Productivity Lab Research Assistant

6 months ago


Manchester, United Kingdom The University of Manchester Full time

**The Productivity Institute**

The Productivity Institute is a £32 million investment, made possible by a grant from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), focusing on improving productivity and living standards across the UK.

The Institute is headquartered at Alliance Manchester Business School at the University of Manchester, working in partnership with eight other institutions (University of Cambridge, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, University of Warwick, University of Sheffield, Cardiff University, University of Glasgow, Queen’s University Belfast, King’s College London) and the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence.

The Institute combines research, practice and stakeholder engagement to deliver sustained and inclusive growth by raising economic productivity. The focus will be on enabling policy and business leaders across the UK to improve productivity by engaging with regional productivity forums across the four nations of the UK and a national productivity panel.

**The TPI Productivity Laboratory**

On January 1st 2022, The Productivity Institute established The TPI Productivity Laboratory at the Institute’s headquarters at UoM.

The Productivity Lab is the Institute’s data science centre of excellence and operates as the “engine room” for all data-related activities at the Institute. The Lab acts as a nationwide (and internationally accessible) portal for external users to access productivity-related data and collaborate with others in person at the Institute’s headquarters or virtually. The Lab also provides data-based insights for researchers, policymakers and business strategists, employing analytical methods rooted in econometrics and data science.

**The Productivity Lab’s main objectives are to maximize the potential of the TPI’s research and engagement programmes by**:

- Providing strong central support and coordination around the collection, monitoring, processing and analysis of data that the institute and the projects it supports will create
- Joining data in a central repository for usage across the Institute and beyond
- Creating opportunities for augmented work by updating, scaling up or repurposing datasets

The Productivity Lab’s main functions are: (1) to process, categorise and aggregate data from the research projects to inform impact activities and identify opportunities for further research; (2) to identify generalisable business insights from firm-level research; (3) to provide “on-demand” capability to carry out experimental data-related studies around productivity; (4) to develop the empirical basis for The Productivity Institute’s flagship publications; (5) to deliver a ‘rapid response function’ which tailors knowledge and insights from the Institute in response to short-term requests from stakeholders across the country.

The Productivity Lab aims to be a place for data and measurement experimentation that brings all the productivity researchers and stakeholders at TPI and beyond working together.

**What you will get in return**:

- Fantastic market leading Pension scheme
- Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme
- Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays
- Additional paid closure over the Christmas period
- Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.

Our University is positive about flexible working - you can find out more here

Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.

Any CV’s submitted by a recruitment agency will be considered a gift.

**Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews**:
Name: Raquel Ortega-Argiles

**General enquiries**:
**Technical support**:
**Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.


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