Research Assistant – Law

The post is up to 20 hours per week for a fixed term of 10 weeks.

Location: Bloomsbury, London

(Successful candidates must be based in the UK for the duration of their contract)

Contract type: Part-Time, Fixed Term (10 weeks)

This post is designed to assist the academic leads Professor Eddie Bruce-Jones (SOAS) and Professor Tao Leigh Goffe (Hunter College, New York) of the AHRC/NEH-funded project ‘Towards an Integrated Colonial Archive’ to compile and catalogue research on British colonial indentureship.

About the Department

The School of Law is the only one of its kind in the UK – dedicated to legal systems and legal challenges of the developing world, with complementary strengths in human rights, international law and institutions, environmental law and international trade and commerce.

We have unrivalled expertise and produce world-leading research in comparative law (China, Africa, South/South-East Asia, the Middle East), complemented by specialists in international and transnational law, human rights, transnational commercial law, environmental law and socio-legal method.

Further information about the School of Law, Gender and Media is available here:

https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/schools-and-departments/school-law-gender-and-media

About the role

The role involves:

• Conducting library and digital research related to the British colonial indentureship period
• Organising and filing copies of select photographic and audio files
• Liaising with project stakeholders and partners, including libraries, individual owners of select artefacts
• Assisting in planning launch event and panel event

As the role covers a very short period of time, the candidate must be available for the entire three-month duration of the project, including for a weekly project briefing.    

Skills and experience

Candidates will have:

• Masters degree in a subject in the Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences
• Experience doing library research
• Demonstrated interest and/or experience working on the subjects of British colonialism, slavery or indenture, Afro-Asian diasporas, or other related aspects of diaspora studies
• Proficiency using the Microsoft Office suite of programmes
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Good organisational skills
• Good interpersonal skills

To apply, please click the 'Apply' button, above.

Closing Date:  4th April, 2024

Completed applications must be received by 23:59 on the closing date to be considered.

Further information

Please note that it will not be possible for SOAS to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for successful candidates. Successful candidates will therefore need to be eligible to work in the UK or have limited leave to remain in the UK and associated right to work for the duration of their employment with SOAS, in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.

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