, please see the payroll dates here.

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