09 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Sussex, East Sussex, United Kingdom

We have an opening for a research fellow or senior research fellow to work with the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium at the university of Sussex with the Panamanian Science and Technology agency, (SENACYT) for a part time 6-month period on Futures Scenario planning beginning February 2025. The post holder will be expected to prepare primary material, be able to design a high-level workshop in Panama on Futures associated with sustainable transitions. Sensitivity to cross-country differences in policy, including specific cultural and institutional contexts is crucial. Background and experience on Futures methods essential, as well as knowledge of the literature of transformative innovation and transformative innovation policy. 

Applications are invited for the post of Research Fellow in Cancer Research (non-clinical) at Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS). We are looking to recruit a scientist with a strong background in cancer research, or a related discipline to work on a 2-year Blood Cancer UK funded project. The successful applicant will be a motivated and enthusiastic team player, who can demonstrate technical expertise in a range of laboratory techniques, ideally including tissue culture and flow cytometry. Computational skills are also desirable but training in computational biology will be available. 

 We wish to appoint a Research Fellow in telomere biology. The project aims to investigate the role of chromatin structure in maintenance of Alternative lengthening (ALT) of telomeres. The fellow will use a variety of cell biology and biochemistry techniques to investigate how heterochromatin affects the recombination at telomeres of ALT cells and how this maintains their survival. 

The role will involve working within a European Research Council funded project (HONORLOGIC) as part of a large research group including Professor Uskul (PI), a Research Fellow, a PhD student, a large international team of researchers and research assistants, a Project Officer and placement students who may be part of the team during the course of the appointment. Main roles will involve assisting with ongoing studies planned as part of the project, analyzing existing data and writing up research articles for publication. 

This project is part of an EPSRC funded project across six UK universities, IntentMAPS: Anticipating Intent facilitated by Multi-scale Adaptive Passive RF Sensing. Tracking people and discovering what they are doing is a challenging task. The Project will use AI to detect the behaviour of individuals and crowds and extend the state of the art by working at scale and more complex environments.  Working with the other partners, we will explore use of the passive collection of radio reflections from next generation 6G technologies to locate people. At Sussex, we will process the location information provided by our partners and use this to track multiple people within a crowd. In addition, this can be used to perform human activity recognition at individual and group level. 

The Sussex Drug Discovery Centre (SDDC) is offering a unique opportunity to join a vibrant research group in an exciting and emerging area of drug discovery research.  We are looking to recruit a scientist with knowledge of medicinal and natural-product inspired synthetic organic chemistry and drug discovery on a project targeting inter alia resistance in antifungal drugs.  SDDC is a multi-disciplinary team of drug discovery scientists developing novel cancer (including fragment based drug discovery towards DNA damage and epigenetic targets) and other small molecule therapeutics. The project will be overseen by Profs Tony Moore, Erika Mancini, John Spencer and Dr Andrew McGown and an overview of research within the SDDC can be found at http://www.sussex.ac.uk/sddc/index

The Experimental Particle Physics group at the University of Sussex seeks to appoint a talented and creative researcher with strong computational and experimental skills to join the Sussex team working on the ATLAS experiment and its upgrades. The successful candidate will work primarily on the development of tracking software for the Event Filter trigger upgrade of the ATLAS experiment in view of the High-Luminosity LHC phase, with the possibility to participate in physics analyses and experimental operations at some appropriate level.

The Faculty of Media, Arts, and Humanities at the University of Sussex seeks to appoint a research fellow in digital humanities. The fellow will be an integral part of the team for the European Research Council-funded project ‘Promiscuous Print: Legal Deposit Libraries, Rejected Texts, and New Methods for Negative Bibliography’ (PromPrint) led by Dr Hannah Field.

PromPrint uses digital tools and quantitative analyses to uncover the rejects of legal deposit: the printed texts excluded from the ostensibly universal archive promised by copyright libraries. Legal deposit works to preserve every text published in a specific group of libraries. While this principle is egalitarian, the cultural promiscuity of print has often troubled the prestigious deposit libraries, as deposit brings such historically controversial forms as novels, children’s books, almanacs, and pamphlets into elite collections. 

Taking a case study approach based in UK copyright libraries between 1836 and 1914, the project asks questions including: which textual forms and genres do deposit libraries reject? How and why does this change over time? More broadly, the research seeks to drive forward our understanding of how literature is canonized and forgotten, collected and destroyed.