Source: Kings College, Deadline: 07.07.2008.

Application are invited for a three year (full-time only) Research Associate position in the context of a major project entitled ‘Do Forecasts Matter? Early Warnings and the Prevention of Armed Conflict’.

Research Associate post available on EU-funded Project on ‘Early Warning and Conflict Prevention’
Department of War Studies - King’s College, London

Application are invited for a three year (full-time only) Research Associate position in the context of a major project entitled ‘Do Forecasts Matter? Early Warnings and the Prevention of Armed Conflict’.

The project is led by Dr Christoph Meyer and will receive funding by the European Research Council, a new body set-up by the EU to support frontier research. The project team further comprises two doctoral researchers on full scholarships. The project seeks to better understand the interplay of communication and political perception of early warnings about impending intra-state armed conflict since the end of the Cold War. Visit Dr Meyer’s staff webpage for a project summary (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/ws/staff/com.html)

Candidates must have PhD in the social sciences, be well-organised, have a good knowledge of methodological issues in doing research, good IT and foreign language skills.
The appointment will be on Grade 6 at £29,138 plus £2,323 London Allowance.

For further particulars and application details, please contact strand-recruitment@kcl.ac.uk or write to the HR Department, Strand Campus, King’s College London, London WC2R 2LS. Please quote N6/DAW/74/08 on all correspondence.

The closing date for receipt of applications is 7 July 2008.  Interviews will be held on 24 July 2008.
Equality of opportunity is College policy