(Associate) Professor and Director

Founded in 1902, UCL Institute of Education has been shaping policy and helping government, organisations and individuals navigate a changing society for the last 120 years. We embrace collaboration and excellence to create a future that is inclusive and just and have been ranked number one for education every year since 2014 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.

The Social Research Institute – formerly the Department of Social Science – in the UCL Institute of Education is one of the leading centres for social research in the UK.

The Centre for Time Use Research (CTUR) is an ESRC-designated Legacy Research Centre specialising in the collection and analysis of time use diary data, disseminating both skills and datasets to a wide international audience, and conducting a world-leading research programme. CTUR originated, produces, and disseminates the Multinational Time Use Study (MTUS), which currently provides 1.5 million days of randomly sampled time diary evidence for 25 countries over 65 years, via its website (timeuse.org) and IPUMS USA.

We work with time use data to investigate issues of social life, paid work patterns, work-life balance, family, gender, and socio-economic structure.

Our centre also specialises in finding innovative applications for population time-use evidence in fields such as public health, transport and energy research.

Further details of CTUR’s current work can be found at: www.timeuse.org.

We are seeking outstanding candidates at either Associate Professor or full Professor level.

In this post, you will be responsible for the strategic leadership of the centre, communicating a vision for CTUR’s future and driving its strategic direction. You will identify new areas of development and innovation at CTUR, develop a strategy for future funding and have overall responsibility for centre staff.

In addition, you will also make an important contribution to our research and teaching in the general area of quantitative social science.

You will have a track record of academic leadership, including effective management of people, projects and resources.

This post is available from January 2027.

For a full job description and to apply for this role please visit UCL’s online recruitment portal (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs) and search using vacancy reference B16-02088.

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits.

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.

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.

Our faculty holds an Athena SWAN Silver award, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality.

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