The University of Manchester in United Kingdom invites application for vacant Research Positions, a public research university in Manchester, England.
Research Associate – Carbonation Treatment of Waste Materials
location_onManchester
Salary: £37,174 – £45,413 per annum depending on experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Science and Engineering
Division/Team: Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
School/Directorate: School of Engineering
Employment type: Fixed Term
Location: Manchester
Hours per week: Full time (1 FTE)
Duration: Fixed term for 12 months
New
Research Associate in X-ray Imaging of Cementitious Materials – X-SeeO2
location_onOxford Road
Salary: £37,174 to £45,413 per annum dependent on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Science and Engineering
Division/Team: Department of Materials
School/Directorate: School of Natural Sciences
Employment type: Fixed Term
Location: Oxford Road
Hours per week: Full Time (1 FTE)
Duration: 42 months
New
location_onOxford Road
Salary: £31,637-£36,130 pro rata, per annum depending on experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Science and Engineering
Division/Team: Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
School/Directorate: School of Engineering
Employment type: Fixed Term
Location: Oxford Road
Hours per week: Full time for 3 months (1.0 FTE) or part time for 6 months (0.5 FTE)
Duration: Fixed term for 3 months or 6 months
New
Research Associate in Modelling and Control of VSC HVDC
location_onManchester
Salary: Grade 6 £37,174 to £45,413 per annum, depending on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Science and Engineering
Division/Team: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
School/Directorate: School of Engineering
Employment type: Fixed Term
Location: Manchester
Hours per week: 1 FTE
Duration: Fixed term 24 months starting 1st October 2025
New
Research Associate in Commercial Market Research for Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering
location_onManchester Institute of Biotechnology
Salary: £37,174 per annum
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Science and Engineering
Division/Team: Department of Chemical Engineering
School/Directorate: School of Engineering
Employment type: Fixed Term
Location: Manchester Institute of Biotechnology
Hours per week: Full Time (1 FTE)
Duration: Up to 4 months
New
Research Fellow in Sarah Harding Young Women’s Breast Cancer Research
location_onCRUK Oglesby Cancer Research Building, 555 Wilmslow Road, M20 4GJ
Salary: £46,735 – £57,422 per annum depending on experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Biology, Medicine Health
Division/Team: Division of Cancer Sciences
School/Directorate: School of Medical Sciences
Employment type: Fixed Term
Location: CRUK Oglesby Cancer Research Building, 555 Wilmslow Road, M20 4GJ
Hours per week: Full Time (1FTE)
Duration: 5 Years
New
Research Associate – Incineration Waste Bottom Ash and Carbon Capture
location_onManchester
Salary: £37,174 – £45,413 per annum depending on experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Science and Engineering
Division/Team: Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
School/Directorate: School of Engineering
Employment type: Fixed Term
Location: Manchester
Hours per week: Full time (1 FTE)
Duration: Fixed term for 16 months
New
Research Associate in Division of Psychology and Mental Health
location_onManchester
Salary: £37,174 – £40,497 per annum depending on experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Biology, Medicine Health
Division/Team: Division of Psychology and Mental Health
School/Directorate: School of Health Sciences
Employment type: Fixed Term
Location: Manchester
Hours per week: 1 FTE
Duration: Fixed term for 36 Months (with possibility of extension)
Research Associate in Colour X-ray Tomography
location_onManchester
Salary: £37,174 – £45,413 per annum depending on experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Science and Engineering
Division/Team: Department of Materials
School/Directorate: School of Natural Sciences
Employment type: Fixed Term
Location: Manchester
Hours per week: Full time (1 FTE)
Duration: Fixed term for 36 months
New Closing Soon
location_onOxford Road
Salary: £37,174- £40,497 per annum depending on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Biology, Medicine Health
Division/Team: Division of Population Health, Health Services Research And Primary Care
School/Directorate: School of Health Sciences
Employment type: Fixed Term
Location: Oxford Road
Hours per week: Full Time (1 FTE)
Duration: 12 Months
New Closing Soon
Lab Manager/Research Technician
location_onCRUK Oglesby Cancer Research Building, 555 Wilmslow Road, M20 4GJ
Salary: £31,637 to £36,130 per annum, dependent on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Biology, Medicine Health
Division/Team: Division of Cancer Sciences
School/Directorate: School of Medical Sciences
Employment type: Fixed Term
Location: CRUK Oglesby Cancer Research Building, 555 Wilmslow Road, M20 4GJ
Hours per week: 35 hours per week (1 FTE)
Duration: Fixed term for 30 months
New Closing Soon
Creative Manchester Research Associate
location_onOxford Road
Salary: £37,174 to £45,413 per annum dependent on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Humanities
Division/Team: Creative Manchester
School/Directorate: School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
Employment type: Fixed Term
Location: Oxford Road
Hours per week: Full Time (1 FTE)
Duration: 34 months
New
Research Assistant in Psychology and Mental Health
location_onManchester
Salary: £31,637 to £34,132 per annum, depending on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Biology, Medicine Health
Division/Team: Division of Psychology and Mental Health
School/Directorate: School of Health Sciences
Employment type: Fixed Term
Location: Manchester
Hours per week: 35 hours per week
Duration: 24 Months (in the first instance)
Research Fellow in Health Economics
location_onOxford Road
Salary: £46,735 to £52,566 per annum dependent on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Biology, Medicine Health
Division/Team: Division of Population Health, Health Services Research And Primary Care
School/Directorate: School of Health Sciences
Employment type: Fixed Term
Location: Oxford Road
Hours per week: Full Time (1 FTE)
Duration: 36 Months from 01/08/2025 to 31/07/2028
Research Associate in Health Economics
location_onOxford Road
Salary: £37,174 to £41,671 per annum, dependent on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Biology, Medicine Health
Division/Team: Division of Population Health, Health Services Research And Primary Care
School/Directorate: School of Health Sciences
Employment type: Fixed Term
Location: Oxford Road
Hours per week: Full Time (1 FTE)
Duration: 24 Months from 01/09/2025 to 31/08/2027
Closing Soon
Research Associate in Operando X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
location_onOxford Road
Salary: £37,174 to £45,413 per annum dependent on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Science and Engineering
Division/Team: Department of Chemistry
School/Directorate: School of Natural Sciences
Employment type: Fixed Term
Location: Oxford Road
Hours per week: Full Time (1 FTE)
Duration: 24 months
Research Associate or Research Fellow In Machine Learning (2 Posts Available)
location_onOxford Road
Salary: £37,174 to £57,422 per annum, dependent on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Science and Engineering
Division/Team: Department of Computer Science
School/Directorate: School of Engineering
Employment type: Fixed Term
Location: Oxford Road
Hours per week: Full Time (1 FTE)
Duration: Fixed term until 30/09/2026
location_onOxford Road
Salary: £37,174 – £45,413 per annum depending on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Biology, Medicine Health
Division/Team: Division of Developmental Biology and Medicine
School/Directorate: School of Medical Sciences
Employment type: Fixed Term
Location: Oxford Road
Hours per week: Full Time (1FTE)
Duration: 10 Months (Please note that the successful candidate must be available to start no later than 15 September 2025)
Closing Soon
location_onOxford Road
Salary: £37,174-£40,497 per annum depending on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Biology, Medicine Health
Division/Team: Division of Population Health, Health Services Research And Primary Care
School/Directorate: School of Health Sciences
Employment type: Fixed Term
Location: Oxford Road
Hours per week: Full Time (1FTE)
Duration: 23 Months
Closing Soon
Research Associate in Multimodal Artificial Intelligence for Biology
location_onOxford Road
Salary: £37,174 – £45,413 per annum depending on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Biology, Medicine Health
Division/Team: Division of Informatics, Imaging & Data Science
School/Directorate: School of Health Sciences
Employment type: Fixed Term
Location: Oxford Road
Hours per week: Full Time (1FTE)
Duration: 12 Months or less
Research Associate in Cognitive Neuroscience
location_onManchester
Salary: £37,174 to £45,413 per annum dependent on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Biology, Medicine Health
Division/Team: Division of Psychology, Communication and Human Neuroscience
School/Directorate: School of Health Sciences
Employment type: Fixed Term
Location: Manchester
Hours per week: Full Time (1 FTE)
Duration: 36 Months from 1st October 2025 in the first instance
Closing Soon
location_onManchester
Salary: £31,637 – £36,130 (pro-rata) per annum depending on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Biology, Medicine Health
Division/Team: Division of Pharmacy and Optometry
School/Directorate: School of Health Sciences
Employment type: Fixed Term
Location: Manchester
Hours per week: Part-Time: 0.6 FTE (21 hours per week)
Duration: 12 Months
Closing Soon
Research Associate in Health Economics
location_onOxford Road
Salary: £37,174 per annum
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Biology, Medicine Health
Division/Team: Division of Population Health, Health Services Research And Primary Care
School/Directorate: School of Health Sciences
Employment type: Fixed Term
Location: Oxford Road
Hours per week: Full Time (1 FTE)
Duration: 12 months from 01/09/2025 to 31/08/2026
Closing Soon
location_onOxford Road
Salary: £27,644 to £29,179 per annum, depending on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Biology, Medicine Health
Division/Team: FBMH Technical Services
School/Directorate: Faculty Office – Biology, Medicine and Health
Employment type: Fixed Term
Location: Oxford Road
Hours per week: 35 hours per week
Duration: Fixed term from as soon as possible until 29 June 2026
ACED Project Manager (Maternity Cover)
location_onCRUK Manchester Institute (Directly across from OCRB)
Salary: £37,174 to £40,497 per annum dependent on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Biology, Medicine Health
Division/Team: Division of Cancer Sciences
School/Directorate: School of Medical Sciences
Employment type: Fixed Term
Location: CRUK Manchester Institute (Directly across from OCRB)
Hours per week: Full Time (1 FTE)
Duration: Until 31 August 2026
Closing Soon
Research Associate in C1-Fixing Microbiome Engineering
location_onManchester Institute of Biotechnology
Salary: £37,174 to £45,413 per annum, depending on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Science and Engineering
Division/Team: Department of Chemistry
School/Directorate: School of Natural Sciences
Employment type: Fixed Term
Location: Manchester Institute of Biotechnology
Hours per week: Full Time
Duration: from 1 September 2025 for up to 48 months
Closing Soon
Research Associate in Microbiome Engineering for Bioremediation
location_onManchester Institute of Biotechnology
Salary: £37,174 to £45,413 per annum dependent on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Science and Engineering
Division/Team: Department of Chemistry
School/Directorate: School of Natural Sciences
Employment type: Fixed Term
Location: Manchester Institute of Biotechnology
Hours per week: Full Time (1 FTE)
Duration: 36 months
Research Associate – Environmental Decision Support Modelling
location_onOxford Road
Salary: £37,174 to £45,413 per annum dependent on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Science and Engineering
Division/Team: Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
School/Directorate: School of Natural Sciences
Employment type: Fixed Term
Location: Oxford Road
Hours per week: Full Time (1 FTE)
Duration: 36 months
Closing Soon
Research Fellow in Synthetic Genomics
location_onManchester Institute of Biotechnology
Salary: £46,735 to £57,422 per annum, depending on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Science and Engineering
Division/Team: Department of Chemistry
School/Directorate: School of Natural Sciences
Employment type: Fixed Term
Location: Manchester Institute of Biotechnology
Hours per week: 35 hours per week
Duration: 36 months
Closing Soon
Research Associate in Multiphase and Turbulent Flow Heat Transfer
location_onOxford Road
Salary: £36,924-£45,163 per annum, dependent on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Science and Engineering
Division/Team: Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
School/Directorate: School of Engineering
Employment type: Fixed Term
Location: Oxford Road
Hours per week: Full Time
Duration: available from 1 October 2025 for 12 months
Closing Soon
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Catalysis and Machine Learning
location_onOxford Road
Salary: £37,174 – £40,497 per annum depending on experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Science and Engineering
Division/Team: Department of Chemistry
School/Directorate: School of Natural Sciences
Employment type: Fixed Term
Location: Oxford Road
Hours per week: Full time (1 FTE)
Duration: Fixed Term for 36 months
