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Research Associate- GenAI Use and Neurodiversity in Higher Education (UCL ONLY)

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1108797


UCL


16/03/2026


Other - See Job


7-8 hours per week


Not Applicable

Pay


£14.85


£2.78

Description

Role

Unitemps are recruiting for a Research Associate- GenAI Use and Neurodiversity in Higher Education within the Science & Technology Studies department. The role is to work ASAP and will run until 31st July 2026 part time at 7 -8 hours per week. Payment is set at £14.85+ holiday pay per hour and the role will be HYBRID based.
 
To provide qualitative research assistance for an interdisciplinary study titled 'Determining the "proper": How neurodiverse students navigate GenAI norms in Higher Education', funded by the UCL BEAMS Positive Futures 2025-26 programme. The research seeks to examine how neurodiverse students perceive and construct boundaries between appropriate and inappropriate use of GenAI for their coursework, and how they have navigated these boundaries.

Duties and responsibilities
The research assistant will be involved in all aspects of the research for a total of 150 hours between March and July 2026.

The tasks include:
  • Contributing to a desk-based literature review
  • Recruiting neurodiverse student participants for the study
  • Conducting 12-15 semi-structured interviews
  • Transcribing, analysing and synthesising the resulting data
  • Supporting dissemination activities, including preparing materials and assisting with online event delivery
The research assistant will work as part of a team with Dr Joanna Octavia (Department of Science and Technology Studies), Dr Diana Martin (Centre for Engineering Education), Dr Nikolaos Koukopoulos (Department of Computer Science) and Dr Zied Hosni (Institute for Materials Discovery), and will be included as a named author on all publications relating to the research.
 

Skills and experience
Essential criteria

  • Current undergraduate or postgraduate taught student at UCL
  • Excellent communication and organisational skills
  • Excellent time management skills and a strong ability to meet deadlines
  • Experience in conducting literature review, qualitative interviews and analysis
  • Experience in using a qualitative research software (e.g., NVivo)
  • Experience in producing and writing up reports
  • The ability to work independently and as part of a team

Desirable criteria

  • Knowledge or interest in neurodiversity
  • Knowledge or interest in student experience of GenAI
  • Knowledge or interest in epistemic justice in higher education

Location
Hybrid

Additional information

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). This job will close for applications at 11.59pm on 2nd March 2026. Interviews will be held Tuesday 10th- Thursday 12th March 2026

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.

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

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