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Research Associate in the Political Feasibility of Energy Demand Transformation

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1118602


UCL


05/10/2026


Other - See Job


10 hours


Smart Casual

Pay


£20.92


£3.92

Description

Role

Unitemps are recruiting for a Research Associate in the Political Feasibility of Energy Demand Transformation within the Geography department. The role is to work the date of Monday 5th October 2026 and will run until Friday 5th February 2027 part time at 10 hours per week. Payment is set at £20.92+ holiday pay per hour and the role will be HYBRID based.
 
The UCL Department of Geography is a research-led department with a strong international reputation, offering innovative degree programmes at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
 
A Research Assistant is needed for 10 hours/week for four months to support co-productive, administrative and analytical work for the Energy Demand Research Centre Policy Co-Production Panel and to help complete data gathering and analytical tasks for another EDRC Governance theme project on the relational halo of Citizen’s Panel participation.

Duties and responsibilities
Policy Co-Production Panel

  • Supporting recruitment and retention of, and communications with, panel members including maintenance of the LinkedIn page
  • Supporting the organisation of panel meetings and recruitment of EDRC speakers
  • Supporting development and analysis of meeting transcripts and development of resources and outputs in response to panel needs
  • Liaising with other EDRC members to support the panel

Relational halo of Citizen’s Panel

  • Support for a review of existing academic and grey literature to determine the state of the art on relational impacts of Citizen’s Panel participation, in collaboration with Governance theme leads
  • Supporting the development of research questions, data gathering through semi-structured interviews, data processing and analysis of interview data

Skills and experience

  • A Masters degree in a relevant social science field
  • Ability to work independently as part of a larger team
  • Experience in workshop or co-productive settings
  • Experience working with external stakeholders
  • Experience with qualitative research methods and analysis including interviews and thematic analysis
  • Ability to communicate well in writing, verbally, and through social media
  • Strong organisational abilities to support meeting scheduling, participant spreadsheets and other administrative tasks
  • Good working knowledge of the UK energy policy ecosystem

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 Wednesday 23rd September. 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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