Research Associate

3 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom King's College London Full time

Job description

This full-time post relates to funding received from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded Productivity Institute. The Postdoctoral Research Associate will work full-time on a 24-month project entitled “Skill, digitalisation and productivity in UK frontier firms’' focusing on original data collection and qualitative research in a sample of companies in leading R&D sectors.

The ESRC funded project will investigate three questions: i) how are firms adapting skill and innovation strategies to harness digital technologies (DTs) for productivity growth?; ii) how do DT-induced changes in collaborations with external organisations contribute to skill, innovation and productivity gains?; and iii) what are the automation and augmentation effects of DTs, and how are they distributed within the firm?

The Research Associate will be managed by the two Principal Investigators, Professors Marcela Miozzo and Damian Grimshaw at King’s College London. The RA will also join the network of RAs, PhDs and other academics working on projects funded by the ESRC Productivity Institute.

You should hold a PhD in the field of management (employment, innovation and/or strategy) and have a track record of conducting qualitative research and delivering presentations at academic conferences.

This ESRC funded post will be offered on a fixed-term contract for 24 months.

This is a full-time post.

Key responsibilities
- Background research: company and industry profiles; skill trends; digital technology use and development; productivity data;
- Co-development of theoretical framework;
- Identification and selection of the sample of ‘frontier firms’;
- Organisation of data collection (including securing company access, conducting interviews and documentation of preliminary empirical findings);
- Management of data in accordance with relevant KCL/ESRC data protection and ethics requirements;
- Thematic analysis of primary and secondary data;
- Planning of all project meetings;
- Participating in national and international conferences and workshops to present the results of the project to academic, policy and practice audiences; and
- Drafting of final project report and journal articles for submission.
- The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post._

Skills, knowledge, and experience

Essential criteria

2. Research experience conducting detailed case studies of organisations

3. Research expertise in digital technologies, skills and/or innovation and the challenges facing business

4. Excellent oral and written communication skills

Desirable criteria

1. Submitted a paper to a high quality refereed journal in a relevant field

2. Expertise in productivity research

Further information

Interviews will be held online via Teams on the 13th March 2023.


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