Location: Denmark Hill Campus
Contact details: Robert Patterson / Zoe Kennedy. [email protected] / [email protected]
Job description
At King’s, we continuously strive to be an inclusive, culturally aware and culturally competent organisation that respects the differences of our community by providing an environment that both acknowledges and celebrates diversity and embraces inclusion. The abilities, achievements, and successes of the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) are entirely dependent on our people and our community.
This is a new role at the IoPPN working across the IoPPN Culture, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (CEDI) Team and the Faculty Research Management Team. If successful, you will support the IoPPN in achieving its strategic goal to foster an open, flexible and inclusive environment, where all staff and students feel included.
Working with the CEDI Lead, Faculty Research Manager and Research Development Manager you will be responsible for undertaking a strategic review of current Research Culture related activities across the faculty identifying gaps and developing initiatives to address these gaps. As Research Culture Support Manager, you will create clear ownership, expertise and accountability for delivery of initiatives and improvements to Research Culture. You will also work with the King’s central Research Culture team and similar posts in other faculties to ensure King’s initiatives are communicated and embedded at the IoPPN and that examples of best practice are shared across the college.
It is an exciting time to join the team as we work towards establishing an open, positive and inclusive Research Culture at the IoPPN and ensuring our existing success in CEDI are embedded within our diverse research portfolio. This role is a great opportunity if you are an enthusiastic, and collaborative worker interested in expanding your knowledge around EDI and Research Culture in Higher Education.
We particularly welcome applications from you if you identify as being from a racialised or ethnic minority or have a disability; these characteristics are currently under-represented at the IoPPN.
At the IoPPN, the second largest faculty of King’s College London, our staff and students work to transform care for people who are affected by mental health and neurological conditions, through world-class research, education, and training, and to serve our communities locally and globally. We are at the forefront of global mental health research and advancements in understanding of the human brain. Through our partnerships, we foster research and training in policy, prevention, treatment, and care locally and around the world. As a research-intensive faculty, fostering a positive collective research culture is imperative to ensuring our world leading research operates in an environment which encourages openness and collaboration. As leaders in our fields, we have a responsibility to promote and champion the tenets of research culture in all that we do, including staff development, open and reproducible science, CEDI and research integrity.
This post will be offered on an a fixed-term contract for 3 years.
This is a full-time post. However, applications for part-time or job-shares will be considered.
This is a hybrid role with on campus working primarily at Denmark Hill but ad hoc at other campuses.