Lecturer in Quantitative Social Science

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. Cohort & Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources (CLOSER)
4. Evidence for Policy & Practice Information Centre (EPPI)
5. Quantitative Social Science (QSS)
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.

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; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

Our faculty holds an Athena SWAN Silver award in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality.

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