This opportunity is for Postgraduate Researchers who began receiving ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) funding in or after Autumn 2024 to undertake a Research in Practice (RinP) placement as part of their studentship.
Key Placement Information
Closing Date
Thursday 30th April 2026
Start Date
Monday 1st June 2026 (or as soon as possible thereafter. It is flexible)
Duration
3-months (or part-time equivalent)
Full-time or Part-time
Flexible
In Person, Online or Hybrid
Online
Job Sector
Public
Project Areas
Research, Data
How to Apply
Submit a CV, cover letter and the ESRC funding permission form
Applicant Eligibility
This opportunity is only accepting applications from Postgraduate Researchers who began receiving ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) funding in or after Autumn 2024 to undertake a Research in Practice (RinP) placement as part of their studentship.
Project Description
The Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP) is an interdisciplinary research institute at University College London (UCL). It develops new frameworks for measuring and advancing prosperity beyond GDP.
IGP’s Productivity Research Programme examines a central question: does livelihood insecurity constrain productivity, and if so, through what mechanisms?
This placement offers the opportunity to develop original research within this programme. Three research themes are open for investigation, and the researcher will focus on one or two depending on their interests and expertise.
1) explore the relationship between livelihood insecurity and productivity across different populations, geographies, or time periods. Questions include whether the relationship holds across different labour markets, how it varies by gender or region, and whether policy interventions such as welfare reform alter the trajectory.
2) investigate the mechanisms linking insecurity to reduced economic participation and output. This includes the role of financial stress on cognitive bandwidth, the interaction between housing costs and labour supply, and the compounding effects of care responsibilities on earnings.
3) connect these findings to the broader beyond-GDP measurement and policy agenda, asking how conventional productivity metrics fail to capture the costs of insecurity and what alternative frameworks can inform policy at national and international level.
The researcher will have access to a range of data sources and will be expected to identify and work with the datasets best suited to their research questions.
Access full details and application instructions here: UCL Institute for Global Prosperity - Productivity
Download the ESRC placement and funding permissions form
Please note this opportunity has been advertised across multiple Doctoral Training Partnerships (DTPs).
