Research Technician

About us

The UCL School of Management is home to UCL’s business and management research and education programmes. The School has forged a reputation for world-leading research and teaching in the areas of innovation management, the creation and growth of technology-intensive organisations, business analytics, and entrepreneurship.

The research undertaken at the UCL School of Management has been rated as ‘world-leading’ and ‘internationally excellent’ in the Research Excellence Framework 2021 (REF), placing us 2nd in the UK for Business and Management. The School is accredited by both the AACSB and AMBA, and is a member of the Chartered Association of Business Schools.

The School is home to over 2,000 students, with more than 55% from outside the UK. The School’s faculty members also come from all over the world, with PhDs from Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Columbia, UCLA, Northwestern, Cornell, Duke, Cambridge, and London Business School, among others.

About the role

The UCL School of Management is seeking a Research Technician who can provide advanced behaviour and technical support to researchers working on projects within the subject areas of Organisation & Innovation, Strategy & Entrepreneurship, Marketing & Analytics, and Operations & Technology. The post will have a priority responsibility to serve the School of Management Behavioural Research Lab.

The postholder will assist Professors, Associate Professors and Lecturers at various stages of research projects, as well as the Behavioural Research Lab Manager with the participant pool recruitment and data collection phase of the research process.

This is a full-time position with a start date of November 2025.

Salary – UCL Grade 7 £43,981 to £52,586 per annum (including London Allowance)

Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details. Please also read the attached Candidate Guidance document. When completing your supporting statement, please tell us, using examples, how you meet the essential criteria listed in the job description.

About you

The successful candidate will hold an undergraduate degree in a relevant field such as social science, engineering, statistics, or computer science. They will have experience using both Python and R programming languages, including packages related to data collection and processing such as Pandas and Tidyverse, as well as experience with web development programming (e.g. JavaScript) and managing large datasets comprising millions of rows of data.

In addition, they will demonstrate knowledge of business and management research methods, including behavioural experimentation and survey design. The role requires a high level of literacy and numeracy, along with the ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing, with students, academic and administrative staff, and external contacts at all levels.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

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