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1099579
University of Surrey
22/09/2025
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The position involves about 250 hours of work, which will be focused mostly in the academic year 2025-2026, starting from September 2025.
Not Applicable
Pay
£16.90
£2.04
Description
Role
The Business School at the University of Surrey are recruiting a Research Assistant.
We seek a research assistant to work on a project titled “Who Benefits from Generative AI? Investigating Business Models and Public Policy Implications”, funded by the British Academy/ Leverhulme and The Society for the Advancement of Management Studies.
Candidates should ideally be based in the Guildford / London area. Most meetings will take place online but you need to be able to meet in Guildford or London occasionally.
Candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible and interviews will be held on a rolling basis.
In their application, candidates should include a motivational letter (no more than 500 words) and brief CV indicating their interest in the position.
Applications will close 29 August 2025 -we reserve the right to close the advert early if enough suitable candidates are received.
£16.90 per hour.
£2.04 per hour holiday pay.
The position involves about 250 hours of work, which will be focused mostly in the academic year 2025-2026, starting from September 2025.
Duties and responsibilities
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
The key responsibilities of the position will be to help with data collection, focusing on mapping the business models of several key firms in generative AI (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, and Nvidia), including an analysis based on their annual and quarterly reports as well as other archival data. The candidate will also help with analysis of key public policy documents, including the EU AI Act, the EU Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act (DSA). Depending on the profile and interests of the candidate there will also be opportunities to collaborate on subsequent publications.
Skills and experience
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
A student currently working on their PhD (or postdoc) in Management or related fields such as Information Systems or Innovation Studies. You need to have an interest in the socio-economic dynamics of digital technologies and be familiar with qualitative methods. The ideal candidate should also be interested in how value is created through firm actions and the policy landscape in which they are embedded. For further information about the project please click this Link.
If you would like to discuss the position informally, please email Dr Richard Tee.
Location
University of Surrey
Additional information
ABOUT SURREY BUSINESS SCHOOL
Surrey Business School is a leading business school with over 140 academic staff members from around the globe, and a highly cohesive and collegial atmosphere. The school is accredited by AACSB, AMBA and holds the Advance HE Athena SWAN bronze award. We inspire positive changes in business and society, individuals and organisations, locally and globally by blending the rigour of high-quality impactful research with excellent teaching and the strengths of a technology-led university. We are ranked in the top 10 for business and economics in the United Kingdom by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023 by subject. Our results in the Research Excellence Framework 2021 place us 19th overall in the UK, 10th in the UK for research outputs and 16th in the UK for research impact.
The school’s strengths are particularly in digital innovation and technological transformation, international business, leadership and organizational psychology, and business analytics. Set in the beautiful countryside of Surrey with the convenience of bustling Guildford on your doorstep and London just 34 minutes away by train, the University of Surrey is an outstanding international University with an enterprising spirit. The school runs a full range of programmes including undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA programmes, as well as a PhD programme. The school works closely with a network of business partners and other stakeholders, boasting strong links with many technology-oriented start-ups and established firms in London, and the South-East of England. For further information, please visit the SBS website.
We are committed to sustainability and encourage all staff to adopt working practices that minimise impact to the environment wherever possible.
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