Research Assistant

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 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 home to over 2,300 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.

The UCL School of Management takes full advantage of being part of a world-leading university through its interdisciplinary outlook and builds on close collaborations in both research and education with other UCL departments, including computer science, engineering, economics, psychology, public policy, statistics and medical sciences.

About the role

This role supports Professor Angela Aristidou’s research programme on AI and the Economy, focusing on how smaller, less resourced organisations adopt artificial intelligence. The research aims to understand barriers to AI adoption, evaluate the impact of low-cost interventions, and assess outcomes such as AI readiness, behaviour changes, and business performance over time.

The postholder will assist with a range of research activities, including data collection, curation, merging, analysis, and reporting. Data sources include regular customised surveys, administrative datasets (e.g. Beauhurst and Companies House), and company strategy documents.

This is a fixed-term position to begin as soon as possible until 6^th April 2027.

Part-time: up to 18.25 hours per week- variable (depending on project timetable)

Salary: UCL Grade 6, £19.14 per hour (including London Allowance)

About you

The ideal candidate will hold an undergraduate degree in a relevant field such as social science, engineering, statistics, or computer science, and will have experience in data collection, processing, and analysing survey-based data. They will demonstrate experience in managing large databases and supporting academic research, alongside excellent working knowledge of Qualtrics and the Microsoft Office Suite. A high level of literacy and numeracy is essential, as is a strong attention to detail and accuracy.

The candidate will possess excellent written and verbal communication skills, enabling them to liaise effectively with a wide range of stakeholders involved in the research project. They will be able to meet time-critical deadlines and work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team.

When completing your supporting statement, please tell us, using examples, how you meet the essential criteria listed in the job description.

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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