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Research Assistant UCL ONLY

Details


1110390


UCL


20/04/2026


2 Months


5 hours


Not Applicable

Pay


£20.57


£3.85

Description

Role

Unitemps are recruiting for a Research Assistant within the Department of Information Studies. The role is to work the date of Monday 20th April 2026 and will run until Friday 26th June 2026 part time at 5 hours per week. Payment is set at £20.57+ holiday pay per hour and the role will be HYBRID based.

The appointed research assistant will support two UCL staff researchers (Dr. George Cooper and Dr. Christopher Adams) in the Department of Information Studies on a pilot research project titled, 'Inclusive Publishing Across Borders: LGBTQ+ Books for a Global Market'. 
 
This research project examines how the shifting commercial and regulatory constraints affecting books with LGBTQ+ characters, themes or subject matter are influencing publishing practice in the United Kingdom. The project will explore how publishing professionals navigate these considerations across multiple sectors of the industry, including trade fiction and nonfiction, children’s and young adult publishing, and scholarly publishing. It will investigate how decisions about content, language, design, and marketing are made when publishers anticipate distribution in markets with different cultural norms or regulatory constraints.

Duties and responsibilities

This advertised vacancy is for a temporary research assistant to contribute to a pilot research workshop for a project titled 'Inclusive Publishing Across Borders: LGBTQ+ Books for a Global Market'. The workshop will bring together eight publishing professionals working across different areas of book publishing, including commissioning, editorial, production, marketing, publicity, sales, and rights management. 

Participants will be invited to discuss how books addressing LGBTQ+ topics are prepared for international markets. The workshop will take place at UCL during the first week of June 2026 and will be chaired by the project’s co-investigators and the research assistant. It will be informed by principles of participatory action research, encouraging industry participants to share expertise and to help shape a programme of research in this area. The research assistant will help to design and run the workshop in collaboration with the co-investigators, and will be responsible for note-taking, transcription and qualitative data analysis.

Skills and experience

  • Demonstrable knowledge and experience of primary research methods involving human participants. This could include non-academic research experience, for example market research. 
  • Prior experience running workshops, focus groups, interviews or surveys
  • Use of tools to transcribe and analyse qualitative research data would be highly desirable.

Location
Hybrid (1 day on campus)

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 7th April 2026. Interviews will be held shortly after.

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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