Research Fellow (Reporting and Impact)

London School of Economics and Political Science; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 54,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Annual leave

Hybrid work

Training & development

Job summary

The London School of Economics and Political Science invites applications for a Research Fellow in Reporting and Impact with The Inclusion Initiative (TII). You will edit the Hub's company reports, lead engagement with companies, investors, regulators and networks, and ensure high-quality outputs from the data team.

You will work under Dr Grace Lordan, contributing to rigorous research on race inclusion and preparing findings for policy audiences.

Qualifications

• Completion of a PhD in a relevant social science discipline, or substantial industry experience.
• Demonstrable expertise in research on diversity and inclusion, including race and ethnicity in workplace settings.
• A record of producing high-quality written outputs for practitioner/policy audiences.
• Experience working with large datasets and understanding of how large language models are used to classify or annotate text.

Responsibilities

• Edit the Hub's programme of company reports and oversee stakeholder engagement and impact activity.
• Lead outreach to companies, investors, regulators, and practitioner networks.
• Quality assure outputs from the data team and publish up to 700 semi-automated company reports.
• Present findings to senior external audiences.

Education

PhD in relevant social science discipline

Substantive industry experience

Tools

Large datasets

Large language models (LLMs)

Job description

LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university

The Inclusion Initiative (TII)

Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science

Research Fellow (Reporting and Impact)

Salary from £53,949 to £62,160 pa inclusive with potential to progress to £69,073 pa inclusive of London allowance

Funding is available to support this position for 1 year, starting Autumn 2026

The Inclusion Initiative (TII) at LSE uses behavioural science and rigorous quantitative research to help organisations build more inclusive workplaces. Its Growth and Governance (G&G) Hub is dedicated to measuring and driving progress on race inclusion in large listed companies.

The Hub assembled every annual report published by FTSE 350 companies over a seven-year period and built the first large, expert-calibrated measure of how those companies write about diversity. Diversity and inclusion specialists hand-labelled more than 25,000 passages to create a ground truth; a LLM was then tested against that ground truth and tuned until it matched the experts as closely as the experts matched one another. That model now scores the full corpus, producing a comparable, independently-produced measure for every reports, the first published of which concern race and ethnicity.

Further information about The Inclusion Initiative is available at www.lse.ac.uk/tii .

Applications are invited for a Research Fellow to act as editor of the Hub's programme of company reports and to lead its stakeholder engagement and impact activity. You will work under the direction of Dr Grace Lordan.

You will work alongside the colleagues who generate the underlying data, quality assuring their outputs and producing, editing and publishing up to 700 semi-automated company reports. You will lead outreach to these companies and to investors, regulators, membership bodies and practitioner networks, and you will be accountable for the Hub's engagement and impact targets.

Candidates should have:

• Completion of a PhD in a relevant social science discipline, for example behavioural science, psychology, economics, management or sociology (or expect to have submitted their PhD thesis by the post start date) or substantive industry experience;
• demonstrable expertise in research on diversity and inclusion, including a strong grounding in race and ethnicity in workplace, labour market or organisational settings;
• a record of producing high-quality written outputs for practitioner/policy audiences;
• experience of working with large datasets, together with a working understanding of how large language models are used to classify or annotate text, sufficient to interpret their outputs, identify errors and describe the method accurately to non-technical audiences;
• excellent written and oral communication skills; and the credibility to present findings to senior external audiences.

We offer an occupational pension scheme, generous annual leave, hybrid working, and excellent training and development opportunities. The successful candidate is expected to be in the office in London a minimum of two days per week as chosen by the Director.

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The closing date for receipt of applications is 18 October 2026 (23:59 UK time). Regrettably, we are unable to accept any late applications.