Research Assistant: AI Adoption & Organisational Change

University of Leicester; Leicester; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 38,000; Part time

Job summary

University of Leicester is seeking a part-time Research Assistant to support the Centre for Finance, Governance and Sustainable Growth. The role involves data handling, econometric analysis, and contributing to journal articles and conference outputs.

Applicants should be at least a second-year PhD student in finance/economics with a Master's degree, and have strong quantitative skills; programming in STATA, Python, R or Matlab is a plus. Salary is pro-rata with Grade 6 scale.

Qualifications

• You will be at least a second-year PhD student in finance, economics or a related subject and hold a Master's qualification.
• You will bring relevant research experience, strong econometric skills and practical experience of applying research techniques to produce high-quality outputs to deadline.
• Programming skills in STATA, Python, R or Matlab would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Acquire, evaluate and interpret data for the research project.
• Undertake high-quality analysis and critical evaluation.
• Contribute to development and application of research methods.
• Assist with collection, storage, cleaning and analysis of project data and literature searching.

Skills

Econometric skills

STATA

Python

R

Matlab

Education

Master's qualification

Second-year PhD student (finance/economics)

Tools

STATA

Python

R

Matlab

Job description

University of Leicester is seeking a part-time Research Assistant to support the Centre for Finance, Governance and Sustainable Growth. The role involves data handling, econometric analysis, and contributing to journal articles and conference outputs.

Applicants should be at least a second-year PhD student in finance/economics with a Master's degree, and have strong quantitative skills; programming in STATA, Python, R or Matlab is a plus. Salary is pro-rata with Grade 6 scale.