Research Associate

About the roleThe Wellcome Trust has funded a team of researchers to find new ways to innovate, influence policy, and make a difference to staff and student participation in how we work together and empathise with each other.You will pro-actively help to shape the future direction of research culture at the University of Leicester. Our shared aim is to be...

Vacancy terms: Full-time, fixed term contract to 30 April 2026Advert closes midnight on: 12 May 2024About the roleAre you passionate about improving research culture across the Higher Education sector? The Wellcome Trust has funded a team of researchers to find new ways to innovate, influence policy, and make a difference to staff and student participation...

About the roleThis exciting senior role offers the opportunity for an outstanding academic to join the University of Leicester and the thriving team of lifestyle researchers within the Diabetes Research Centre and the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). The Leicester BRC is a >£26M investment by NIHR across the current 5-year cycle until April...

About the roleWe are seeking to appoint a Professor to join the Department of Respiratory Sciences to support our delivery of high-quality research and teaching, with a particular focus on Respiratory Immunology.The successful candidate will investigate fundamental mechanisms underlying respiratory diseases and use and/or establish different modelling...

**About the role**: As a Research Associate in the Respiratory Science department, you will be working both collaboratively and independently as part of a research team. Your research will involve studying the cellular and molecular mechanisms associated with lung diseases such as asthma, IPF and COPS. You will be using and establishing cellular models in...

**JOIN THE LOROS TEAM**: **Job description**: **Responsibilities & Requirements**: **Bank Research Associate** **Hourly Rate of pay - £19.29** **This post is to work on an ad hoc basis as required** LOROS Research is seeking to appoint an experienced Research Associate to work on a number of projects in palliative and end of life care focusing on older...

**About the role**: The Department of Genetics and Genome Biology are looking to appoint a Research Associate to investigate the importance of air pollution in promoting bacterial-host interaction. Our interdisciplinary research shows that air-borne particulate pollutants impact directly on bacteria to potentiate infection, irrespective of the effect of...

**About the role**: The University of Leicester is seeking to recruit a full-time Research Associate for the UKRI-funded project “Self-Learning Digital Twins for Sustainable Land Management” as part of a large team. The project will deliver intelligent AI solutions to support reducing UK greenhouse gas emissions from ruminant agriculture and degraded...

Are you passionate about improving research culture across the Higher Education sector? The Wellcome Trust has funded a team of researchers to find new ways to innovate, influence policy, and make a difference to staff and student participation in how we work together and empathise with each other. You will pro-actively help to shape the future direction...

**About the role**: The Department of Population Health Sciences is looking to appoint a Research Associate to develop statistical methods for disease mapping. In particular, this role will consist of further developing disaggregation regression models. Disaggregation regression is a statistical method that is useful when you have aggregated disease case...

This is a unique and exciting opportunity for an experienced neonatal nursery specialist to join the Research and Innovation workforce at University Hospitals of Leicester as an Associate Research Practitioner. You should be adaptable, flexible and show initiative. In addition you will need to show good communication skills, be able to liaise with all...

About the role Are you passionate about improving research culture across the Higher Education sector? The Wellcome Trust has funded a team of researchers to find new ways to innovate, influence policy, and make a difference to staff and student participation in how we work together and empathise with each other. You will pro-actively help to shape the...

About the role Are you passionate about improving research culture across the Higher Education sector? The Wellcome Trust has funded a team of researchers to find new ways to innovate, influence policy, and make a difference to staff and student participation in how we work together and empathise with each other. You will pro-actively help to shape the...

**About the role**: We are seeking to appoint a talented and enthusiastic researcher with experience in molecular microbiology research methods to join the thriving and dynamic research led by Dr Erol Gaillard. The Gaillard group is a multi-disciplinary research group involving clinicians, statisticians and epidemiologists. The group specialises in research...

About the role Are you passionate about improving research culture across the Higher Education sector? The Wellcome Trust has funded a team of researchers to find new ways to innovate, influence policy, and make a difference to staff and student participation in how we work together and empathise with each other. You will pro-actively help to shape the...

About the role We're looking for an experienced and motivated individual to join our interdisciplinary research and development team. As part of a research grant funded by the UK Space Agency (UKSA), you'll be working on rapid information extraction for environmental remote sensing on board spacecraft. Your work will involve applying lightweight...

About the role Are you passionate about improving research culture across the Higher Education sector? The Wellcome Trust has funded a team of researchers to find new ways to innovate, influence policy, and make a difference to staff and student participation in how we work together and empathise with each other. You will pro-actively help to shape the...

**About the role**: We are seeking a highly ambitious, flexible, and committed Post-doctoral Researcher to join Dr. Ning Wang’s lab within the Leicester Cancer Research Centre, Department of Genetics and Genome Biology at the University of Leicester. You will work on a project funded by the Prostate Cancer Research and jointly led by Newcastle University,...

Our group has long-standing leadership in the field of high energy astrophysical transients, exploiting a wide range of data from ground You will be expected to carry out independent and collaborative research for this project, and will also have opportunities to collaborate more widely within the Astrophysics Group (whose research programme includes star...

**About the role**: Specifically, you will be expected to: - Create and maintain a database for the alignment of gene transcripts and the human genome, ensuring relevant DNA sequences and metadata are also developed, and contribute ideas and support to the PI for the development of new themes/strands of research - Lead on integration of databases and...

**About the role**: You will be expected to carry out independent and collaborative research for this project, and will also have opportunities to collaborate more widely within the Astrophysics Group. **Additional information**: Applications for job share will be considered. Interview dates will be confirmed after the advert closure date. As part of the...

Your role would be to develop retrieval methods for land surface temperature based on Earth Observation thermal infrared data, and derive value added products for forest monitoring and agriculture monitoring. You will build Data Cubes from these remote sensing products to better characterise forest-climate interactions and crop stress. Collaboration with...

About the role The Wellcome Trust has funded a team of researchers to find new ways to innovate, influence policy, and make a difference to staff and student participation in how we work together and empathise with each other. You will pro-actively help to shape the future direction of research culture at the University of Leicester. Our shared aim is to be...

**About the role**: The School of Healthcare offers an exciting opportunity to join a newly established programme of research to develop and validate the Patient Experience of Deprescribing Questionnaire (PED-Q). The PED-Q is a novel tool to capture the experience of older adults and consultees having a medicine proactively deprescribed both in the clinical...