Postdoctoral Researcher - City Government Innovation; gn

To support research, analysis, and academic content development on city government, governance systems, and public sector innovation, we are seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher (gn) on a full-time basis (40 hours/week), with a contract initially limited until 30 June 2027, and the opportunity to extend for further years within the project duration.

The Postdoctoral Researcher will contribute to a major research and executive education initiative on city government innovation. Working with project faculty and international research partners at LSE Cities, they will conduct research on governance systems, city-level innovation and programme impact (70%), while also contributing to teaching materials, case development and selected teaching and facilitation activities (30%).

The position is particularly suited to candidates pursuing an academic career and offers opportunities to contribute to empirical research, indicator development, policy analysis and academic publications.

• Support the implementation of a research agenda on city government innovation, governance systems and institutional change in collaboration with academic colleagues and research partners.
• Develop and refine governance indicators and monitoring systems, supporting data collection, validation, reproducibility and comparative analysis across cities.
• Maintain and analyse national, regional and city-level indicator frameworks covering input, process, output and outcome dimensions.
• Conduct qualitative and quantitative research on city government innovation, administrative capacity, governance practices and programme impact, using AI- and LLM-enabled tools for data analysis, coding, synthesis and triangulation where appropriate and ethically permissible.
• Contribute to reports, policy briefs, academic publications, working papers and other policy-oriented outputs.
• Translate research findings into teaching cases, city examples, classroom exercises, curriculum materials and other applied learning formats for executive education.
• Support the preparation and delivery of academic content, including classroom facilitation, group-work supervision, synthesis of participant insights and academic evaluation.
• Contribute to internal learning, reporting and impact assessment by translating research and programme insights into clear written outputs.

To support research, analysis, and academic content development on city government, governance systems, and public sector innovation, we are seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher (gn) on a full-time basis (40 hours/week), with a contract initially limited until 30 June 2027, and the opportunity to extend for further years within the project duration.

The Postdoctoral Researcher will contribute to a major research and executive education initiative on city government innovation. Working with project faculty and international research partners at LSE Cities, they will conduct research on governance systems, city-level innovation and programme impact (70%), while also contributing to teaching materials, case development and selected teaching and facilitation activities (30%).

The position is particularly suited to candidates pursuing an academic career and offers opportunities to contribute to empirical research, indicator development, policy analysis and academic publications.

• Support the implementation of a research agenda on city government innovation, governance systems and institutional change in collaboration with academic colleagues and research partners.
• Develop and refine governance indicators and monitoring systems, supporting data collection, validation, reproducibility and comparative analysis across cities.
• Maintain and analyse national, regional and city-level indicator frameworks covering…