Research Fellow in Road User Behaviour

3 weeks ago


Leeds, United Kingdom University of Leeds Full time


Research Fellow in Road User Behaviour

Are you an ambitious and enthusiastic researcher with an interest in human behaviour and advanced data analytics or modelling? Do you have a passion for tackling complex problems such as traffic safety and efficiency, from their theoretical inception to their real-world application? Would you like to collaborate with a team of researchers who are at the forefront of research in traffic psychology, and who have in recent years pushed the envelope towards understanding and modelling how human road users interact with each other, with automated vehicles, and with the infrastructure?

Road transport is central to society all over the world yet remains severely negatively affected by problems such as crashes and congestion. These problems not only affect travellers, but also generate social and economic losses to society, thus requiring measures in the form of traffic policies, infrastructure investments and novel technological solutions. In order to properly design and evaluate the effectiveness of such interventions, a better understanding of road user behaviour is required, building on real-world data and solid theoretical foundations. 

This Research Fellow position is a collaboration between the School of Civil Engineering and the University of Leeds Virtuocity centre for city simulation. Drawing on the broad cross-disciplinary makeup of our existing research, you will be able to shape the research topic according to your interests. You might for example choose to focus on analysing and learning from large datasets, or on computational modelling of human behaviour. 

Whether you are a traffic psychologist or a modeller with expertise in computational methods (perhaps you have worked in both areas), you will bring your knowledge and experience that will allow you to assert your independence while furthering an agenda that prioritises proper consideration of human behaviour for real-world applications. At the same time, you will become part of an international and cross-disciplinary team that brings different expertise and substantial experience in supporting young researchers in a key phase of their career.

As the University of Leeds is emphasising the importance of research impact, your input has enormous potential in solving significant challenges in traffic safety and efficiency and ultimately contributing to make informed decisions regarding design of policy, infrastructure, and technologies.

This role will be based at the university of Leeds campus and there is scope for it to be undertaken in a hybrid manner. We are open to discussing flexible working arrangements. 



  • Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom University of Leeds Full time

    Are you an ambitious and enthusiastic researcher with an interest in human behaviour and advanced data analytics or modelling? Do you have a passion for tackling complex problems such as traffic safety and efficiency, from their theoretical inception to their real-world application? Would you like to collaborate with a team of researchers who are at the...


  • Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom University of Leeds Full time

    Are you an ambitious and enthusiastic researcher with an interest in human behaviour and advanced data analytics or modelling? Do you have a passion for tackling complex problems such as traffic safety and efficiency, from their theoretical inception to their real-world application? Would you like to collaborate with a team of researchers who are at the...


  • Leeds, United Kingdom University of Leeds Full time

    Are you an ambitious and enthusiastic researcher with an interest in human behaviour and advanced data analytics or modelling? Do you have a passion for tackling complex problems such as traffic safety and efficiency, from their theoretical inception to their real-world application? Would you like to collaborate with a team of researchers who are at the...

  • Research Fellow

    3 weeks ago


    Leeds, United Kingdom University of Leeds Full time

    Are you an ambitious and enthusiastic researcher with an interest in human behaviour and advanced data analytics or modelling? Do you have a passion for tackling complex problems such as traffic safety and efficiency, from their theoretical inception to their real-world application? Would you like to collaborate with a team of researchers who are at the...


  • Leeds, United Kingdom University of Leeds Full time

    **Research Fellow in Travel Behaviour Analysis**: The Research project is affiliated to the Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions (CREDS). **To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact**: Professor Jillian Anable **Location**: - Leeds - Main Campus**Faculty/Service**: - Faculty of...

  • Research Fellow

    3 days ago


    Leeds, United Kingdom University of Leeds Full time

    **Research Fellow**: **Overview of the Role**: We wish to recruit a Research Fellow to manage and work on a new project called Impact of an Intervention on Inequalities in Overprescribing - the 3i-o study. The project is funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research through its Health and Social Care Delivery Research programme. The project...


  • Leeds, United Kingdom University of Leeds Full time

    **Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow First 1000 Days, Yorkshire**: **Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow** **School of Psychology** **First 1,000 Days, Yorkshire project** **Are you interested in improving the long-term development and life chances of children born into disadvantaged communities? Do you have experience working on interventional...

  • Research Fellow

    2 weeks ago


    Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom University of Leeds Full time

    Overview of the RoleWe wish to recruit a Research Fellow to manage and work on a new project called Impact of an Intervention on Inequalities in Overprescribing - the 3i-o study. The project is funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research through its Health and Social Care Delivery Research programme. The project aims to evaluate the impact,...

  • Research Fellow

    2 months ago


    Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom University of Leeds Full time

    Overview of the RoleWe wish to recruit a Research Fellow to manage and work on a new project called Impact of an Intervention on Inequalities in Overprescribing - the 3i-o study. The project is funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research through its Health and Social Care Delivery Research programme. The project aims to evaluate the impact,...

  • User Researcher

    1 month ago


    Leeds, United Kingdom SUMMER-BROWNING ASSOCIATES LIMITED Full time

    **Location**: Hybrid working - Leeds **About the role**: You will be responsible for plan, design and conduct user research sessions, including guerrilla testing, user testing, focus groups and workshops, persona creation and card sorting on a regular basis, testing both high-levelconcepts, and aspects of the service as it is designed and developed, and...

  • User Researcher

    3 days ago


    Leeds, United Kingdom Glean Full time

    Glean is passionate about helping our learners achieve their potential. In order to inform work for potential new product development, user segments, and markets, we are scaling our research capability to support our Product, Product Marketing, and UX teams in learning much more about what our current users love about Glean, and what other problems we can...

  • User Researcher

    2 weeks ago


    Leeds, United Kingdom Public Sector Resourcing Full time

    **User Researcher (Inside IR35)** **Contract Term: 6 months** **Contracting Authority: Homes England** **Location: Hybrid - **Coventry, Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, Bristol - once per month** Homes England, the government’s housing and regeneration agency, plays a central role in tackling the housing challenges the country now faces. We have the...


  • Leeds, United Kingdom BJSS Full time

    **About Us**: SPARCK is a Strategic Design Consultancy. We are a diverse group of 100+ researchers, strategists, designers and innovators across the UK and we are growing fast. We are part of BJSS, the UK's leading privately owned technology and business consultancy. This gives us a unique ability to not only design innovative solutions but deliver them...

  • Research Fellow

    2 weeks ago


    Leeds, United Kingdom University of Leeds Full time

    **Research Fellow**: **Do you have research expertise in Choice Modelling, Mathematical Psychology and/or Machine Learning? Are you interested in conducting methodological research to bridge these disciplines? Would you like to implement novel methodologies to advance the state-of-the-art transport models and make a real-world impact?** Understanding the...

  • Research Fellow

    2 weeks ago


    Leeds, United Kingdom University of Leeds Full time

    **Research Fellow**: **Do you have research expertise in Choice Modelling, Mathematical Psychology and/or Machine Learning? Are you interested in conducting methodological research to bridge these disciplines? Would you like to implement novel methodologies to advance the state-of-the-art transport models and make a real-world impact?** Understanding the...


  • Leeds, United Kingdom University of Leeds Full time

    **Research Fellow in Mobility Data Science**: **Are you an ambitious researcher interested in human mobility behaviour? Are interested in pushing forward the state-of-the-art in mobility data science, through large-scale mobility data? Do you want to further your career in one of the UK's leading research-intensive Universities?** We are delighted to be...

  • User Researcher

    3 days ago


    Leeds, United Kingdom Bailie Group Full time

    **About the role**: **We are looking for a self-motivated and experienced User Researcher **to work across a broad range of research projects including Retail, FMCG, Financial Services, Public Sector and Healthcare. Our projects are tailored to our clients’ needs and objectives, so you’ll be working on several different types each month. **As a User...


  • Leeds, United Kingdom Department for Work and Pensions Full time

    **Details**: **Reference number**: - 352778**Salary**: - £52,412 - £78,517**Job grade**: - Grade 7**Contract type**: - Permanent**Business area**: - DWP - Digital**Type of role**: - Customer Insight - Digital - Information Technology - Market Research**Working pattern**: - Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs...

  • Research Fellow

    2 months ago


    Leeds, United Kingdom University of Leeds Full time

    **Research Fellow**: **Are you an ambitious researcher looking for a new challenge? Do you have expertise in Mehri poetry and its relationship with the natural environment? Do you want to further your career by making an important contribution to this ambitious and exciting research project with the opportunity to work with leading researchers in the...

  • Research Fellow

    2 months ago


    Leeds, United Kingdom University of Leeds Full time

    Research Fellow Are you an ambitious researcher looking for your next challenge? Do you have an established background in molecular virology? Do you want to further your career in one of the UKs leading research intensive Universities? Two research fellow positions are available in the laboratory of , funded by a Wellcome Discovery Award. We...