Birmingham University in United Kingdom invites applications for vacant Research and Faculty Positions, one of the largest and most diverse employers in the United Kingdom.
Be the First to ApplyIn 2025 we will celebrate 125 years since a Royal Charter was granted by Queen Victoria to create our University. We are proud to announce that one of the ways we are celebrating this important milestone is by making a significant investment in our research, appointing 100 new Anniversary Fellows and 25 new Anniversary Chairs.
Be the First to ApplyIn 2025 we will celebrate 125 years since a Royal Charter was granted by Queen Victoria to create our University. We are proud to announce that one of the ways we are celebrating this important milestone is by making a significant investment in our research, appointing 100 new Anniversary Fellows and 25 new Anniversary Chairs.
Be the First to ApplyWe seek to recruit in the area of Data Management for AI. The candidate will have research background and interests broadly at the intersection of Big Data, Data Science, and AI, and will be expected to drive a research agenda exploring methods for simultaneously optimising data and models. This includes, for instance, extending explainability features to include the entire data-to-decisions pipelines, AI-based evidence synthesis and safeguarding AI.
Be the First to ApplyThe post is to develop software required for tooling integration for autonomous robots operating in dynamic and uncertain environments. The successful candidate will join the Hybrid Planning for AI and Robotics (HyPAIR) lab in the context of the Horizon EU CONVINCE project (CONtext-aware Verifiable and adaptIve dyNamiC dEliberation).
Be the First to ApplyThe successful candidate will be responsible for designing and performing the biological experiments aimed at clarifying how GPCR signals are encoded in space and time, collect the data to train the automation and analysis systems, analyse the imaging and modelling data and interpret the results. They will also contribute to the testing and validation of the platform as well as the design and testing of the user interfaces and image analysis tools.
Be the First to ApplyWe are seeking a highly motivated scientist to join our interdisciplinary team at the University of Birmingham to develop “An AI-driven Automated Platform for High-Throughput 5D Fluorescence Imaging and Data Analysis Applied to Cell Signalling and Drug Discovery”.
Be the First to ApplyThis postdoctoral scientist will conduct research on the impact of action type (handwriting and typing), kinematics, and training regime on the neural basis of planning and executing skilled movement sequences. They will utilise multimodal neuroimaging (concurrent EEG-MEG) and measurements of muscle activity and motor behaviour (e.g., EMG, force tracking).
Be the First to ApplyWe are recruiting three Research Assistants to join the SHADE project team, focusing on integrating advanced data analytics, energy systems, and healthcare sustainability. The positions involve contributing to the development of a data-driven platform that aims to reduce carbon emissions and operational inefficiencies in NHS hospitals.
Be the First to ApplyWe are especially looking for candidates with interest and experience in the theoretical study of high-energy astrophysical systems, particularly making use of simulations. The hired postdoc will primarily focus on the modelling of tidal disruption events, but will also be encouraged to gain independence and pursue their own ideas on related topics.
Be the First to ApplyWe are seeking a postdoctoral researcher to join the Skilled Action and Memory lab (https://sites.google.com/site/kkornysheva), led by Katja Kornysheva, Associate Professor at the Centre for Human Brain Health and the School of Psychology, University of Birmingham. This position is part of a project funded by a UKRI Future Leadership Fellowship award, “Dissecting the Neural Code for Skilled Action Planning and Coordination” (£2.1M) for 4 years, with a potential grant extension of up to 3 years.
The postholder will provide the research administrative support for the ACE multi-site randomised controlled trial based in the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Birmingham. The study is under the direction of Dr Afroditi Stathi (Chief Investigator (CI) and the Trial Manager (TM) is Dr Janet Withall.
The Director of Education Technologies and Learning Environments is a new role for the University of Birmingham that will provide critical leadership and service delivery expertise in developing our teaching and learning physical and digital infrastructure. In line with the University’s ambition to be ranked as a top 50 institution globally by 2030, the Director of Education Technologies and Learning Environments will be responsible for delivering an innovative and cohesive approach to the development, maintenance and optimal utilisation of technologies supporting education delivery. This will include helping to shape how technology is used in education delivery, and responsibility for defining how we develop and use our teaching and learning spaces across the University.
Be the First to ApplyWe welcome applications for a research fellowship in post-quantum cryptography to work with Dr Christophe Petit on the EPSRC Fellowship funded project “Post-Quantum Cryptography: a Cryptanalysis Approach”. We are particularly keen on applications with a quantum cryptanalysis or quantum algorithm background.
The Data Manager provides administrative support to the multi-disciplinary collaborative Trial research group(s) engaged in conducting trials. The Data Manager is responsible for the clinical research data set for one or more clinical trial(s) protocols which are designed to improve the treatment and care of patients. Day to day principal duties include obtaining, entering and cleaning data from participating sites.
Be the First to ApplyYou will contribute to a range of research, teaching and administration. In addition you will be expected to demonstrate academic citizenship, developing and maintaining generous, mutually respectful and supportive working relationships with all staff and students, and ensuring the way you carry out your role impacts positively on how others can carry out theirs.
Be the First to ApplyFractureFix is a UKRI EPSRC funded International Centre to Centre Award concerned with research investigating secondary osteoporosis and bone fracture. It comprises a collaboration between the University of Birmingham (Lead organisation), ETH Zurich, Switzerland and Uppsala University, Sweden. Within this consortium, the role aims to elucidate the fundamental material and structural properties of bone in these pathologies. This data will be used in complex models predicting fracture which will be developed at ETH Zurich.
Be the First to ApplyFractureFix is a UKRI EPSRC funded International Centre to Centre Award concerned with research investigating secondary osteoporosis and bone fracture. It comprises a collaboration between the University of Birmingham (Lead organisation), ETH Zurich, Switzerland and Uppsala University, Sweden. Within this consortium, the role is to investigate novel interventions to either prevent or reduce the effects of fracture.
You will be responsible for leading a team to deliver excellent customer service in any one of those areas/outlets and for planning and delivering to key performance indicators once the budget has been set. Our Food and Beverage Managers provide proactive support to our Senior Management Team and to the Food and Beverage team’s success
Be the First to ApplyThe main purpose of the role is to design and manage University building and special projects to deliver the University’s programme of internal and external adaptations to ensure a more accessible and diverse estate for students, staff and visitors.
The post holder will be a key member in maintaining the highest levels of cleanliness and service delivery in all areas of the Vale Village. Duties to include the cleaning of void rooms, accommodation blocks, stores and bin areas as well as assisting with water hygiene checks, recycling and waste management and ensure all Health and Safety requirements for the site are adhered to.
Be the First to ApplyThis position will suit a candidate with good experience working within a laboratory environment. The role holder will ensure that expert in-class support is provided to ensure that all aspects of practical classes run well, and that the student experience is high.
The post holder will develop, deliver and evaluate a central and embedded offering of research skills, including baseline support for literature searching, research data management and open access, citation metrics and online identity management, scholarly communication including open research, digital and information literacy, as well as a broad range of postgraduate academic skills.
The role is located in the Timetabling & Examinations subdivision of Registry. The team are responsible for the planning and collating of information and allocating students to both the University’s teaching timetable & formal examination timetabling systems.
The post holder will be required to carry out computational materials chemistry research focussed on understanding and predicting novel wide band gap oxides, and in examining defects processes in these materials. Computational work will be performed in collaboration with experimental efforts, and so the post holder will also present results and contribute significantly to an interdisciplinary feedback loop.
You will play a crucial role in supporting researchers within the Colleges of Life & Environmental Sciences and Engineering & Physical Sciences in delivering grants and research contracts support. Joining our College Hub Research Support Team, you will have the opportunity to work alongside other experienced professionals and receive comprehensive training in competitive bid development.
TrendingCareers Network is looking to recruit 4 Graduate Support Student Assistants who are committed to supporting 2024 graduates in accessing appropriate employability services in order to improve their graduate outcome. The Graduate Support Student Assistants will be working as part of the 2024 Graduate Projects team.
Be the First to ApplyThe post holder will provide professional research project management support to the Director and management team of ISTEMMiCS, Principal Investigators and academic staff at all career stages to ensure establishment, development and delivery of a thematic research strategy across a portfolio of national, international research and networking projects.
The post holder will be expected to take a lead role in Project Management for the EPSRC Manufacturing Research Hub in Robotics. The post holder is an integral member of the School’s research Professional Services staff which is led by the Head of Operations and the Research Administration Manager.
Be the First to ApplyThe aim of the project is to construct a prototype of a new type of medical imaging instrument based on RF/Microwaves and ultrasound, and to apply it for the characterisation of tissue specimens, with a view to visualising and quantifying their fat content. The project will also involve using additional optical, ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging techniques.
The purpose of this role is to support Worklink in developing and maintaining a student casual work service, working to place students across a range of University departments and roles on campus and provide end-to-end administration support for student casual workers.
Be the First to ApplyYou will contribute to a range of research, teaching and administration. In addition you will be expected to demonstrate academic citizenship, developing and maintaining generous, mutually respectful and supportive working relationships with all staff and students, and ensuring the way you carry out your role impacts positively on how others can carry out theirs.
This is an exciting time to be an engineer at the University of Birmingham. Following the creation of the School of Engineering in 2016, which brought together the disciplines of Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Electronic, Electrical & Systems Engineering, we are in Phase 2 of our renaissance. We are investing significantly in people and infrastructure – our new £65m signature building and our £28m UK Rail Research and Innovation Network (UKRRIN) Centre of Excellence for Digital Systems have recently opened their doors. In addition, our world-leading £26M National Buried Infrastructure Facility opened in 2020.
This post is a fantastic opportunity for a passionate sport psychology practitioner to join the University of Birmingham and work with sport scholars on the Elite Dual Career Athlete Pathway (EDCAP) and TASS (Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme). They will feed into a multi-disciplinary team of sport science and medicine with the aim of supporting our dual career athletes in their transition from junior to senior international sport.
Specifically, this role aims to support employed researchers on the OncoEng programme. You will contribute to the lab management and administration, design and delivery of research tasks, CAD/CAM design of components and aid with the day-to-day delivery of research conducted within the labs. A passion for solving complex problems is also required.
Be the First to ApplyThe Centre for Human Brain Health (CHBH) Operations Manager will be the senior administrative officer of the CHBH. The appointee will play a central role in supporting the Directors in the day-day management of the Centre and will report to the College of Life and Environmental Sciences.
TrendingThe IT Service Desk is the public face of the University’s IT Services department. The Service Desk handles everything from individual technical problems to system outages. They are a single point of contact for our users – helping them to easily find solutions, request help, and contact other IT teams. The post holder is primarily responsible for learning how to analyse new issues and requests. This includes taking phone calls from users or helping them in-person, as well as online using live chat and our web-based contact form. They are empowered to resolve most queries, and accurately assign more complicated or time-consuming issues to other colleagues.
With this consortium the role aims to develop and implement new techniques to assess long term fatigue and fracture mechanisms within metastatic infiltrated spinal vertebrae and how these fractures may be prevented using novel minimally invasive implants.
The candidate will support the development of new projects and grant applications to investigate how to improve outcomes in maternity care. We will be undertaking mixed methods research across healthcare settings in the maternity pathway from antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care and, in particular examining processes and outcomes of care when mothers cross boundaries or interfaces between services, or areas of concern that are identified by stakeholders.
Be the First to ApplyThe Functional Lead is responsible for recommending how the University’s use of the system can be optimised requiring a close alignment with the business-as-usual-elements of the University.
Be the First to ApplyThe Head of Netball is responsible for delivering and developing the University’s netball programme, working with the next generation of emerging talent to succeed across our teams.
You will contribute at a senior level to research, teaching, and administration. In addition, you will be expected to contribute to academic citizenship, likely to be demonstrated through generous, mutually respectful and supportive working relationships with all staff and students.
The Senior Research Software Engineer (RSE) will provide a technical software development and support service to academics from a wide range of disciplines. As a senior member of the Research Software Group, the RSE will help shape Birmingham’s delivery of research software services. This role is primarily technical, however a minority of the RSE’s time will be spent line managing a small team of other RSEs in collaboration with the RSE Service Lead.
We are seeking a Research Associate to join a 12-month project funded by the British Medical Association to explore exercise habits in South Asian women and to develop new, culturally relevant routes to information and knowledge.
The Research Fellow will work for the deliverables for the European food chain supply to reduce GHG emissions by 2050 (ENOUGH) project and the Zero Emission Cold Chain (ZECC) project.
To assist in social care research (by carrying out data collection or analyses) to create knowledge through providing research support for projects and research groups.
This post holder will work across two projects currently running in the HTI – EU Smartshape and an NIHR funded project. The EU SmartShape project, which seeks to develop a sensor system that can delivered in a minimally invasive manner, to continuously monitor blood pressure. The UoB part of the project will specifically focus on the development of the polymeric film on which the sensor will be fabricated.
The post-holder will also support the University’s global engagement activities led or managed by Birmingham Global through defined projects and workstreams. This will include providing project support for the University’s engagement with strategic regions, university partners and networks through the Universitas 21 network.
Be the First to ApplyYou will be responsible for providing excellent customer service in any one of those areas/outlets. This post will involve handling deliveries, high level of customer service, cash handling, till work, re stocking, date rotation, together with any other duties required to ensure the smooth running of the business and operations service we offer to our diverse range of customers.
Be the First to ApplyThe main aim of this post is to nurture the academic development of a post-doctoral trainee, enabling the individual to develop into an independent principal investigator capable of securing a Clinician Scientist Fellowship in the future. Alongside this academic development, the individual will also obtain high quality clinical training in their specialty.
TrendingPlease note: You are only eligible to apply to this role if you are a non-student casual. If you are a current student at the University of Birmingham your application will not be considered. If you are non-student, you will need to put N/A or random numbers in the mandatory student information sections.
To create and contribute to the creation of knowledge by undertaking evidence review and qualitative research within the programme to understand strengths-based practice within adult social care.
Be the First to ApplyThe post holder will interact with stakeholders at all levels to ensure provision of a range of services and advice to researchers within the Colleges of Medicine and Health, and Life and Environmental Sciences. The impact of this role on the academic research agenda is significant, requiring the post holder to lead and deliver strategic services and support in a research-intensive environment.
As a Senior Administrator within the Head and Neck research group working on international head and neck and thyroid cancer research projects, you will provide support for a broad range of administrative duties, some of which may be complex. You may also be responsible for supporting colleagues and sharing knowledge. You will be able to use your wide range of skills, both technical and administrative, and have the opportunity to lead on specific tasks within a team.
Be the First to ApplyYou will provide technical expertise, support and guidance in research support. You may supervise a number of technical staff but even where you do not directly supervise staff you will still be expected to act as a role model and coach others as appropriate.
Be the First to ApplyTo create and contribute to the creation of knowledge by undertaking a specified range of activities within an established research programme and/or specific research project.
Be the First to ApplyThe new post holder will lead on the delivery and assessment of the course, as well as having oversight of the world-class choral activities at the University which are run through University Music. This part-time role ensures that the post holder can continue to work as a leading choral conductor alongside their role at the University, and flexibility in teaching will be possible for this post.
You will provide technical expertise, support and guidance in research support. You may supervise a number of technical staff but even where you do not directly supervise staff you will still be expected to act as a role model and coach others as appropriate.
You will provide technical support for teaching activities as required, utilising your technical skills and a wide range of techniques. You will also be expected to ensure your working area is safe and support others in following health and safety instructions. You may need to operate out of normal working hours to accommodate classes. In order to flexibly use resource you may be given the opportunity to work in different areas of the department or wider University.
As a Food and Beverage Cluster Manager, you will oversee the operations across a group of outlets / functions. You will be responsible for leading teams in providing excellent customer service in each of those areas/outlets and for providing proactive managerial assistance in contributing to financial planning, target setting and delivering key performance indicators.
TrendingYou will be able to develop a wide range of skills, both technical and administrative, and may also have the opportunity to lead on specific tasks within the team.
Providing comprehensive professional advice and cascading expertise on the management of projects and programmes to senior managers and colleagues across IT Services, Professional Services and Colleges within our University, to enable the successful delivery of activity aligned to our strategic objectives. Take a leading and strategic role in the ongoing development, continuous improvement and delivery of project management lifecycles and delivery success.
We are recruiting two Clinical Research Fellows as PhD students in the area of paediatric oncology. The appointees will be registered on the ‘The Azaylia Childhood Cancer PhD Programme’, with funding available for up to 4 years. The two appointees will undertake project-specific research and training in this area as part of an established academic team on one of the following projects:
The Maintenance Craftsperson is responsible to a Team Leader and / or their Deputy Team Leader on a day-to-day basis and is required to carry out work appropriate to their core specialist skills. They are also required to undertake within their level of competency, work of other crafts, following suitable training.
Be the First to ApplyYou will be responsible for leading a team to deliver excellent customer service in any one of those areas/outlets and for planning and delivering to key performance indicators once the budget has been set. Our Food and Beverage Managers provide proactive support to our Senior Management Team and to the Food and Beverage team’s success.
The Multi-Skilled (mechanical and electrical) Technician will carry out advanced highly skilled operations in their area of expertise across the University campus sites, directly reporting to a Team Leader or Deputy Team Leader in their absence.
