About us

The UCL School of Management is home to UCL’s business and management research and education programmes. The School has forged a reputation for world-leading research and teaching in the areas of innovation management, the creation and growth of technology-intensive organisations, business analytics, and entrepreneurship.

The research undertaken at the UCL School of Management has been rated as ‘world-leading’ and ‘internationally excellent’ in the Research Excellence Framework 2021 (REF), placing us 2nd in the UK for Business and Management.

The School is home to over 2,000 students, with more than 55% from outside the UK. The School’s faculty members also come from all over the world, with PhDs from Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Columbia, UCLA, North-Western, Cornell, Duke, Cambridge, and London Business School among others.

The UCL School of Management takes full advantage of being part of a world-leading university through its interdisciplinary outlook and builds on close collaborations in both research and education with other UCL departments, including computer science, engineering, economics, psychology, public policy, statistics, and medical sciences.

Further information about the School can be found here.

About the role

University College London’s (UCL) School of Management seeks to appoint a post-doctoral Research Fellow in the UCL School of Management. This post is research-only for 12 months. The start date can be any time from August 2025 to September 2025.

The post holder will perform research full-time within the research lab “Innovating Across Sectors”, in collaboration with and supervised by the Principal Investigator, Dr. Angela Aristidou. The post holder will not engage in research beyond this scope unless it is pre-approved.

The IaS research lab was founded in 2020 by Dr. Angela Aristidou at the UCL School of Management. The IaS lab consists of postdoctoral researchers, doctoral researchers, and faculty affiliates.

The Innovating Across Sectors program is embedded within the research group of: Strategy & Entrepreneurship https://www.mgmt.ucl.ac.uk/people so the postholder will also have access to all research activities organised by the group (weekly peer review group, seminars, etc).

Please refer to the attached job description for the duties and responsibilities of this role and how to apply for this specific post.

Salary Details - UCL Grade 7 £43,124 - £51,610

If you have any queries about the role or need reasonable adjustments or a more accessible online format to apply for this job, please contact mgmt-hrsom@ucl.ac.uk.

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About you

The successful candidate will need to evidence the following in their application:

• A PhD (or being close to PhD completion) in management, sociology, economics, organisation theory, or public policy. If the PhD has not been awarded before the employment start date, the post holder will be appointed at the Research Assistant grade 6B level.
• Demonstration of interest in the Innovating Across Sectors program of study and the work of the grant-holder
• Advanced knowledge and experience in quantitative and/or qualitative research methods and analysis
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

What we offer

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

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

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; LGBTQl+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion here.