Job Description

Duration: Fixed Term 2 years or available until 31/08/2025, whichever is sooner

Queen\'s Business School is seeking to hire a Productivity Research Associate to work on an ESRC-funded project on productivity in Northern Ireland. This post is fixed term for 24 months, starting 1st October 2023 (or as soon as possible thereafter). A key component of the post is to support the work of the Northern Ireland Productivity Forum.

You must demonstrate excellent knowledge of data collection, cleaning and processing data, and running statistical analysis and candidates with experience of research into productivity are particularly welcome. You will have a very good knowledge of the Northern Ireland economy and will undertake various research and business engagement tasks during the project with the support of the project\'s principal investigators.

The successful candidate must have, and your application should clearly demonstrate you have:

• An undergraduate or postgraduate degree in Economics or cognate discipline
• Experience of performing academic research in the area of productivity
• Experience of research on the Northern Ireland economy and business landscape
• Experience of survey research methodologies.

Please note the above are not an exhaustive list.

Fixed term contract posts are available for the stated period in the first instance but in particular circumstances may be renewed or made permanent subject to availability of funding.

Key Dates

Anticipated Interview Date: 18/09/2023

Further Information

Informal enquiries may be directed to Dr D Jordan at or Prof J Turner at

Information about the School can be found at

At Queen\'s our people are at the heart of everything we do. As a staff member you will become part of a vibrant organisational culture, which will provide you with the opportunity to achieve your full potential and enhance your career through a continuous focus on learning and development.

We offer an excellent employment package that includes:

• Great terms & conditions
• Pension schemes
• Flexible working by enabling you to design your working week in collaboration with your manager through a blend of remote and office working
• Family-friendly initiatives
• Career development opportunities
• Support for health & mental wellbeing
• Generous holiday entitlement of 8.4 weeks a year (made up of 23 days annual leave, 10 closure days and 9 bank holidays)

Further information on our attractive package can be found at

Queen\'s University is committed to promoting equality of opportunity to all. We have created an inclusive culture by establishing staff networks such as and which help us progress equality.

We also subscribe to Equality Charter Marks such as the Diversity Charter Mark NI in addition to Athena Swan. For further information on our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, please visit: ; and

For further information about the role including the essential and desirable criteria please visit or click to Apply.

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