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Research Support Officer Intern- Research Culture

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1119310


Liverpool John Moores University


26/10/2026


Other - See Job


15hrs per week.


Smart Casual

Pay


£13.45


£1.62

Description

Role
********Ringfenced to LJMU PhD Students *******

 
Research and Innovation Services is recruiting a part-time Research Support Officer intern to support a research culture project: "What Is Research Time? A qualitative project exploring how LJMU academics define, experience and use research time and what this reveals about research culture". 
 
The project will use semi-structured interviews and validation focus groups and will produce an internal LJMU report and an accessible sector-facing report. The internship will provide practical experience across the lifecycle of an applied qualitative research project.

Duties and responsibilities

  • The intern will support a focused literature and environmental scan;
  • Maintain participant recruitment and sampling records; coordinate interviews and focus groups; 
  • Check and anonymise transcripts; maintain organised project files; and assist with initial qualitative coding and thematic summaries. 
  • They will help prepare validation focus groups and contribute to referencing, drafting and the visual presentation of the internal and external reports. 
  • The intern may observe or cofacilitate interviews and, following appropriate training and agreement, may conduct selected interviews using the approved topic guide. 
  • They must follow all agreed ethics or governance, consent, confidentiality, anonymisation, secure storage and data-handling procedures. 
  • Methodological decisions and final responsibility for the research outputs will remain with the project leads.

Skills and experience
Essential:

  • Must be enrolled as a PhD student at LJMU.

Skills.Essential: 

  • An understanding of qualitative research principles gained through study, work or equivalent experience;
  • Essential: ability to read, synthesise and summarise academic or professional material; strong organisation and attention to detail
  • Essential: clear written and spoken communication
  • ;Essential: confidence using Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams
  • ;Essential: sound judgement and commitment to confidentiality
  • Essential: the ability to work independently while contributing constructively to a smallteam.

Experience.

  • Essential: knowledge of higher education, research culture or academic workload
  • Essential: experience of reference management, accessible report design or simple data visualisation.
  • Desirable: Experience of interviews, focus groups or qualitative coding;
  • Desirable: Experience using NVivo or another qualitative analysis tool; participant or event coordination; handling sensitive or identifiable information;
  • Training and supervision will be provided.

Location
LJMU

Additional information

*******Ringfenced to LJMU PhD Students ONLY******

 

Applications close on Thursday 8th October 2026. 

 

Interviews anticipated for the week commencing Monday 12th October.

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