Lincoln Bishop University 
Lincoln, United Kingdom Offer Summary
Lincoln Bishop University’s Lincolnshire Open Research and Innovation Centre (LORIC) is recruiting Casual Workers as LORIC Research Associates. Based in Lincoln, United Kingdom, this role offers a salary of £16.19 per hour on fixed-term contracts until March 2027. The position involves providing research and data support for diverse projects with businesses and charities across Greater Lincolnshire. Responsibilities include identifying research needs, conducting desk-top research, analyzing open and primary/secondary data, and writing reports to drive innovation and policy development. Key focus areas encompass Education (including SENDI), Health & Social Care, History, Heritage, Culture, Organizational Development, Leadership, Management, and AI. Candidates from business, AI, education, applied social sciences, humanities, or community engagement backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Interviews are scheduled for November 16th and 17th.
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Project Description
The Lincolnshire Open Research and Innovation Centre (LORIC) at Lincoln Bishop University is seeking a pool of researchers to provide research and data-related support for a range of projects and contracts with businesses, charities, and other organisations across Greater Lincolnshire and beyond.
Post holders will engage with academics and organisations to identify and understand research and data needs, identify a suitable course of action, and carry out research, data analysis and report writing with a view to driving knowledge exchange, innovation and organisational/policy development.
The nature of the support to be provided to organisations and projects is diverse but has a core focus on research, evaluation, and data analysis, and may include desk-top research, use of Open Data sets, primary and secondary data analysis, and market research,
Key themes of research are anticipated to be:
- Education (Including SENDI)
- Health & Social Care
- History, heritage and culture
- Organisational development
- Leadership and management
- AI
Posts will be based at the Lincoln Bishop Business School, but will work across the wider faculty, including in the Institute for Health, and the School of Applied Humanities.
These posts are for casual contracts and are fixed term until the end of March 2027. We welcome applications from those with a range of research disciplines, however, most relevant to these roles are business, AI, education, applied social sciences, applied humanities, and community engagement.
Informal enquires about the post should be made via email to Kay Purle, LORIC Project Manager (kay.purle@bishopg.ac.uk)
Interviews will be held on the afternoon of Monday 16th November and Tuesday 17th November.
