Research Associate
5 months ago
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Research Associate in the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN). SITraN is a purpose built research facility which was opened in November 2010 by Her Majesty the Queen and awarded the Queen’s Anniversary prize for higher education in 2020 in recognition of having made an outstanding positive impact in patient’s lives from Neuroscience research. We were also awarded the British Neuroscience Outstanding Contribution Award in 2022. The Institute houses clinical and basic scientists from the Division of Neuroscience and the primary focus is research into neurodegenerative disorders such as Motor Neurone Disease (MND), Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease.
We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced postdoctoral research associate to join an exciting translational research project to assess potential new compounds as a pharmacological approach for neuroprotection in human cellular models of ALS/MND.
You will be joining the laboratory of Prof Dame Pamela Shaw. Your role will be focused on screening for new neuroprotective approaches using cellular models (primarily astrocytes and motor neurons) derived from different subtypes of ALS/MND patients.
The post is fixed term for three years and is available immediately.
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Research Associate
6 months ago
Sheffield, United Kingdom University of Sheffield Full timeThe Dynamics Research Group at the University of Sheffield is seeking to appoint a highly-motivated Research Associate in Structural Dynamics to carry out a research project on “new transfer-learning methods for population-based health monitoring”. The Research Associate will take a leading role in the development and delivery of their research relating...
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Transportation Insights Associate
6 hours ago
Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom Perspective Research Full timeAt Perspective Research, we're looking for a Transportation Insights Associate to join our team. As a Field Researcher, you'll play a key role in improving transportation services across the UK by collecting valuable insights from members of the public on board buses.You'll need to be able to work independently, managing your own shifts and completing...
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Research Associate
5 months ago
Sheffield, United Kingdom University of Sheffield Full timeAn exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN). You will have a strong background in molecular and cellular (neuro) biology with experience in a range of molecular and cellular biology techniques Your role will be embedded in very dynamic research groups. Team...
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Research Associate
5 months ago
Sheffield, United Kingdom University of Sheffield Full timeWe have an exciting new opportunity for someone to join the Clinical Infection Research Group (CIRG) as a postdoctoral research associate (PDRA) in the field of immunology. This position would suit a research associate with a strong interest in the field of infectious diseases immunology to be based between Zimbabwe and the UK. You will work on a project...
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Research Associate
5 months ago
Sheffield, United Kingdom University of Sheffield Full timeWe are seeking to appoint a Research Associate to support The Productivity Institute’s Regional Productivity Forum (RPF) in Yorkshire, Humber & the North East, based at Sheffield University Management School. The Productivity Institute (TPI), which is funded by the Economic & Social Research Council, brings together world-leading and UK experts from a...
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Research Associate
7 months ago
Sheffield, United Kingdom University of Sheffield Full timeHow does the brain encode sensory information and form associative memories? Andrew Lin’s lab at the University of Sheffield is seeking a Research Associate to study these questions in the fruit fly Drosophila. We study memory using a range of methods, such as in vivo two-photon calcium imaging, electrophysiology, fly genetics, behavioural experiments,...
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Research Associate
5 months ago
Sheffield, United Kingdom University of Sheffield Full timeWe have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic individual interested in biology and machine learning to join the BBSRC funded project ‘Unlocking the complexity of organismal colour patterns using artificial intelligence’ as a Research Associate. The project will make use of recent advances in machine learning and computer vision to...
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Research Associate
7 months ago
Sheffield, United Kingdom University of Sheffield Full timeThe Department of Economics has an international reputation for practical and real-world economics. Our researchers advise government departments in the UK and internationally. The Department of Economics is seeking to appoint a Research Associate to provide research assistance to departmental research groups on a range of research projects. Over the...
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Research Associate
5 months ago
Sheffield, United Kingdom University of Sheffield Full timeAn exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Research Associate within an internationally recognised research group in a vibrant and stimulating environment at the Bateson centre, Firth Court. We’re one of the best not-for-profit organisations to work for in the UK. The University’s Total Reward Package includes a competitive salary, a generous...
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Research Associate
7 months ago
Sheffield, United Kingdom University of Sheffield Full timeWe have an exciting opportunity in the School of English to work as a Research Associate on an exploration of Kazuo Ishiguro’s style using corpus linguistic methods. The research findings will contribute to a book about the novelist and there is scope for collaboration in writing relevant sections and/or other publications if desired. This role will offer...
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Research Associate
7 months ago
Sheffield, United Kingdom University of Sheffield Full timeBringing fresh and diverse perspectives, you will integrate into the Division of Neuroscience, one of the three constituent divisions of The School of Medicine and Population Health, and join a multidisciplinary team of researchers within the Division and the associated NIHR Sheffield Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). As a world leading centre for research...
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Research Associate or Research Assistant
7 months ago
Sheffield, United Kingdom University of Sheffield Full timeApplications are invited for a Research Assistant/Associate to work on theoretical and computational analysis of MHD waves generation by vortical drivers, the interaction of multiple vortex tubes located within intergranular lanes and how they contribute to the middle and upper solar atmosphere dynamics. Plasma flows in the Sun’s photosphere have the...
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Research Associate
7 months ago
Sheffield, United Kingdom University of Sheffield Full timeWe have an exciting opportunity in Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine and Population Health for a post-doctoral research associate with a passion for cancer research looking to use their primary tissue culture and microscopy skills to potentially directly impact future patient treatments. You will join the Ex Vivo Group working but also work closely with...
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Research Associate
5 months ago
Sheffield, United Kingdom University of Sheffield Full timeWe are seeking to appoint a clinical Research Associate working in Imaging in Pulmonary Hypertension, this is a great opportunity for an individual with an interest in imaging to work in Academic Radiology at the University of Sheffield, a centre of excellence for cardiopulmonary imaging in pulmonary hypertension. This exciting post will see the research...
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Research Associate
6 months ago
Sheffield, United Kingdom University of Sheffield Full timeAre you a critical disability studies researcher? Have you worked to promote disability research? Are you a researcher with a lived experience of disability, or a disabled researcher? We are recruiting a Research Associate who will be based in the School of Education and iHuman (an interdisciplinary research institute at the University of Sheffield) to take...
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Research Associate
6 months ago
Sheffield, United Kingdom University of Sheffield Full timeTwo Research Associate positions are available in the laboratory of Prof. Walter Marcotti funded by a Wellcome Trust Investigator Award. The remit of the work is to investigate the in vivo mechanisms regulating signal processing in the developing and ageing mouse cochlea in vivo, and how these influence central auditory neuronal pathways. This role will also...
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Research Associate
6 months ago
Sheffield, United Kingdom University of Sheffield Full timeThe Department of Psychology is looking for an enthusiastic Research Associate. In this role you will provide specialist research support to the Principal Investigator, Professor Richard Bentall, undertaking and overseeing the first phase of a programme of research into developmental risk factors for and the emergence of severe mental illness (SMI; bipolar...
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Research Associate
7 months ago
Sheffield, United Kingdom University of Sheffield Full timeYou will integrate into the Department of Neuroscience, which is currently one of the three constituent departments of The Medical School. The post represents an exciting opportunity to combine computational and bioinformatic approaches with programs of high-quality research generating multi-omic data within the Department of Neuroscience and the associated...
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Research Associate
7 months ago
Sheffield, United Kingdom University of Sheffield Full timeYou will join the School of Allied Health Professionals, Nursing and Midwifery, working as a Research Associate on the research project: ‘Breaking the Care Cycle: Parenting after leaving care’. You will join Dr Ellis and a Project Steering Group to explore the perspectives of parent care leavers and to develop alternative narratives around leaving...
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Research Associate
6 months ago
Sheffield, United Kingdom University of Sheffield Full timeWe have an exciting opportunity for a Research Associate to join the Mechanisms of Health & Disease research group within the School of Clinical Dentistry, contributing to the development of a novel self-administered, needle-free delivery platform for mRNA vaccines. As part of this ambitious research programme, you will investigate polymersome-mediated mRNA...