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Research Assistant

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1109805


UCL


23/03/2026


Other - See Job


Part-time; 12 hours per week


Not Applicable

Pay


£20.57


£3.85

Description

Role

Unitemps are recruiting for a Research Assistant. This role is for an asap start date and has a projected end date of July 31st 2026. This is a part-time role at 12 hours per week. Payment is set at £20.57 per hour + £3.85 holiday pay. This role will be UCL remote working from home.
 
The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction is one of the world’s leading academic centres of excellence in the management of projects, infrastructure delivery, construction and infrastructure economics and finance, real estate and urban economics, digital transformations in facilities and built asset management, and sustainable and data-driven change in the construction industry and its supply chains. Its mission is to have successful students, outstanding outputs and sustainable transformation, by:
  • delivering research-informed teaching on leading theories and practice• performing research which is useful to practitioners and is valued by scholars
  • advising on issues and delivering solutions to government and industry which improve performance

The School has around 700 students and over 100 staff members. Staff have strong international links with other leading global universities, and strategic relationships with relevant parts of government, key organisations in specific fields and major companies, in and beyond construction and infrastructure.

More information about the School can be found here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/construction/

Duties and responsibilities

Research

  • To conduct a literature review on the topic and develop an excel based tool to estimate carbon footprint and end-of-life of solar products in Bboxx Kenya.
  • To develop an excel based tool for estimating carbon footprint and emissions of end-of-life solar products.
  • To familiarise themselves with previous work on end of life solar in Kenya.
  • To arrange meetings, manage agendas and to take minutes for the project team meetings.
  • To support and the preparation and delivery of a peer review journal publication.

Skills and experience

Qualifications, experience and knowledge

  • Relevant academic background such as environmental science, engineering, maths or human geography.
  • A working knowledge of energy infrastructure delivery, particularly in low-income settings.
  • Experience in providing administrative support to research projects.

Skills and abilities

  • Excellent organisational, communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to work collaboratively with academic and industry.
  • Ability to deliver to strict deadlines (e.g. project reports and outputs).
  • Ability to work independently and as part of team.
  • Excellent report writing and IT skills.

Location
UCL; remote working from home

Additional information

This job will close for applications at 11.59pm on Wednesday March 18th. Interviews will be held shortly after.

*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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