Post Doctoral Research Associate

School of Economics

Applications are invited for the post of Post Doctoral Research Associate to contribute to the Leverhulme-funded project entitled “Gender impacts of face-to-face academic interactions: Evidence from conferences”.

The project’s goal is to identify and understand differential conference impacts by gender. By exploiting a natural experiment, the project aims to determine whether men and women benefit differently from disseminating their work though conferences, to document dynamics of gender differences among academics, and discover mechanisms that drive any gender differences. 

What you will do :

• Assist the project leaders (Dr Fernanda Leon and Dr Ben McQuillin) in conducting the research as described in the grant proposal.
• Assist in data collection, and construction, auditing, and maintenance of large databases in Excel and in Stata.
• Contribute to data analysis and the writing of research papers and outputs addressing the project’s research aims, in collaboration with the project leaders.

What you will need :

• PhD or equivalent (or near completion) in Economics or in another discipline related to the project (including relevant Social Sciences or Computing)
• Convincing evidence of strong research skills in applied microeconomics
• Experience and knowledge of web-scraping
• Experience in working with statistical packages, including Stata and Excel

if you require further information about the role please contact the peopleserviceshr@kent.ac.uk quoting : HSS-219-24