Job Description

Ref Number

B16-01996

Professional Expertise

Research and Research Support

Department

School of Education (B16)

Location

London

Working Pattern

Part time

Salary

43,981-52,586

Contract Type

Fixed-term

Working Type

Hybrid

Available for Secondment

No

Closing Date

27-Jan-2026

About us

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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),



The CTUR originated, manages, and disseminates the Multinational Time Use Study (MTUS), which currently provides more than 2 million days of randomly sampled diary evidence from 30 countries over more than 65 years, and in partnership with the Universities of Maryland and Minnnesota makes time use data available via the IPUMS (Integrated Public Use Microdata Series) database.



It designs and tests new ways of collecting evidence of populations' time-use--most recently the Electronic Light Digital Diary Instrument (ELiDDI URL). It was responsible for the 2000-1 and 2014-15 UK tranches of the Harmonised European Time Use Survey (HETUS). It collected a sequence of 7 time -use diary studies spanning the COVID period



The SRI has undertaken to appoint a new Director for the CTUR over the next year, and the current co-Directors (Professors Jonathan Gershuny and Oriel Sullivan) will both continue to contribute to CTUR's research programme for at least the period of the current funding.

About the role

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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.



This post is initially funded until 31 July 2027



Job-share may be considered.



For further information on this post, please contact Carla Aylmore; email: c.aylmore@ucl.ac.uk

About you

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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.

What we offer

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As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:


41 Days holiday: 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days (pro rata for part time staff) Additional 5 days' annual leave purchase scheme (pro rata for part time staff) Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE) Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan Immigration loan Relocation scheme for certain posts On-Site nursery On-site gym Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service Discounted medical insurance

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

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As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.



We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce.



These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.



Our faculty holds an Athena SWAN Silver award, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality.