Research Assistant

3 weeks ago


University of Warwick, United Kingdom University of Warwick Full time

Fixed term contract for 12 months, 1.0 FTE.
We are seeking to recruit a research assistant to work on an ESRC funded project, concerned with understanding productivity across supply chains. This element is part of a larger project concerned with the drivers of productivity, working with Warwick Business School and its partners as part of The Productivity Institute.
You will work primarily with Associate Professor Mehmet Chakkol and Professor Nigel Driffield on analysis of firm level data collected through databases such as Bloomberg as well as FactSet data, to map supply chains across different industries. This will also involve collaborating on another element of the project concerned with productivity analysis. You should have a strong background in one (or more) of the following areas:

- Supply chain management
- Computer Science and Programming
- Statistics and computing
- Productivity analysis and economics

If you are near submission or have recently submitted your PhD but have not yet had it conferred, any offers of employment will be made as Research Assistant at the top of level 5 of the University grade structure (£32,411). Upon receipt of evidence of the successful award of your PhD, you will be promoted to Research Fellow on the first point of level 6 of the University grade structure (£33,348).

**JOB PURPOSE**

This sits within a wider project that seeks to explore the drivers of productivity for the West Midland Economy, with a skills and inclusive growth element at University of Birmingham and a work package on supply chains with Warwick Business School. Prof. Nigel Driffield is the principal investigator of the overall project, ensuring that the individual elements speak to each other.

The essential question that this element of the project seeks to answer is how productivity is impacted by the structural configurations of the supply chains. The supply chain of a firm plays a vital role in determining its overall productivity. Little is known about this in the current literature, and so addressing this in a wider context will be the focus of this work. The job is essentially concerned with data collection for this purpose.

**DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Research and scholarship**

1. To primarily collect, sort and clean data from Bloomberg SPLC and similar databases.

2. Present data in a way that it can be used and understood by academics and other stakeholders.

3. To attend and present data at academic and professional events, and to contribute to the external visibility of the department.

4. To attend frequent project monitoring activities at local partners and at the University of Warwick.

**Administration and Other Activities**

1. Participate in relevant professional activities, such as meetings and presentations.

2. To engage in continuous professional development.

3. Ensure compliance with ethical handling of data and health and safety in all aspects of work.

4. To contribute to the management of the project, through documenting research and engaging in regular reviews.


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