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Research and Innovation Division
Research Officer (Research and Innovation Policy)
Salary from £44,143 to £52,749 pa inclusive with potential to progress to £56,607pa inclusive of London allowance (pro-rata)
This is a fixed-term position at 0.8FTE (28 hours per week) until 31 st March 2027.
LSE’s awarding winning R&I Evidence and Analysis Service is seeking to appoint a Research Officer to work on the UKRI/DSIT funded project ‘What is unique about responsive mode funding?’ The project is a collaboration between research management professionals based at LSE and computer scientists at the University of Edinburgh. It will investigate historic UKRI administrative data to better understand the role of responsive mode funding within the wider UK R&I ecosystem.
The role will involve analysing administrative data and developing (with computer science colleagues) visualisations and written outputs which provide new insights into responsive mode funding programmes. The research will seek to understand the impact of responsive mode funding on areas such as research trends, levels of interdisciplinarity, cross-sector collaboration, policy engagement and knowledge transfer. The post will sit in the R&I Evidence and Analysis team within the Research and Innovation Division. There will be opportunities to interact with LSE’s world-class social science researchers via the project steering group as well as opportunities to establish interdisciplinary collaborations with project team members working in high-performance computing at the University of Edinburgh.
The postholder will have a PhD, be working towards completion of a PhD, or have other research experience that demonstrates the capability to produce independent original research. They will also have experience working with large administrative datasets and will be expected to have a strong understanding of the UK research and innovation policy and funding landscape.
This is a fixed-term position at 0.8FTE (28 hours per week) for 10 months.
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