Ref Number B04-06007
Professional Expertise Research and Research Support Department UCL BEAMS (B04)
Location: London
Working Pattern: Part time
Salary: £35,930-£41,255
Contract Type: Fixed-term
Working Type: Hybrid
Available for Secondment: No
Closing Date: 21-Apr-2025
About Us
The UCL Department of Risk and Disaster Reduction (RDR) inspires innovation and evidence-based practice focused on improving disaster risk reduction (DRR) through our research, education, and partnerships. This creates a better life for many people by reducing the negative impacts of disasters. The RDR is an exciting cross-UCL department, which leads research, knowledge exchange and teaching in the fields of risk and disaster reduction and humanitarian action. By providing a focus for UCL’s activities the RDR, with its breadth of disciplinary emphasis, promotion of novel multidisciplinary research and translation into practice, aims to assume a role of leadership both in the UK and internationally. The Department has 30 members of academic and teaching staff, 12 members of research staff ranging from research assistants to professorial research fellows and 9 members of professional services staff. The Department is in the Faculty of Mathematics and Physical Sciences (MAPS), but works across all UCL’s faculties, and contributes to UCL’s Grand Challenges.
Research The RDR strives to produce world-leading research in disaster risk reduction through a multidisciplinary perspective for the long-term benefit of humanity. The RDR has established the Humanitarian Institute, Centre for Digital Public Health in Emergencies, Centre for Gender and Disaster, and jointly with UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies the Warning Research Centre. The RDR conducts research around the themes of disaster risk reduction and resilience, cascading crises, natural hazards, climate change risk and adaptation, humanitarian crisis response, GIS and remote sensing, law and economics, conflict and migration, catastrophe modelling, warning, digital health in emergencies, and inclusivity including gender responsive resilience, in order to integrate education, research, innovation and enterprise for the long-term benefit of humanity.
Teaching The RDR aims to develop leaders and experts in disaster risk reduction research, education, and practice. We run PhD and MRes programmes in Risk and Disaster Reduction, MSc programmes in Risk, Disaster and Resilience and Risk and Disaster Science, and an undergraduate BSc programme in Global Humanitarian Studies, all with a diverse and cross-disciplinary international intake. We have about 25 PhD students, 90 masters students and will have about 180 students across the three years of the BSc programme from 2023-2024 academic year.
Knowledge Exchange, Public Policy and Research Impact The RDR seeks to empower all to break down barriers to global DRR knowledge. This knowledge exchange is a core part of the mission of the RDR, which it seeks to fulfil by publishing high-impact reports, engagement with the media and building long-term partnerships. RDR members have joined and led several field missions and contributed to multidisciplinary reports. These reports have been drawn on by the UK Cabinet Office and other government bodies in advice to ministers. RDR staff contributed substantially to the UCL-Lancet Commission on Migration and Health. The RDR has close links with London First, the business representative grouping, private companies, London Resilience and UK Government, including the Cabinet Office, and is developing links with intergovernmental organizations such as the International Migration Organization, Plan International, UN Women and other NGOs. UCL RDR runs regular events to engage the public and potential partners in issues relating to risk and disaster reduction and humanitarian action, such as its Annual Conference and Humanitarian Summit.
About The Role
The key tasks for the RA are to support with administration and logistics regarding the 1-day workshop for the Social Finance for Better Post Disaster Health project (SoFIT project) to be held in June 2025, to support with creating pathways for research uptake/dissemination with Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB), data collection, analysis and compilation as required. The 1-day workshop is to enable a face-to-face meeting with an expert from Indonesia's Resilience Development Initiative, stakeholders in social finance, and the private sector to support the co-production of an innovative financial instrument for better post-disaster health in Indonesia to enable uptake of research. The workshop will support the building of a REF 2029 impact case study. To enable this, the RA will play a critical role in creating impact pathways for research uptake/dissemination with Indonesia’s BNPB.
About You
The post-holder should be reading for a PhD with excellent skills in organisation, communication and secondary data collection. Prior experience working with Indonesia’s Disaster Management Agency and proficiency with Bahasa Indonesia required to support with data gathering and research uptake. Commitment to working to a higher quality in a collaborative working environment, involving international partners essential.
What we offer
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits, some of which are:
* 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave, 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days per annum)
* Additional 5 days' annual leave purchase scheme
* Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
* Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
* Immigration loan
* Relocation scheme for certain posts
* On-site gym
* Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
* Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
* Discounted medical insurance. To find out more, visit www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women. You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here.
Available documents
Attached documents are available under links. Clicking a document link will initialize its download.
* download: RA_Impact Award.pdf
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