Research Associate: AI-Driven Scientometrics & NLP

Diversity Dashboard; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave (41+ days pro rata)

Pension scheme

Flexible working

Wellbeing support

Discounts

Job summary

University of Sheffield invites applications for a 12-month postdoctoral research position on the ESRC-funded metascience project. You will develop an automated NLP pipeline to extract metrics from full texts, support statistical analyses, and integrate structured data into the indicator workflow.

You will collaborate with researchers across four UK universities and oversee project communications. The role requires a PhD in relevant fields, strong Python and NLP experience, and ability to

Qualifications

• PhD (or equivalent) in data science, computer science, information science or related field.
• Strong Python programming for ML and NLP.
• Good basics in statistics.
• Familiarity with R is a bonus.
• Experience with LLMs or AI in research projects.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, presentations.

Responsibilities

• Develop automated pipeline for data collection, cleaning and processing of scientific articles.
• Statistically analyse results and write up for publication.
• Collaborate with project partners across four UK universities.
• Manage a network of researchers interested in assessment of healthiness of research outputs.
• Present at conferences and project meetings; contribute to dissemination and training.

Skills

Python programming

NLP

Statistical analysis

Communication

Collaborations

LLMs

Education

PhD in Data Science/CS/Info Science

Tools

R

Job description

University of Sheffield invites applications for a 12-month postdoctoral research position on the ESRC-funded metascience project. You will develop an automated NLP pipeline to extract metrics from full texts, support statistical analyses, and integrate structured data into the indicator workflow.

You will collaborate with researchers across four UK universities and oversee project communications. The role requires a PhD in relevant fields, strong Python and NLP experience, and ability to