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Researcher

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1097008


UCL


02/06/2025


2 Months


Part-time; 14.6 hours per week


Not Applicable

Pay


£18.88


£3.53

Description

Role

Unitemps are recruiting for a Researcher for the Bartlett School. This role is for an early June start date and has a projected end date of July 31st 2025. This is a part time role at 14.6 hours per week. Payment is set at £18.88 per hour + holiday pay. This role will be remote (homebased) working.

About the Project

The influence of lobbying on climate policy is critical but often opaque—posing a significant challenge to effective climate action. To address this, we are developing an innovative AI-powered platform designed to extract, analyse, organise, and visualise data on climate lobbying across Europe.As part of this project, we are seeking a Research Assistant to support human validation of large language model (LLM) outputs, ensuring the accuracy and interpretive quality of AI-generated insights on lobbying activity.

Duties and responsibilities

Key Responsibilities
  • Analyse and validate AI-generated outputs related to lobbying activities in EU climate policy.
  • Identify and interpret nuanced positions of diverse stakeholder groups (industry, NGOs, think tanks) on policy proposals.
  • Contribute to thematic coding and qualitative analysis of organisational statements, particularly regarding the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).
  • Potentially engage with overlapping areas, such as the Eco-Design Directive.
  • Use qualitative analysis software (e.g. MaxQDA, NVivo) for content organisation and insights extraction.

Skills and experience

Essential Requirements

  • At least graduate degree (or currently enrolled in a relevant programme and close to end of studies) in environmental policy, political science, sustainability, or a related field.
  • Strong knowledge of climate policy and EU environmental governance.
  • Ability to discern subtle differences in organisational policy preferences.
  • Excellent analytical and written communication skills.• High attention to detail and ability to work independently.

Desirable Skills

  • Experience with qualitative thematic analysis software such as MaxQDA or NVivo.
  • Understanding of stakeholder dynamics in EU policy-making.
  • Familiarity with the EU CBAM process.
  • Interest in the intersection of AI and policy research.

Location
UCL; home based working

Additional information

This job will close for applications at 11.59pm on Monday May 26th. Interviews will be held shortly after (June 2nd).

*Please note to be eligible to work within this role, you must have the right to work in the UK, be physically based in the UK and be able to travel to our London based office for a RTW check (if required).

*If you have a full-time contract of employment with UCL, you are not able to work through UCL Unitemps at the same time.

Unitemps reserves the right to close this advert for applications prior to the date specified above, if a high volume of suitable applications are received so pleased don't delay applying.

Unitemps payroll is monthly, one month in arrears, please see the payroll dates here.

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