"Research Fellow"

UCL - Institute of Education / Centre for Time Use Research (CTUR)

This post is initially funded until 31 July 2027

Placed On: 7th January 2026

Closes: 27th January 2026

Job Ref: B16-01996

About UCL Institute of Education

Founded in 1902, UCL Institute of Education has been shaping policy and helping government, organisations and individuals navigate a changing society for the last 120 years. We embrace collaboration and excellence to create a future that is inclusive and just and have been ranked number one for education every year since 2014 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.

CTUR specialises in finding innovative applications for population time-use diary evidence in fields such as happiness, public health, transport, energy and environmental sustainability. It investigates social life, paid work patterns, work-life balance, family, gender and socio-economic structure. It contributes its expertise to a range of national and international agencies, currently including the UK Office of National Statistics, the UK Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence, the International Labour Organisation and the OECD.

CTUR is now funded, within UCL’s Social Research Institute, until 2027, by ESRC project Next Steps in Time Use Research (NeSTUR),

About the role

The Centre for Time Use Research (CTUR) is looking to appoint a Research Fellow. The successful candidate will take a leading role in the incorporation of new time diary datasets under the guidance of the MTUS manager. The appointee will focus particularly on surveys from Less Developed Countries, and on extending the MTUS activity classification as required for these materials.

The appointee will also work gaining access to survey materials from the Pacific Rim, leading the harmonisation of Chinese datasets into MTUS format, and if appropriate working with the Chinese counterpart to set up a remote access arrangement for external users.

It is expected that you will already have experience in time use research, as well as specific experience of work in this geographical region.

Job-share may be considered.

About you

The successful candidate will have Masters qualification or equivalent professional experience in a relevant discipline such as digital product development, human-computer interaction, UX-design, computer sciences. You will have knowledge of quantitative and qualitative methods appropriate to inform product development and conduct user testing. In addition, you will have excellent written and verbal communication, including documenting work and communicating technical and/ or scientific information to a wide range of audiences and have excellent IT skills and experience with relevant user-testing/design software.

Your application form should address all the person specification points and should clearly demonstrate how your skills and experience meet each of the criteria.

It is important that the criteria are clearly numbered and that you provide a response to each one.

Customer advert reference: B16-01996