Research Assistant, 1 Year Contract

Singapore University of Social Sciences; Singapore; On-site; SGD 39,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

Singapore University of Social Sciences in Singapore seeks a Research and Evidence Support role to collect, organise, and prepare research data for analysis and to conduct literature searches, reviews, environmental scans and background research for the research team.

You will support qualitative activities, including interview logistics, transcription checking, coding, and data organisation, and assist with drafting research summaries, reports, and grant applications under guidance.

Responsibilities

• Collect, organise, and prepare research data for analysis.
• Conduct literature searches, literature reviews, environmental scans and background research.
• Organise and summarise relevant evidence for the research team.
• Support qualitative research activities including interview logistics and transcription checking.
• Assist with coding frameworks, data organisation and preliminary thematic or content analysis.
• Assist in drafting and preparing research summaries, reports, working papers, and presentations.

Skills

Qualitative research

Data management

Literature review

Interview logistics

Transcription checks

Tools

Excel

SPSS

Stata

R

Job description

1.Research and Evidence Support

• Collect, organise, process and prepare research data for analysis, ensuring records are complete, accurate and systematically maintained.Conduct literature searches, literature reviews, environmental scans and background research, and organise and summarise relevant evidence for the research team.
• Support primarily qualitative research activities, including interview and focus-group logistics, audio-recording preparation, transcription checking, coding, data organisation and preliminary thematic or content analysis under guidance.
• Assist with research instruments and materials such as interview guides, survey questionnaires, coding frameworks, participant documents and evidence tables.
• Support quantitative data work where required, including data entry, cleaning, validation, descriptive summaries and preparation of tables or charts. Familiarity with Excel and statistical software such as SPSS, Stata or R is an advantage but not a requirement.
• Assist in drafting and preparing research summaries, reports, working papers, presentations and materials for publications or dissemination.
• Assist in grant writing, including background research, literature and evidence synthesis, preparation of supporting information, and drafting or compiling sections of grant applications under guidance.