PGR Placement Opportunity - Focus Facilitation Ltd

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postgraduate Researcher to work on a project with a prominent start up business in Nexus.

Focus Facilitation Ltd is a start-up and member of the Nexus Community. Focus Facilitation engage with business stakeholders to surface and model key data points for them.  Currently a single person enterprise in a pre-trading research phase, various key questions that are pivotal to the direction and success of the enterprise remain unanswered and therefore open to participation from volunteer research.

Focus Facilitation has developed a new and potentially breakthrough digital research platform. Two key uncertainties are:

o   How will the application be received by users in academia

o   How will the application be received by users in business.

These uncertainties require skilled investigation, using actual research exercises using the new research platform, which this placement project will inform. Please see the full details attached.

This placement would be 130 hours in total to start in January 2021. You would be expected to commit a minimum of 5 hours per week over 26 weeks. The successful candidate will be provided a bursary of £1950

If you are interested in applying, please send your CV, a one page Cover Letter detailing your experience and how you meet the required skills and an email confirmation from your supervisor that they are happy for you to undertake a placement to h.e.crow@leeds.ac.uk by Monday 7^th December at 12 noon.

You can view and download the full placement details below: