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Research Associate - Statistician

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Posting date: 25 May 2026
Salary: £33,002.00 to £37,694.00 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 07 June 2026
Location: LA1 4YW
Company: Lancaster University
Job type: Temporary
Job reference: 0333-26

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Summary

We are looking to appoint a highly motivated and resilient individual with excellent communication skills, the capacity to work collaboratively as part of a team and the ability to solve problems creatively to join us as a Research Associate (RA) - Statistician within the group of Dr Isobelle Clarke in the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science in Linguistics and English Language.

This position is funded by the UKRI Future Leader’s Fellowship scheme. The successful applicant will join a team of researchers based at Lancaster University working on the project ‘A Multi-Dimensional Understanding of the Digital Far Right’.

The project has three core aims:

  1. To systematically identify how far right groups vary (what linguistic features and repertoires they share and how the most high risk content compares).
  2. To develop an innovative methodology to allow for (1).
  3. To provide training of (1) and (2) to law enforcement.

The applicant should hold an MSc (or BSc with 1st class honours) in statistics or a relevant field, have a background in multivariate statistical techniques, clustering techniques, sparse data and zero-inflation techniques and a critical academic interest in far right discourse.

This is a fixed term position at 1.0 FTE for a period of 12 months.

Lancaster University is highly ranked and research-led and situated near the historic city of Lancaster. The North West of England offers high standards of living, beautiful countryside, including the Lake District, and excellent national and international transport connectivity. See Jobs - Lancaster University.

For informal enquiries, please contact Dr Isobelle Clarke, Lecturer in Security and Protection Science; UKRI Future Leaders Fellow i.clarke@lancaster.ac.uk

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