Research Associate

The roleThe role is to assist with the METEOR and COMET research projects, which can be thought of as two phases of a single science studies research and engagement project whose aim is to improve the use of applied meta-research evidence in the decision-making processes of research institutions that affect their research culture, indirectly enhancing the...

The roleWe are seeking an enthusiastic and self-motivated (Senior) Research Associate to undertake an experimental programme developed to understand the durability and alteration of minerals and materials relevant to the disposal of radioactive waste.This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the development of the post-closure safety case for the...

The roleAn enthusiastic and highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Associate is required to add their expertise to a team investigating immunological mechanisms that link sight-threatening uveitis and inflammatory arthritis. We have identified cytokine-regulated mechanisms that determine the pathogenic potential of T helper cells that orchestrate tissue...

The roleThis is an exciting opportunity for a Research Associate / Senior Research Associate position to join the Diverse-Ability Interaction Lab (Dive Lab), led by Dr Oussama Metatla, within the Bristol Interaction Group (BIG) at the University of Bristol.In the Dive Lab, we study interactions between disabled and non-disabled people to design, engineer and...

Job summaryThis role works as part of the National Institute for Health and Care Research's (NIHR) Research Delivery Network (RDN). The Regional RDN South West Central (RRDN) is hosted by UHBW.Working together the two RRDN Health & Care Research Directors (one Medic and one Nurse, Midwife or Allied Health Professional) will be the senior officers responsible...

Job summaryThis role works as part of the National Institute for Health and Care Research's (NIHR) Research Delivery Network (RDN). The Regional RDN South West Central (RRDN) is hosted by UHBW.Working together the two RRDN Health & Care Research Directors (one Medic and one Nurse, Midwife or Allied Health Professional) will be the senior officers responsible...

The roleApplications are invited for the role of Postdoctoral Researcher at the UKRI Innovation and Knowledge Centre (IKC) Transforming Net Zero with Ultrawide Bandgap Semiconductor Device Technology (REWIRE) to provide leading contributions to power electronic semiconductor devices. The role-holder will provide professional expertise and contribute creative...

The roleThe LEAP Digital Health Hub is an EPSRC-funded partnership that aims to catalyse innovation, research, and collaboration in digital health in the South West of England and Wales. LEAP brings together five leading regional universities and Health Data Research UK (HDRUK) plus a network of 60+ partners in industry, charities, NHS trusts and social care...

The roleThe post-holder will be required to work on a project entitled 'NFYA: a novel, potentially druggable, mechanosensitive mechanism of cardiac fibrosis' under Dr Mark Bond's supervision. The project is funded by the British Heart Foundation for 3 years and will involve characterization of the role played by the NFY transcription factor as a...

The roleThe Particle Physics group of the University of Bristol ) UK, seeks a Research Associate or Senior Research Associate to join its machine learning R&D team. The successful applicant will be the lead developer for ML workflows on newly released FPGA-based ML -acceleration platforms, including the Xilinx Versal series. The key objectives of this...

The roleThis is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Research Associate (SRA) to join the MyWorld project. The role of this Senior Research Associate will be to explore the use of Immersive Technologies to support our understanding and relationship with the natural world in new ways, through the co-ordination and development of experimental immersive...

The roleThis post is to join an HFSP funded project 'Evolution at the plant apex: identifying steps enabling a major organismal radiation'. An interdisciplinary project involving collaboration with co-Is in Edinburgh (Sandy Hetherington), Ghent (Tom Beeckman) and Kyoto (Rieko Fujinami), the project aims to identify morphological, developmental and genetic...

The roleThe School of Earth Sciences seeks to appoint a PDRA for 2 years to detect and classify the spatio-temporal patterns of volcano deformation using the rapidly growing global archive of satellite imagery. The researcher will work with closely with the COMET LICSAR processing team and Bristol's Visual Information Laboratory to develop new approaches to...

The roleA postdoctoral position is available under the guidance of Dr Thomas Gorochowski in the School of Biological Sciences (University of Bristol) in collaboration with Dr Thomas Ouldridge (Imperial College London) as part of a multidisciplinary and multi-institutional grant called EEBio, which investigates ways to improve the robustness of engineered...

The roleOne Postdoctoral Researcher position (Research Associate) in soft robotics and tactile robotics is available to support the activities of the University of Bristol and Bristol Robotics Laboratory on the £6 million ISCF Research Centre for Smart, Collaborative Industrial Robots (CESCIR) ).The role will develop soft, tactile and dextrous robotic...

The roleWe seek an enthusiastic and creative Postdoctoral Research Associate who will add their expertise to a team investigating the cellular persistence of the human retroviruses HIV-1 and HTLV-1 and novel therapeutic approaches to eliminate their viral sanctuaries. The work of the selected candidate will be aimed at elucidating the role of cellular...

Contract Type: Fixed term (9 months)Purpose of the jobThe main purpose of this role is to oversee funding allocations and/or funded awards and in knowledge exchange policy development – assimilating evidence that is both qualitative and quantitative and producing detailed options set out in briefings.ContextThe post holder will join the Knowledge Exchange...

Contract Type: Open Ended (permanent)Purpose of the jobThe main purpose of this role is to oversee funding allocations and/or funded awards and in knowledge exchange policy development – assimilating evidence that is both qualitative and quantitative and producing detailed options set out in briefings.ContextThe post holder will join the Knowledge Exchange...

The roleThis Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) position will combine a mixture of genetic part design, massively parallel reporter assays, nanopore sequencing, and the development of new tools and methods for engineering cyanobacteria for environmental bio-restoration applications. It will build on advances within our team to develop methods that can...

The roleWe are seeking an enthusiastic and dedicated postdoc to work on our Leverhulme funded project investigating the Evolution of Animal Play.This interdisciplinary project will use broad phylogenetic comparative data across taxa with ambitious, in-depth behavioural studies of wild dolphins to shed new light on the origins of animal play and its functions...