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Searchable Consulting Opportunities for LSE Academics

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OppsLink is a platform that connects academic experts, PhD students, (early career) researchers and alumni with funded consulting opportunities. These range from UK and local government to the European Commission and international organisations. It offers a searchable database of current tenders that are open for applications.

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Pipeline - Development Advisory Framework (DAF)
FCDO
Publication date: 28 sept The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) intends to procure a Development Advisory Framework (DAF) to succeed the existing Evaluation and Advisory Consultancy and Delivery Services 2 (EACDS2) Framework. The DAF is expected to provide access to a range of suitably qualified advisory, analytical and professional services to support the design and development of FCDO’s international development portfolio, including but not limited to, scoping studies, business case development and input into new and innovative thinking across the range of FCDO priorities. The framework is expected to be accessible across FCDO and potentially other UK Government departments using ODA and Non-ODA funds.
Development and International Programmes
ESPON ARISE - Adaptive Resilience and Inclusive Strategies for Europe’s Structurally Declining Territories
ESPON EGTC
The project will develop a coherent framework for understanding how territorial cohesion and resilience operate under conditions of persistent low growth, demographic contraction and structural decline. Based on European-wide territorial mapping, it will elaborate typologies of territories facing persistent low growth and demographic contraction, and produce territorial maps of vulnerability, adaptive capacity and resilience. Through comparative qualitative case studies across different territorial contexts, it will document adaptive territorial practices and governance innovations. Finally, the project will offer practical policy guidance suggesting how cohesion policy, territorial governance and resilience planning frameworks may need to evolve in response to persistent low growth and structural territorial contraction.
Urban Planning, Infrastructure and Transport Housing and Built Environment
Strengthening Organisational Capacity, Accountability and Sustainability of UNICEF supported Women-Led Organisations Implementing GBV Programmes in South Sudan
UNICEF
UNICEF has now issued a Request for Proposals for the provision of Strengthening Organizational Capacity, Accountability and Sustainability of UNICEF supported Women-Led Organizations Implementing GBV Programmes in South Sudan. This tender will be run through the UNICEF e-submissions system. By clicking on the blue ‘Express Interest’ button in the UNGM tender notice, the full UNICEF e-submission system instructions to bidders document (including instructions on how to access the tender documents and submit an Offer) will be automatically emailed to the ‘contact persons’ included in your UNGM registration. Alternatively, the full UNICEF e-submission system instructions to bidders document is publicly available on the UNICEF supply internet pages here: https://www.unicef.org/supply/index_procurement_policies.html . In the tender management site, if you navigate to the documents tab and opt in to confirm your intention to submit a Bid – you will then see the mandatory placeholders for...
Environment and Energy Finance
Methodological Framework for estimating and reporting Greenhouse Gas Emissions avoided or removed by EU-Funded interventions under the 2028-2034 MFF
European Commission, DG BUDG - Budget
The project aims to support the European Commission in developing a coherent methodological framework to estimate and report annual greenhouse gas emissions avoided or removed as a result of EU-funded interventions based on Annex I of the proposed Performance Regulation for the 2028–2034 Multiannual Financial Framework. The work involves reviewing and updating existing methodologies, developing new calculation methodologies for relevant output indicators, assessing additional intervention fields where such methodologies could be applied, and preparing technical factsheets that document formulas, assumptions, data sources and scientific justification.
EU Institutions and Programmes Organisations and Management Consulting Environment and Energy
AI adoption across DCMS sectors
DCMS
DCMS are seeking to commission “what works” research into the impact and effectiveness of AI adoption interventions within DCMS sectors. We are interested in two broad sets of questions. The first is analysis of how businesses within DCMS sectors that are in the process of adopting AI achieve this, the challenges they face and the opportunities and benefits realised. We anticipate this will be explored through an ethnographic study that observes how individuals and teams actually use AI tools in their jobs. The second set of questions is what policy interventions work best to support businesses that wish to adopt AI, which we anticipate will be answered by testing hypothetical interventions through randomised control trials (RCTs). Bidders will be able to propose alternative methodologies if they think they suit these questions better; the core need for this project is to produce direct, robust evidence of what works, as opposed to what is self-reported (e.g. through interviews,...
Technology and Innovation Media, Communications and Creative
Research on Children’s Real-Life Experiences with Relational and Companionship AI in China
UNICEF
The UNICEF China office, working with UNICEF Office of Strategy and Evidence – Innocenti (Italy), will drive research to generate urgently needed evidence in China on how different children engage with generative AI, with a focus on relational and companionship AI, and its impact on children’s development, well-being and learning. This evidence will be used to create actionable recommendations to the government and companies to ensure AI policies and practices actively support children’s well-being. A two-and-a-half-year project will be undertaken involving a mixed methods study that captures children’s real-life experiences with relational and companionship AI in China, delivered in two iterative phases: qualitative consultative workshops with children to establish children’s interactions and perceptions of relational AI systems, followed by a quantitative survey with children to dig deeper into the key findings and enable targeted recommendations. UNICEF China will be the overall...
Education and Skills Media, Communications and Creative
Developing Human-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence Guidelines for the UK
Natural England
To develop and carry out research that examines the suitability and applicability of IUCN guidance for managing human-wildlife conflict and promoting coexistence in the UK, informed by the experiences, perspectives and needs of key stakeholders.
Research, Evaluation and Surveys Organisations and Management Consulting
Research relating to the impacts of the minimum wage, 2-year projects (open call)
Low Pay Commission
The Low Pay Commission (LPC) invites tenders for new or innovative research in relation to the National Living Wage (NLW) and the National Minimum Wage (NMW). This invitation to tender is aimed at larger pieces of research which will add substantial, new insight on the impacts or workings of the minimum wage. We will commission up to three projects under this call. Projects will deliver final results in Autumn 2028. We have also published a call for smaller-scale projects (LPC 2026/01), which would final deliver results by September 2027. The deadline for bids under 2026/01 is 1 September 2026. Please carefully consider which is most suitable for your project. The Low Pay Commission is a non-departmental public body that advises the government about the National Minimum Wage (NMW), including the National Living Wage (NLW) and the minimum wage rates for young workers and apprentices. We are responsible for evaluating the effects of the NMW and NLW and making recommendations on future...
Research, Evaluation and Surveys