*~#~~~~~hoxtonchick~~~~ and any one who knows anything about think tanks

[thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat]

hello. just wondering in what order you would place the following job titles within the same organisation:
research assistant ( I assume this goes at the bottom)
senior researcher
research fellow
senior research fellow
research director

• its the senior researcher and research fellow business I'm not sure about. is "fellow" Good? the only other info I can tell you is that Research Fellow jobs are advertised at about £28k. Can't find any other pay levels.

just bumping (sorry)

have just told her you're looking for her!

thanks MI

oooh, a thread with my name in the title :o.
where i am, fellow is good. so i think you've put them in the right order - senior researcher is less important than a research fellow. the pay looks a little miserly though - i think fellows start on 35k+, researchers certainly go up to 30k or so.

hope that's helpful. can you tell us what you're looking at?

thanks hc. apart from the pay and the fact it's full time it sounds like my ideal job! (although I'm old enough to have realised there's no such thing as an ideal job). It's for the Institute of Public Policy Research and it's on the Responsibility to Protect - which is a Canadian initiative exploring ways of reacting to situations like Darfur. Part of what I've been studying this year is on the legal framework for intervention, plus protection of refugees, plus a project on water and armed conflict, plus what I was doing before is relevant. so this is perfect.

Oooh, I do some editing for them.

I noticed that one of their staff is from your place HC

ooh, yes, someone i used to work with went to head up their health bit. but i think she's on maternity leave. great location!

sorry, didn't finish. worth putting in a part-time application i should think.

I just love the way MN can switch from naming of private parts to grown-up stuff like "legal framework for intervention, plus protection of refugees, plus a project on water and armed conflict" in two threads

it's a particularly good location for me - I trvel in to Waterloo so it's a 10 minute walk across the Bridge. I thought quite hard about how to approach the full-time p-t bit. The last time I called about a job prior to putting an application in I got told by some HR-type perosn to forget p-t. So I decided this time I would put my application in without mentioning it - ie make sure they actually read the thing, then (hopefully) if it whets their appetite enough to ask me to interview I will say at that point that I'm not availble full time - do you still want to interview me? I don;t like the idea of going as far as a job offer before broaching the subject (although I know some people who have done this), I don't like doing it before applying when they haven't got a clue really how good a match I am, and I don't like the idea of bringing it up at interview, so I hatched this.