Student Research Assistant position in the IP Unit

Screen Shot 2015-05-19 at 16.36.20 PMThe IP Unit is pleased to announce a call for applications for a part-time student research assistant position. We are involved in several domestic, regional and international research collaborations, such as Open AIR, and we now seek an LL.B. student to join our team as a research assistant until March 2018.

Student research assistant duties will span the scholarly spectrum and can include: conducting literature reviews; creating surveys and other tools; collecting, managing and analysing data; co-writing peer reviewed articles and briefing papers; contributing to reports and submissions; co-presenting findings; writing blog posts and other media materials; network building through technology and social media; and assist with reporting and monitoring and evaluation duties. The student research assistant will also be encouraged and supported to conduct his/her own original research, under the direction and mentorship of academics based at UCT and/or other participating faculty, and could receive authorial or co-authorial credit. These activities will build academic skills like research methods, theory building, and scholarly publishing. The student research assistant will also have administrative duties in order to help build highly transferable professional skills such as leadership and teamwork, project management, and community engagement.

If you are interested in applying for this opportunity, please provide – via email to IP Unit Project Manager Nan Warner at nancy.warner@uct.ac.za – a curriculum vitae, copies of your qualification certificates and a covering letter outlining your qualifications/experience and how they would support our work. The deadline for applications is 30 October 2017. The full call for applications is available here.