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 ‘(Re)conceptualising Slavery in War’, working for the KCL co-lead of the strand. They will support conceptual research on the relationship between slavery and war across history and different academic disciplines. The research assistant will be part of a cohort of early career researchers working collaboratively to deliver a range of research outputs and events across the four Centre research strands.

 

Key responsibilities include: conducting research, conducting literature reviews, database searches, summarising sources, and case study reports; helping to design and facilitate expert workshops and professional events; creating informative and/or visually compelling materials for workshops and other research activities; contributing to reports and other written outputs; contributing  to communications outputs; coordinating work within the research strand; 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 2.5 year fixed term contract.