Research Associate

Campaign Lab; Greater London; Hybride; GBP 34 000 - 52 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Training & development budget £500/yr

Co-author with academic partners and/或

Opportunities to develop tech skills (

Small, friendly team in politics,研究,科技

Résumé du poste

Campaign Lab in London is seeking a Research Associate to help the progressive movement learn what works in campaigning. This early-career role welcomes candidates who recently completed a PhD in political science or related fields.

You’ll design and run studies, translate findings for campaigners and politicians, and collaborate with technologists to embed research into tools and pilots. Expect growth through real projects and field partners.

Qualifications

• A PhD counts as research experience and is welcomed.
• Strong applied statistics skills including sampling, weighting, and significance testing.
• Experience designing or running field experiments or evaluations.
• Training in quantitative and/or experimental methods or survey design.
• Ability to explain research to non-specialists and write clearly.
• Familiarity with UK progressive ecosystem and campaign groups.
• Experience analysing text, including computational text methods or AI/LLM tools.

Responsabilités

• Design, run and analyse research projects using rapid literature scans, RCTs, A/B tests, surveys, interviews, and piloting.
• Balance rigour with speed and practicality for each question.
• Clean, analyse and interpret data while maintaining research integrity.
• Turn findings into clear outputs for campaigners, organisers and politicians.
• Write up research for blogs, briefings and events.
• Collaborate with partner organisations and technologists to embed research into tools and pilots.

Connaissances

Applied statistics

R or Python

Field experiments

Experimental methods

Quantitative methods

Clear writing

Organisation

Adaptability

Campaign Lab mission

Text analysis

Qualitative methods

Partnerships

Formation

PhD in political science or related field

Economics/psychology/data science/compsci with politics interest

Outils

R

Python

Description du poste

Contract: 12-month fixed term contract with possibility of extension, full-time (or close to full-time)

Location: Farringdon, London. Hybrid, three days a week in the office

Reports to: Deputy Director

About Campaign Lab

Campaign Lab is a network of technologists and campaigners focused on campaign innovation. Founded in 2018, we work through a small paid team, a committed group of volunteers, and a wider network of campaigners, technologists and organisations.

We are an experimental, research-driven organisation. We research, invent, test and embed effective tools and practices to strengthen progressive campaigning. Our work includes applied research, pilot projects, hackdays, and partnerships with elected officials, campaigners and third sector organisations.

About the role

We are looking for a Research Associate to help the progressive movement learn what works in campaigning. It is an early-career role, ideal for someone who has recently finished a PhD in political science or a related field.

This is applied research outside academia. Your work will shape what campaigners and organisers actually do. You might design a survey experiment one month and explain its findings to a campaigner the next.

You will bring methodological training. We will give you real projects, partners in the field, and support to grow into a rounded applied researcher.

What you’ll do

Research design and delivery

• Design, run and analyse research projects using a variety of methods such as rapid literature scans, randomised controlled trials, A/B tests, surveys, qualitative interviews, process evaluations, quantitative analysis and piloting. We don’t expect you to be expert in all of these on day one.
• Choose the right approach for each question, balancing rigour with speed and practicality
• Clean, analyse and interpret data, and keep research quality and integrity high

Translation and communication

• Turn findings into clear, practical outputs for people without a research background, including campaigners, organisers and politicians
• Write up research for blogs, briefings and events

Partnerships and collaboration

• Work with partner organisations, many without their own research capacity, to design and run studies
• Work alongside our technologists to build research into tools and pilot projects

What we offer you

• Research that reaches the field quickly and changes practice
• Opportunities to co-author with academic partners and present at conferences
• A training and development budget of £500 a year
• Opportunities to develop tech skills quickly with partners from Newspeak House
• A small, friendly team working at the meeting point of politics, research and technology

Who we’re looking for

Your PhD counts as research experience. We don’t expect a track record beyond it.

• A PhD in political science or a related field (such as economics or psychology), or a quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, physics, data science or computer science with a clear interest in politics, completed or submitted
• Strong applied statistics skills, including sampling and weighting, significance testing, and building robust measures from large, messy, unrepresentative datasets
• Working knowledge of R or Python
• Experience designing or running field experiments or evaluations
• Training in quantitative and/or experimental methods, or survey design
• A practical interest in research that gets used, not just published
• Clear writing, and the ability to explain research to non-specialists
• Good organisation, with the ability to juggle several projects
• A willingness to change tracks quickly and adapt your projects and plans as the context changes
• Commitment to Campaign Lab’s mission and to progressive politics
• Experience analysing text, including computational text methods or using AI/LLM tools for classification
• Familiarity with the UK progressive ecosystem: parties, trade unions, civil society and campaign groups
• Experience of qualitative methods
• Experience working with partners outside academia

We particularly welcome applications from people under-represented in politics, technology and research.