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Dear all, Please find attached a job advert for a research project funded by Unions21 on how trade unions across a range of sectors use the internet to campaign and provide services. If anyone has any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me directly. With best wishes, Nick Research Assistant for Project at London School of Economics Required Trade unions, their members and the internet Funded by Unions21 and run by the Department of Media and Communications via LSE Enterprise at the London School of Economics, this mixed method project will seek to understand how trade unions and their members use new communication technologies to engage in communication, service provision and campaigning. We are looking for a research assistant to co-ordinate this project. The individual hired for this role will be comfortable working with both survey and qualitative methods, as well as training and leading a team of interns from across the trade union movement, recruited by Unions21. Skills and requirements The project involves several methods, so the research assistant will need to feel comfortable undertaking: - Online survey design for a questionnaire to be circulated among the membership of Unions21’s affiliated unions. In addition, the research assistant will need to be able to analyze the results of this survey. - Qualitative elite in-depth interview design and thematic analysis. - Designing a website content analysis to categories the features on the websites of Union21’s affiliates. - In addition, since the in-depth interviews and website content analysis will be carried out by interns recruited by Unions21, the Research Assistant will need to feel comfortable providing training and support in these areas. - This project will also provide opportunities for co-authorship of article outputs, blog entry and knowledge exchange publications. Given the demands of the project, we are ideally looking for someone either with or working towards a PhD, and certainly with a formal grounding in social science research methods. Hours and salary You will be contracted via LSE Enterprise, for approximately three months. The total remuneration for the project will be £2600.00. We estimate the work will take somewhere around 130 hours over this period. Application process and time frame To apply for this role, please email a cover letter outlining suitability for the position (including possible referees) and a CV to [log in to unmask] Closing date for applications is Friday 16th December. We are hoping the Research Assistant will be able to start working in the new year. This project is due for completion on 31st March. — Nick Anstead Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Communication, London School of Economics and Political Science [email] [log in to unmask] [phone] 07788 413 443 [twitter] @nickanstead [website] www.nickanstead.com [office] Tower 3, 7.01.F My latest article: A Different Beast? Televised Election Debates in Parliamentary Democracies. The International Journal of Press / Politics, 21 (4), pp.508-526 (doi: 10.1177/1940161216649953). Download from LSE prints: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/66293/ -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------