Research Assistant (Digital Product Development)

The Social Research Institute is one of the leading centres for social research in the UK. It is home to seven internationally renowned research units:

• Centre for Longitudinal Studies
• Centre for Time Use Research
• CLOSER
• EPPI Centre
• Quantitative Social Science
• Social Science Research Unit
• Thomas Coram Research Unit

All of our centres are multidisciplinary, with staff drawn variously from economics, sociology, social policy, demography, psychology, anthropology and social statistics. We promote problem-solving interdisciplinary research on particular themes where we have outstanding scholarship and critical mass, e.g. gender, families, work, inequalities, migration, bio-social interactions.

Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS)

The Centre for Longitudinal Studies is multidisciplinary research centre, and is funded by ESRC as a Resource Centre which leads four of Britain's internationally renowned cohort studies:

• 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS)
• 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70)
• Millennium Cohort Study (MCS)
• Next Steps (formerly the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England)

The Centre has also recently been funded to test the feasibility of establishing a new UK birth cohort study, the Early Life Cohort Feasibility Study (funded by ESRC), and is collaborating on two further new longitudinal studies, the Children of the 2020s (funded by DfE) and the Covid Social Mobility study (COSMO) (funded by UKRI).

About the role

The Research Assistant has a crucial role to play in supporting the study leadership team and wider group of investigators in setting up the new data discovery platform which will allow researchers to find existing research data faster and make better use of it.

This involves working closely with stakeholder and our academic and industry partners to develop and understand user journeys and subsequently to improve user experiences for different user profiles. You will get unique insights into state-of-the-art data science and technology innovation.

This post is available until 30 June 2025 in the first instance.

About you

You will have a Masters qualification or equivalent professional experience in a relevant discipline such as digital product development, human-computer interaction, UX-design, computer sciences and well as knowledge of quantitative and qualitative methods appropriate to inform product development and conduct user testing.

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.

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