Casual Worker - LORIC Research Associate (CAS-1125-2026)

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:

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 ([email protected])

Interviews will be held on the afternoon of Monday 16th November and Tuesday 17th November.

Closing Date: 08 Nov 2026

Department: Casual

Salary: £16.19 per hour plus holiday pay