Research Assistant (Software)

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About the Centre for Time Use Research (CTUR)

CTUR specialises in finding innovative applications for population time-use diary evidence in fields such as happiness, public health, transport, energy and environmental sustainability. It investigates social life, paid work patterns, work-life balance, family, gender and socio-economic structure. It contributes its expertise to a range of national and international agencies, currently including the UK Office of National Statistics, the UK Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence, the International Labour Organisation and the OECD.

About the role

We're looking for a front-end developer to help us improve O-ELiDDI, our open-source daily activity time-use research tool. Your main focus will be on enhancing performance with client-side caching and ensuring the application is fully accessible for all users. This is a great role for a developer with solid HTML, CSS, and modern JavaScript skills who is passionate about creating inclusive and performant open-source web experiences. Experience with web accessibility (a11y) standards and client-side caching is desirable.

This project might be suitable for a job-share or be converted to two fractional appointments and is available until 31 July 2027 in the first instance.

If you have any questions about the post please contact Oriel Sullivan – o.sullivan@ucl.ac.uk

Please note that the interviews for this role are expected to be during week commencing 23rd February 2026 and/or during week commencing 2nd March 2026.

About you

You will have a strong foundation in HTML, CSS, and modern JavaScript (ES6+) and the ability to use GitHub for version control, collaboration, reviewing code and merging changes.

Your application form should address all the person specification points and should clearly demonstrate how your skills and experience meet each of the criteria.

It is important that the criteria are clearly numbered and that you provide a response to each one.

Customer advert reference: B16-02001

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