Join the DSI

Our Faculty Affiliate Network is made up of over 100 LSE academics, with representation from 27 different departments, research institutes, centres and initiatives across the School.

Faculty Affiliate benefits:

• Community: The DSI provides Affiliates with opportunities to meet other researchers from across LSE; to network, communicate and engage in collaborative, interdisciplinary research that enhances discovery and innovation within the field of data science and AI as applied to social science questions
• Agenda setting: Affiliates play a key role in supporting the development of the DSI agenda and defining our research priorities. They are invited to actively participate in our events and collaborations
• Communications: DSI will share Affiliate research and activities through our newsletters and social media channels as well as on the DSI website
• Events: Affiliates are invited to propose events to be included in our annual programme of public, research and student events. Events could showcase their own work or highlight the work of others in the field
• Co-working space and hosting: Affiliates can book DSI meeting rooms and hot-desk space for their own use. They can also apply to have their research students located at the DSI with desk space and access to meeting rooms. We can also discuss hosting visiting collaborators
• Research support: DSI can provide advice about cloud computing options and provide some access to resources for testing purposes.

Any LSE staff member who wishes to be associated with DSI, and whose research and interests align with the mission of the Institute, are invited to join the DSI as an Affiliate.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis with no set deadlines. For more information about either scheme please contact dsi.admin@lse.ac.uk. Please note that PhD students are not eligible to become Faculty Affiliates, but they can join our PhD Affiliate Network.

Our PhD Affiliate Network brings together LSE doctoral researchers from a wide range of departments across the School who share an interest in data science and AI, whether applying them in their work, examining their social implications, or developing core methodologies.

PhD Affiliate benefits:

• Community: Social and professional networking opportunities
• Events: Invitations to range of events, including PhD seminars, work-in-progress talks, thematic workshops and careers events
• Access to DSI facilities: meeting rooms, seminar room, and hot-desking workspaces
• Communications: Support for work and activities from our events and communications team

We invite doctoral researchers, from all departments across LSE, who have an interest in data science and artificial intelligence to join the DSI PhD Affiliate Network; whether you are interested in applications for your research, are studying the social scientific implications of AI and data or are working on fundamental methodologies, please sign up.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis with no specific deadlines. If you have any further questions about the PhD Affiliate scheme, please email Emily Cruz on dsi.comms@lse.ac.uk

Executive Assistant to the DSI Senior Academic Team

• Salary from £36,513 to £41,565 pa inclusive with potential to progress to £44,468 pa inclusive of London allowance
• This is a fixed term appointment until 31 July 2027 in the first instance, with the possibility to extend subject to funding

As part of a friendly administrative team you will help to ensure the smooth operation of the Institute. You will provide high-level administrative support to the DSI Senior Academic Team. Your duties will involve managing incoming emails and correspondence, prioritising items of business, organising and maintaining diaries, scheduling in-person as well as remote meetings, making travel arrangements, and acting as an ambassador for the Senior Academic Team. This is a London campus-based role, with potential for some hybrid working or part-time.

The closing date for receipt of applications is Sunday 15 March 2026 (23.59 UK time). However we will review applications on a rolling basis and reserve the right to close the posting early when enough qualified applicants have been identified.

Occasional Research Assistants | Global Forum on AI and the Social Sciences

The LSE Data Science Institute is looking for up to six temporary, hourly-paid, postgraduate or PhD-level Occasional Research Assistants (ORAs) to begin working as soon as possible for up to 20 hours a week. The ORAs will play key role in delivering the flagship publication of the recently announced Global Forum on AI and the Social Sciences. In particular, the ORAs will carry out research and form part of the writing team for the first edition of the initiative’s “State of AI and Society” report. The report will be an authoritative, cross-disciplinary synthesis of existing research on the labour market implications of AI.

The closing date for receipt of applications is Sunday 29 March 2026. We encourage applicants to apply early as applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and the posting will close once enough qualified applicants have been identified.

Please note: These roles are only open to LSE PhD students and post-doctoral researchers based at LSE