[ecrea] Research assistant required: trade unions and the internet

*_Research Assistant for Project at London School of Economics Required_*

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*_Trade unions, their members and the internet_*

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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*

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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*

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To apply for this role, please email a cover letter outlining 
suitability for the position (including possible referees) and a CV to 
(n.m.anstead /at/ lse.ac.uk).

Closing date for applications is Friday 16^th December. We are hoping 
the Research Assistant will be able to start working in the new year. 
This project is due for completion on 31^st March.

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