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1-2 teaching assistant (s)

The Department of Peace and Conflict Research was established in 1971 to conduct peace research and offer courses in peace and conflict studies. Currently approx. 90 persons are employed at the Department and approximately 1000 students are enrolled every academic year. Courses offered include undergraduate and post-graduate courses, as well as a Ph. D. programme. For more information, visit www.pcr.uu.se.

The department seek 1-2 teaching assistant(s) to work within the project Societies at risk: The Impact of armed conflict on human development for a part time employment (20%), for 5 months. The project started in January 2022 with funding from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and will run through 2027. This multi-disciplinary program brings together scholars from economics, epidemiology, political science, and conflict research to study the effects of armed conflict in much more detail and comprehensiveness than earlier studies. It takes a risk-analysis perspective, seeing the expected impact as a function of hazard, exposure, and vulnerability, and consider effects at both the macro and micro level, on economies, health, water security, political institutions, human rights, forced migration, and gender equality. Hazard will be modeled through an early-warning system, expanding the well-established ViEWS system, to alert observers to particularly detrimental occurrences of violence (Views). The project is described at: Societies at risk.

Duties
Duties for a teaching assistant can include teaching, administration or participation in research or artistic research. Within the project Societies at Risk: The Impact of armed conflict on human development, the teaching assistant is expected to work on the following tasks:

• Data collection and preparation
• Development of illustrations (maps, statistical or data-based graphs, visual summaries)
• Development and write-up of documentation material
• Writing and editing of policy reports
• Workshop assistance and miscellaneous writing tasks
• Programming tasks to improve presentation and data analysis in VIEWS.
• Statistical analysis of data
• Brief case studies of regions/countries of particular interest for the forecasts
• The teaching assist will report to the project leader, and work closely with research assistants and researchers within ‘Societies at Risk’.

Requirements
For employment as a teaching assistant, it is a requirement that you are admitted as a student at undergraduate or advanced level. In this role, it is also required that you are an active student in the peace and conflict programme at Uppsala University.

The following qualifications are also needed for this role:

• You should be able to work independently, have excellent knowledge of quantitative methods, including machine-learning methods.
• You are familiar with evaluation of prediction systems, good working knowledge and experience of R and/or Python, has experience with GitHub, as well as excellent writing skills in English.
• Attention to detail and exactness, analytical and problem-solving skills, and good interpersonal abilities are of high importance.

Meritorious

• It is advantageous if you are a master student within the Master's programme of peace and conflict studies at Uppsala University, and if you have experience in developing templates and information material in Overleaf.
• Knowledge in research methods, statistics and empirical social research are merited skills, as well as if you have experience as project assistant.

Application
Your application should include a personal letter (max 1 page) describing your merits and why you are suitable for the position, as well as your CV.

For further information about the position, please contact: Project leader Håvard Hegre, havard.hegre@pcr.uu.se.

About the employment
The employment is a: temporary position according to the Higher Education Ordinance chapter 5 § 12. Scope and length of employment: 20 % for 5 months. Starting date: 15 January 2024, or as agreed. Placement: Uppsala.

Please submit your application by 30 November 2023, UFV-PA 2023/4182.

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