Department: Social Sciences Institute
Vacancy ID: 031901
Closing Date: 24-Nov-2024
Maynooth University is committed to a strategy in which the primary University goals of excellent research and scholarship and outstanding education are interlinked and equally valued.
We are seeking a research assistant with experience of qualitative social science data to work on the management, processing and archiving of a bi-lingual data collection to be collected for the “LINLOSS” project, funded through an ERC award to Professor Jane Gray. LINLOSS will collect a large body of complex data in Ireland and Poland, including unstructured life narratives, structured life histories, support genealogies and neighbourhood maps. Working closely with the Principal Investigator and all members of the LINLOSS research team, the research assistant will act as a data steward and oversee the implementation of the data management plan to ensure that the project complies with FAIR principles, GDPR legislation, and with university, national and international standards on research ethics, data protection and open research practices. They will be responsible for organising, documenting and archiving project data to a trusted digital repository.
The research assistant will assist with the organization of workshops, conferences and other public events, and with the dissemination of project outputs. As a core member of the research team, they will contribute to presentations at national and international conferences, and to scholarly publications arising from the project.
Salary
Research Assistant, Level 2 (2024): €36,796 - €39,188 p.a.(4 points with increment)
Appointments will be made in accordance with public sector pay provisions.
