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Research and Innovation Division
Research Officer (Research and Innovation Policy)
Salary from £44,143 to £52,749 pa inclusive with potential to progress to £56,607pa inclusive of London allowance (pro-rata)
Funding is available to support this position from 16th November 2026 until 31st March 2027. The post is 0.8FTE (28 hours per week).
LSE’s award-winning R&I Evidence and Analysis Service is seeking to appoint a Research Officer to work on the UKRI funded impact project ‘From Prototype to Practice: Operationalising Responsive Mode Funding Evidence for UKRI and DSIT’. The project is a follow-on grant from the research project ‘What is unique about responsive mode funding?’ which used UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) administrative data to examine nearly 20 years of responsive mode funding across research councils, interrogating the size and shape of research projects over time, the diversity of academic and non-academic partners, the range of outputs and outcomes, and explored the extent of divergence between responsive mode projects and thematic/targeted awards. Both the current and earlier project are collaborations between research management professionals based at LSE and computer scientists at the University of Edinburgh.
This role will involve designing and organising stakeholder engagement activities with colleagues in UKRI and the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (DBIST) to extract the policy and practice possibilities from the earlier research findings. It will culminate in the generation of two reports which summarise the practical uses of the research findings for UKRI and DBIST. The post will sit in the R&I Evidence and Analysis team within the Research and Innovation Division. There will be opportunities to interact with a diverse range of partners from research managers at LSE to project team members working in high-performance computing at the University of Edinburgh and civil servants working within both research councils and a central government department.
Candidates should have experience of translating academic research, experience of cross-team working and experience of organising and facilitating engagement events.
We offer an occupational pension scheme, generous annual leave, hybrid working, and excellent training and development opportunities.
For further information about the post, please see the how to apply document, job description and the person specification.
To apply for this post, please go to www.jobs.lse.ac.uk. If you have any technical queries with applying on the online system, please use the “contact us” links at the bottom of the LSE Jobs page. Should you have any queries about the role, please email c.daley@lse.ac.uk.
The closing date for receipt of applications is 18 November 2026 (23.59 UK time). Regrettably, we are unable to accept any late applications.
