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Research Assistant/Research Fellow

The Lehman Brothers Centre for Women in Business

 The Lehman Brothers Centre for Women in Business at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">London</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Business</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype></st1:place> is seeking to recruit a Research Assistant/Research Fellow.

 The Lehman Brothers Centre conducts cutting edge research on women in business. The successful candidate will engage in high quality research which lies within the Centre's research priorities. The research priorities include gender and innovation in teams, gender and career advancement, gender in management education and gender and entrepreneurship. The post will offer substantial opportunity to both participate and contribute to the Centre. This post is for one year initially.

The successful candidate will hold a PhD or a good Master's degree from a leading institution with a strong quantitative background in survey methodologies, particularly multivariate data analysis, and/or a strong qualitative background, particularly in ethnographic methods and/or discourse analysis. The researcher should be passionate about and have experience in studying issues around gender, innovative processes in teams, career advancement, management education and entrepreneurship.

 The application should contain the following: 

1. A cover letter outlining your general interest in becoming a research assistant/fellow in the Lehman Brothers Centre for Women in Business and how your experience and training would enable you to contribute to the Centre's research priorities (2 pages maximum)
2. A completed application form downloadable under  http://www.london.edu/womeninbusiness/news.html
3. An academic Curriculum Vitae (5 pages maximum)
4. A research proposal giving details of a research project the candidate would like to conduct clearly outlining how the research would fit within the Centre's research priorities (up to 5,000 words including bibliography, double spaced lines).

 The applications should quote the reference LBCWIB and should be sent to:

Enid Silverstone

<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">London</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Business</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype></st1:place>

Regent's Park

<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city></st1:place> NW1 4SA

<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">United Kingdom</st1:country-region></st1:place>

Please do not send additional material at this stage. Previous applicants do not need to apply. For more information on the Lehman Brothers Centre for Women in Business see http://www.london.edu/womeninbusiness.html. For informal inquires contact lbcwomeninbusiness@london.edu.

The deadline for application is 1 June 2007.