Department of Sociology
We are looking to recruit a part-time, 20 hours a week, Research Assistant/Associate in Sociology as soon as possible for a fixed term for 9 months.
You will be providing research support for a new project run by Professor Manali Desai researching the political economy of gendered violence in North India. You will have a strong interest in gendered inequalities, population, and computational social science research. You will have experience of handling complex survey data at scale.
The role holder will support this research using publicly available government and other data (which include NFHS, DHS, NCRB, SC/ST Atrocities Act, Socio-Economic Survey SECC, IHDS, National Election Dataset NES, Census, Periodic Labour Force PLFS, Socioeconomic High-resolution Rural-Urban Geographic Platform for India (SHRUG), and others) to map multidimensional violence and multidimensional poverty and gender.
The role involves managing, harmonizing, and analysing complex survey datasets, and generating statistical and spatial insights to inform research on gendered violence.