Birmingham University in United Kingdom invites applications for vacant Research Positions, one of the largest and most diverse employers in the United Kingdom.
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.
The appointed health economics research associate will create and contribute to the creation of knowledge, vital in building an evidence base that informs policy and practice. The research will focus on the West Midlands Cancer Alliance (WMCA), which has six RDCs for patients with non-specific symptoms in the region. The health economics research associate will work with the wider research team to evaluate the costs and cost-effectiveness of the RDC service.
The post holder will form part of the WCJ Research Group and will contribute to the GWA validation study. The study seeks to test the reliability of the tool based on assessments collected in participating Women’s Centres, with the predictive validity of the tool tested with outcomes arising from linked administrative data. The post holder will be responsible for data checks in the data collection phase, as well as queries that might result from implementation of the tool. As part of the validation, the post holder will conduct cognitive interviews to test specific scales in the GWA.
To create and contribute to the creation of knowledge by undertaking a specified range of activities within two impactful applied health research programmes:
The researcher will lead a project funded by the Grace Kelly Cancer Childhood Trust to test the performance of this tool, further develop and improve the tool, increase the number and range of tumours the programme uses, improving the AI and MRI algorithms, and linking them with information from biological studies on tumour tissue.
IDAI is looking to recruit a Postdoctoral Research Fellow who, as one of two Postdoctoral Research Fellows in the Institute, will play a critical role in expanding and multiplying research efforts directly emerging from the Institute’s research themes and work done by Institute Affiliates. These strategic appointment will be instrumental in delivering the Institute’s mission of promoting research excellence in Data Science methods and AI models while ensuring their principled and competent adoption across disciplines.
As part of the Birmingham Pathfinder (BP) Award—fully funded by the JABSS Foundation—the University of Birmingham is undertaking a comprehensive, three-year mixed-methods evaluation. The evaluation will include a match group trial, as well as qualitative interviews to map the service ‘ecosystem’ in which Pathfinder sits. As part of the project, the Research Group will develop assessment tools that will inform the practice of Pathfinder workers and will be used to collect outcome data for the evaluation. At specific stages of the project, the postholder will spend part of their working week embedded within The Pathfinder Service.
The successful candidate will contribute to the project “Higher-Order Monad-based Programming and Reasoning (HOMBRe),” which explores foundational aspects of program semantics and verification. A central focus of the project is the treatment of computational effects via monads and their generalizations. The project also investigates the semantics of iteration and recursion via trace operators, with particular interest in the notion of guarded traces.
We are looking for a research fellow with expertise in advanced manufacturing (powder bed fusion/electron beam melting/sintering), physical metallurgy or advanced characterisation (microscopic or mechanical). The successful candidate will carry out research and manufacturing process evaluation to produce structural metallic materials. The applicant will work on a research project focussing on manufacturing and characterisation of metals and alloys for challenging environments including for aerospace and nuclear applications.
To create and contribute to the creation of knowledge by undertaking qualitative research and/or health economic evaluation within two impactful applied health research programmes:
The role will involve primary cell isolation from liver tissue and blood, cell characterisation and crosstalk experiments with in depth analysis of transcriptional and protein changes.
The Research Associate will be responsible for the processing of human samples (e.g. blood, tonsils) and for the analysis of these primary cells. The project will use novel combinations of peptide-MHC tetramers with a range of metabolism assays to uncover fundamental properties of virus-specific TRM cells. The candidate will be part of an integrative and multi-disciplinary team working collaboratively to deliver this workstream.
We wish to recruit a motivated experimentalist to generate key data regarding fusion-relevant degradation of novel centre-column shield materials. This includes but not limited to testing fusion materials and their joints to the effect of irradiation, high temperature, heat flux/plasmas, quantify thermo-mechanical property degradation and map failure mechanisms to guide fusion pilot plant designers. As a key member of the team you will work in partnership with Tokamak Energy and will have the opportunity to collaborate with several world-leading research organizations including Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)-Orsay in France, Oak Ridge National Lab & the University of Tennessee in the US and with industrial manufacturers.
The Research Fellow will be supervised by Prof. Christopher Quince (Earlham Institute/Norwich UK), Prof. Iain Chapple (Birmingham), Prof. Moritz Kebschull and Prof. Tariq Iqbal (Birmingham). Their role will comprise both the development of bioinformatics pipelines and the application of novel machine learning methods for interpreting microbiome and host ‘omics data from faecal, intestinal biopsy and saliva samples.
The post holder will contribute to delivery of Workstream Three of the ‘Effective Women’s Centre’ project as part of maternity cover arrangement for an existing member of the ‘Women, Crime & Justice’ Research Group. This workstream examines the effectiveness of casework practice in Women’s Centres working with criminal justice involved women. As part of the work on this workstream to date, we have developed the ‘Gender Responsive Casework Practice Framework’, which will now be tested in a matched group intervention study.
This project aims to address this knowledge gap by recruiting a cohort of healthy smokers aiming to quit smoking using e-cigarettes, to provide critical data needed to determine safety and to inform personal choice, public debate, and policy. This longitudinal cohort study will evaluate accumulation of toxins in the airways, changes in epithelial and innate immune cell functions during smoking cessation, by combining a multi-omic approach with whole-cell effector functions and characterise changes in the respiratory microbiome. This post will require the Research Fellow to work closely with clinical scientists to deliver this cohort study within the laboratory of Dr Aaron Scott.
The successful applicant will work on the NIHR School for Social Care Research funded project: “Hidden Costs of Hospital Discharge: Understanding the costs and outcomes associated with Hospital Discharge from the perspective of people, carers and local authorities”.
Within a multidisciplinary team (and operating within their area of specialism), the post-holder will contribute to achieving research objectives by gathering and analysing qualitative and quantitative data, undertaking project management and administration related activities and dissemination. Work will be undertaken as part of a s specified research grant (“Hidden Costs of Hospital Discharge: Understanding the costs and outcomes associated with Hospital Discharge from the perspective of people, carers and local authorities”). In addition, the post-holder may be expected to contribute to writing bids for future research funding.
The focus of this role is to explore how a circular economy can be developed for the production and recycling of electric vehicle batteries in the West Midlands, accounting for waste streams and their recovery, or environmentally benign treatment. The post will be part of the CLEETS project.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed scientist to join our project team, which is aiming to better understand the in-host behaviour of fungal pathogens. The successful candidate will make extensive use of a range of in vivo models of fungal infection and will have access to the wide range of transgenic tools and in vivo immunology techniques established in the Drummond lab. Training will be provided in the use of in vivo models. The candidate’s research will focus on how fungal pathogens respond to cues encountered in organ-specific environments.
We are seeking a Research Fellow to support the development and application of quantum technology-based gravity gradient sensors. The successful candidate will focus on the analysis and inversion of gravity gradient data, contribute to the development of data interfaces for multi-modal sensor integration, and perform advanced data processing and inference to support subsurface imaging and interpretation. This role will involve working closely with civil engineers, computational modellers, Physicists, and geophysicists to translate raw sensor outputs into actionable insights.
cross these two projects, the Research Fellow will collect objective and subjective sleep data from children with neurogenetic syndromes and develop and administer new play-based measures of executive functioning. The Research Fellow will lead on project initiation, participant recruitment, data collection, data management and analysis, report writing, preparation of manuscripts and materials for publication and dissemination and related project administration. The post will suit candidates with an interest in clinical psychology and developmental psychology. The candidate will have the opportunity to benefit from a range of training and supervision opportunities while in post.
The successful candidate will make extensive use of a range of in vivo models of fungal infection and will have access to the wide range of transgenic tools and in vivo immunology techniques established in the Drummond lab. The candidate’s research will focus on how fungal pathogens respond to cues encountered in organ-specific environments. This is an exciting opportunity to investigate regulation of fungal adaptation and antifungal immunity in vivo.
To 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.
We are seeking a highly motivated researcher in statistics, machine learning, mathematical modelling, or a related field, to join our research team in the Department of Applied Health Sciences. The successful candidate will work on an NIHR funded methodology project looking at the design and analysis of randomised trials of interventions to reduce the risk of vector-borne diseases (e.g. malaria and dengue). The Project offers an interdisciplinary opportunity to work in at the intersection of statistics and epidemiology, and features an exciting case study involving novel GM and gene drive interventions for control of malaria-transmitting mosquitoes, with opportunities to build an international research portfolio.
We are seeking a highly motivated researcher in statistics, machine learning, mathematical modelling, or a related field, to join our research team in the Department of Applied Health Sciences. The successful candidate will work on an NIHR funded methodology project looking at the design and analysis of randomised trials of interventions to reduce the risk of vector-borne diseases (e.g. malaria and dengue). The Project offers an interdisciplinary opportunity to work in at the intersection of statistics and epidemiology, and features an exciting case study involving novel GM and gene drive interventions for control of malaria-transmitting mosquitoes, with opportunities to build an international research portfolio.
To 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.
The project will develop rigorous theoretical frameworks to understand key properties of quantum machine learning models—expressivity, generalization, and adversarial robustness, and the inter-play between them. These foundational insights will guide the design of novel algorithmic strategies, pushing the boundaries of quantum-enhanced learning. This 2.5-year postdoctoral position is funded by the Principal Investigator’s recently awarded EPSRC Quantum Technologies Career Acceleration Fellowship.
Applications are invited to work on a new research project funded by Shionogi BV “Measuring cognitive outcomes in people with intellectual disability”, developing new play-based measures of executive functioning for children with intellectual disability. The research assistant will engage in tasks related to project initiation, participant recruitment, data collection, data management and analysis, report writing, preparation of manuscripts and materials for publication and dissemination and related project administration. The post will suit candidates with an interest in clinical psychology and developmental psychology. The candidate will have the opportunity to benefit from a range of training and supervision opportunities while in post.
The post holder will work in a high-quality research environment and will be sponsored by a senior mentor for development of their independent research within the strategic areas of research in the MDS.
