Ref Number
B16-02161
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-Jul-2026
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.
The Social Research Institute, formerly the Department of Social Science, in the UCL Institute of Education, is one of the leading centres for social research in the UK. It is home to seven internationally renowned research units:
1. Centre for Longitudinal Studies
2. Centre for Time Use Research
3. CLOSER (Cohort & Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources)
4. EPPI Centre
5. Quantitative Social Science
6. Social Science Research Unit
7. Thomas Coram Research Unit
Our strategy is to exploit and promote our key characteristics:
- All our centres are multidisciplinary, with staff drawn variously from sociology, social policy, demography, economics, psychology, anthropology and social statistics.
- We are working across centres/units to promote cross-methodological, problem-solving interdisciplinary research on particular themes where we have outstanding scholarship and critical mass, e.g. gender, families, work, inequalities, migration, bio-social interactions.
- We are tackling major social challenges, e.g. on how societies support family wellbeing, gender equality and economic prosperity.
- We have a central role in sociological studies at UCL, with staff working on empirically and theoretically rich research.
- Our work is increasingly transgressing the boundaries of academic social science, taking us into life sciences (health, social epidemiology, biosocial research), natural sciences (information science, environmental science) and the humanities (peacebuilding, creative arts).
- Our staff actively engage with public priorities in policy and practice (as seen in our many Impact Case Studies) and with networks for knowledge exchange.
- We are active in the collection and curation of data as a public resource and in the development of research methods as well as in substantive research.
- We have a globally central position in longitudinal research, time use research, and systematic reviews.
More than 180 academic, research, teaching, technical and professional service staff work in the department. In addition to the seven research centres, it is home to three undergraduate degrees, three master’s programmes and a thriving doctoral community.
We are looking for a Research Fellow who will work on the Wellcome Trust funded project, ‘The Mental Health Costs of Statelessness (MH-COST): A case study of Pakistani Bengali Adolescents and Young Adults’. This multi-method project is led by Dr Humera Iqbal; and the Research Fellow will take a lead role in conducting the second and third phases of the project, which comprise the quantitative analysis of a survey exploring the experiences of mental health amongst stateless adolescents and young adults in Pakistan; which represents the largest to date globally to study these issues with a stateless population and the development of interventions, public engagement and writing.
We are looking for someone with relevant social scientific expertise in mental health, psychiatric epidemiology, social psychology, quantitative social science, quantitative psychology or similar area. The post-holder will have excellent quantitative research skills, and experience of data collection and analysis via online survey methods. The post-holder will take a lead role in analysing survey data and disseminating the survey data via high-quality journal and conference outputs. They will also be involved in the administration and analysis of creative workshops with participants in Phase 3 of the project.
This post is funded by the Wellcome Trust and available for 19 months on a part-time basis: two days per week 01 July 2026 to 28 February 2027 and three days per week 01 March 2027 to 31 January 2028. The FTE of this role will be: 0.4 FTE 01 July 2026 to 28 February 2027 and 0.6 FTE 01 March 2027 to 31 January 2028. For further queries email [email protected].
You will have a PhD in the social sciences, including psychology, social psychology, mental health, quantitative psychology, psychiatric epidemiology or a related area of study. Evidence of scholarship which contributes to SRI research including work of international profile, with a strong record of peer-reviewed publications. Demonstrable experience of conducting quantitative research in the fields of mental health alongside either migration, citizenship studies and social identity.
Your application form should address all person specification points and 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.
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.
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.
