OppsLink

Searchable Consulting Opportunities for LSE Academics

OppsLink Overview

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.

The projects span a wide range of disciplines and research areas, often involving complex challenges that require individual academic input or collaboration across multidisciplinary teams. If you see a project you like, please do express interest and we’ll follow up.

Access to OppsLink is restricted to members of the LSE academic community. If you're eligible and haven't yet registered, we encourage you to sign up and start exploring the latest opportunities.

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Irish Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency
Research to provide evidence-based research on the nature and extent of travelling undertaken by Irish Travellers, to help to understand potential demand for transient halting sites on an all-island basis. This research is commissioned on behalf of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and the Northern Ireland Housing Executive.
Sport Wales
Sport Wales is seeking to procure and implement a framework of capable and experienced research consultants to provide a range of research, insight and evaluation expertise. The Sport Wales intention is to procure a multi-supplier framework to provide ad-hoc insight, monitoring and evaluation consultancy as and when may be required. The successful suppliers that are placed on the framework will act as an extension to Sport Wales, providing additional support, capacity, resilience and expertise when required. Sport Wales is seeking diverse expertise from various sectors to enhance its collective ability to enhance its ability to generate and understand data, as well as monitor and evaluate programmes of work internally and across the sector.
WFD
WFD wishes to establish a panel of specialist service providers as part of a framework to provide technical services from time to time to support WFD’s capacity and capability. These services are expected to support WFD primarily as part of the Politics, Governance and Rights Centre of Expertise, which WFD is delivering in partnership with the FCDO. WFD have previously operated a framework for this service, which is due to expire on 31 March 2026. WFD is building on the learning from this framework to create an enhanced model of engagement with specialist expert partners who can support with WFD strategic objectives. Interested service providers can apply to be admitted to a Dynamic Market (DM) which WFD may use from time to time for any opportunities that sit above a threshold value of £207,720 (this figure may change from time to time in alignment with the requirements of the Procurement Act 2023). It is the intent of WFD to create a Preferred Supplier List (PSL) of interested...