I am sure that this is an exciting and innovative new project.

But it's a rather distopic future, the one in which community engagement on
health-related issues is outsourced to precariously underemployed part-time
short-term academic workers under the title "research assistants"...

Speaks a lot about the impending catastrophe of this discipline, and this
world...

Kind regards,

Mariya


On Tue, 10 Sep 2019, 18:36 Kuhlbrandt, Charlotte, <
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>
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> We are looking for a Research Assistant with a background in social
> science or humanities to work on our exciting new project, “Imagining a
> better world with new technologies: shaping utopias and dystopias in
> translational medicine”. Please spread the word. If you have any questions
> about the post, please don’t hesitate to send me an e-mail.
>
>
> https://my.corehr.com/pls/kingrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form?p_company=1&p_internal_external=E&p_display_in_irish=N&p_process_type=&p_applicant_no=&p_form_profile_detail=&p_display_apply_ind=Y&p_refresh_search=Y&p_recruitment_id=019588#
>
>
> Post title: Research Assistant in public engagement
>
> Department/Division: School of Population Health & Environmental Sciences
>
> Faculty: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
>
> Grade/salary: Grade 5, £32,100 - £36,699 per annum
> inclusive of £3,500 London Weighting Allowance per annum
>
> Hours of work: Part time (18.75 hours per week)
>
> Period of appointment: Fixed-term contract for 1 year
>
> Responsible to: Chair in Sociology of Health (Judith Green)
>
> Campus: Guy’s Campus
>
> Application Deadline: 26th September 2019
>
> Start date: October 2019
>
>
> Role purpose
>
> The School of Population Health and Environmental Sciences is seeking a
> part-time Research Assistant to assist with a one-year project entitled
> “Imagining a better world with new technologies: shaping utopias and
> dystopias in translational medicine”. The post holder will assist with the
> co-ordination of the project which looks to think critically about the
> social and political implications of technologies such as genetics,
> artificial intelligence, and robotics in health. More specifically, this
> qualitative research project will compare the futures being imagined within
> the university and research community, with the futures that seem desirable
> (or not) for young people in Lambeth and Southwark: this project draws on
> young climate change activists’ reminder that they “are the future” and
> widens the lens to strategic questions at the intersection of science,
> health and society.
>
> In order to make this comparison, this project uses the concepts of
> utopias and dystopias to engage young people in arts-facilitated
> world-making conversations about the kind of society they want to live in.
> The post-holder will help organise these arts-facilitated workshops,
> followed by three public events which engage people of all ages in the
> local community with questions about techno-futures in health. The post
> holder will also help co-ordinate a sci-fi film club and other research
> activities. This will include assisting with an initial literature review
> on imagined futures in health, ethnographic observations of these events
> and other research activities, and analysis.
>
> The post is funded by an internal seed-funding pot for King’s College
> London, which aims to bring different disciplines together across the
> university to work towards a larger research grant. The post holder will
> therefore work as part of a multi-disciplinary team spanning the social
> sciences, humanities, and sciences. Whilst they will work most closely with
> the Chair in Sociology of Health and the Research Associates (all medical
> sociologists and anthropologists), they will also be expected to
> co-ordinate meetings and events across disciplinary boundaries.
>
>
> Role profile
>
> The person appointed would have an undergraduate and Masters degree or
> equivalent in a relevant subject (i.e. at least one of these degrees should
> be in a social science or humanities subject). They would also have some
> experience of research in health or social care. They would have excellent
> organisational skills, and the ability to communicate with a range of
> partners including medical researchers, community centres, schools, and
> young people. They would demonstrate the ability to think critically and
> may even have a prior interest in the intersection of technology and health.
>
>
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