The Research Assistant will join the newly launched Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW), within the School of Security Studies, King’s College London. In partnership with the Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham, CRSW will systematically investigate the slavery–war nexus across history and into the future, using novel interdisciplinary methods that span the social sciences, humanities, and data sciences. By reshaping knowledge and creating innovative tools and early warning systems, CRSW aims to support the global goal of eliminating forced labour, modern slavery, and human trafficking.

The Research Assistant will support the research strand ‘Forecasting Slavery in War’. They will support innovative strategic foresight activities and contemporary conflict analysis, focusing upon a wide range of political, military, technological and humanitarian issues. Key responsibilities include: conducting literature reviews, database searches, and case study reports; conducting research on new methods and technologies within foresight and futures research; creating and maintaining datasets in Excel; helping to design and facilitate strategic foresight workshops; contributing to the development of future-crafting methods and activities; creating informative and/or visually compelling materials for workshops and other research activities; contributing to reports and other written outputs; helping to update websites and contribute to communications outputs; and actively participating as a member of the research team.

 

This is a full time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered a three-year fixed term contract.