Work with us

There are many ways to work with LIDA, from business insights to data storage and analysis, to staff development and student recruitment.

Run short-term data insights projects

with the support of experienced data researchers and analysts, to get answers to key business objective questions.

Store, analyse and collaborate on your data in a secure platform

with support from our expert Data Analytics Team, providing peace of mind for you and your stakeholders.

Train up your staff with our CPD accredited courses

to invest in your people for increased staff retainment, satisfaction and performance.

Discover future talent

by speaking or exhibiting at our of our many data events across the year to develop your workforce pipeline and future-proof your business.

Run short-term data insights projects

	3 month project	6 month project	3–4 year project
The team	1x full-time MSc student, and their supervisory team.	1x full-time Data Scientist, and their supervisory team.	1x full-time PhD student, and their supervisory team.
How it works	You set the brief. We provide regular updates and a final report from the student and their academic supervisors.	You set the brief and work with one of our data science experts to create a project plan. Join team briefings for regular updates from the data scientist, who will also provide a final report at the end of the project.	For longer term research. You work with the academic supervisors to set the initial brief and remain engaged to help steer and inform the project throughout its duration.
Submit project proposals	December 2025	February 2026	December 2025
Project runs	April – August 2026	October-March 2025-26 or April-September 2026	October 2026
Cost	c. £14,750	c.£22,000	c.£75k (£25k a year, flexible payment options are available)
Find out more	Register your interest	Register your interest	Register your interest

Store, analyse and collaborate on your data in a secure platform

LASER is a cloud-based Trusted Research Environment (TRE) that provides a secure environment for your organisations sensitive and confidential data to be stored, analysed and collaborated on.

The platform is DSPT and ISO27001 accredited and supports AI and machine learning focussed research.

Receive end-to-end support from our specialist, in-house Data Analytics Team who work on a range of LASER projects from supermarkets to the NHS.

In 2023, LASER and the team served over 200 users, 70+ projects, more than £70million of research and more than 7TB of data (that's the equivalent of 5 months of continuous HD video!)

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Train up your staff with our CPD accredited courses

Anyone can attend our training and development courses, join as an individual or a group for a discount.

Identified a skills gap in your team / organisation? We can design a custom-made training course to address your challenges and strengthen your capability.

Location – these can be run remotely, at your premises or at LIDA’s premises.
Cost – booking as a group is better value for money than individuals attending courses separately (minimum group size 6–10 people).

Book a one day course for 10 people from £250 per learner or a two day course for 10 people from £450 per learner.

Discover future talent

Partner with our annual Data Science Careers Fair

Become an exhibitor or speaker for the UoL Data Science Careers Fair, to reach engaged students on the look out for roles in data and tech.

Follow in the footsteps of big names such as Google, KPMG, Channel 4, Asda, NHS England, Bank of England, Visa and many more. Complete the form and a member of the team will be in touch to discuss further with you.

The next Data Science Careers Fair takes place in Spring 2026.

It is free to speak or exhibit at this event.

Try before you hire

Our award-winning Data Scientist Development Programme provides data solutions to industry and public sector organisations, whilst training up early career data scientists.

We recruit early career graduates and career changers for 12 months to work on two 6-month projects each, involving real-world data and challenges provided by external project teams, to produce high-impact analytical solutions. You provide the question, we provide the answer.

Through a combination of bespoke interpersonal skills mentoring for professional development and technical skills training through applied data science, we equip our data scientists with the knowledge and self-directing abilities that will enable them to thrive in the data workforce.

Many of our data scientists have been hired by their project partner once the project has ended after developing a strong relationship and knowledge of the organisation whilst delivering real, tangible results for the organisation to use in real business cases and project delivery.

Find out more about the DSDP