17 Research Associate positions at University of Manchester, England

We wish to appoint a Research Associate with expertise in Health Psychology to join the Manchester Centre for Health Psychology. The successful applicant will work closely with Professor Chris Armitage, as well as wider project teams.

The postholder will work on a project examining take-up of Pension Credit funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). You will undertake highly relevant applied research and liaise closely with independent economic and social policy experts, plus policymakers and advisers in the Department of Health and Social Care.

A PhD in Health Psychology or related subject is essential. Candidates will need to demonstrate a track record of productivity, mixed methods research and advanced understanding of current behaviour change theories and practice.

The City of Manchester’s action plan for tackling health inequalities over the next 5 years. policy@manchester are partners via the Greater Manchester Policy Hub with the Public Health departments at both the University of Manchester and Manchester City Council. We will be evaluating the impact of the Making Manchester Fairer initiative and the newly funded Health Determinants Research Collaboration learning needs for developing an outcomes framework for reducing inequalities.

The Faculty of Humanities has recently received a new £4.73m University investment in AI Trust and Security to drive the Faculty’s vision to be a research leader this field. The investment will help us to build an interdisciplinary research team working in the broad field of AI Trust and Security to build on our existing strengths in Digital Trust, Security and Society. At UoM, we see AI security as part of a set of broader issues of trust and trustworthiness, distrust and trust exploitation, and trust-building and resilience, and promote an interdisciplinary approach to these issues.

An enthusiastic and highly motivated Research Associate is required to join an ambitious new team working in the field of human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC) biology and heart development. You will lead exciting research aimed at understanding the molecular biology of human cardiac progenitors and the determinants of cardiac cell fate, to support the development of regenerative medicine and to uncover the causes of congenital heart disease (CHD). The position is funded through a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship awarded to Dr Matthew Birket: “Understanding Cardiac Progenitors to deliver Regenerative Medicine and Disease Modelling”. The work will build on data recently reported by the Birket group: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.15.607916v1

This next phase of the project aims to further resolve the cell fate decisions in early cardiac development and understand the regulatory mechanisms. The role of the transcription factor HAND1 will be at the centre of these investigations. The practical element of the project will be based on the in vitro culture, manipulation, differentiation and measurement of hPSCs. Our lab uses cutting-edge technologies including single cell genomics and multiomics, CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing and CRISPR library screening, combined with 2D and 3D cardiac differentiation models and lineage tracing systems. In addition to leading their own research projects, the appointed candidate will have the opportunity to contribute to the projects of several PhD students in the group. The team is dynamic and ambitious as well as being welcoming and supportive.

We are recruiting an ambitious, self-motivated Research Associate to join Dr Palin’s research group focussing on analysing large-scale, complex maternity data.

The goal to develop an algorithm, in collaboration with clinical stakeholders, to generate and validate a pregnancy episode. This work will enable clinical research and ultimately help to improve health outcomes for mother and baby.

The successful candidate will work closely with the research team and engage clinical stakeholders to co-develop an open-source, reliable and validated method, to identify maternal and fetal health care episodes within the secure data platform.

Applications are sought for a Research Associate to contribute to the conduct and analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), with particular responsibility for the social science elements of the study, with a focus on ethnic inequalities in later life. The post would be based in the Department of Sociology and The Cathie Marsh Institute, University of Manchester, and will involve liaison with researchers in the University and colleagues in University College London, National Centre for Social Research and the Institute for Fiscal Studies. The appointment is maternity leave cover and will be for a period of 10.5 months. The post-holder will report to Dr Dharmi Kapadia, but will be supported by discipline-specific mentors

A Research Associate position, funded by UKRI, is available for an outstanding and ambitious environmental geochemist, environmental chemist, environmental/chemical engineer (or similar) to study groundwater chemistry, (bio)geochemical processes and remediation approaches, particularly in the context of northern India and East Africa.  This project aims to create a roadmap towards improved groundwater quality management in the context of the Global South by bringing together systematic approaches to improve the understanding of dominant groundwater processes and to support evidence-based decision-making for effective groundwater remediation.  This position is part of a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project “AQUAROAD: Advancing Groundwater Quality in the Global South: Geochemical Processes, Remediation, Optimisation & Co-Designed Decision-Making Frameworks” (see: https://www.aquaroad.org/and MR/Y016327/1).

We seek to appoint a Research Associate on a full-time appointment for 24 months to join the Computational Social Science training team of the UK Data Service (UKDS), based at the Cathie Marsh Institute. The post will start on the 1st of April 2025. Two part-time candidates working on a job share could also be considered. 

This team specialises in upskilling social scientists in computationally intensive research methods such as machine learning, text-mining, synthetic data creation and interactive visualisations. The upskilling takes place through live training sessions (online and in-person), asynchronous learning materials and other formats such as drop-in sessions, live coding demonstrations etc.  We are seeking someone with computational social science expertise to:

(1) contribute to an UKRI-funded project led by UKDS staff to upskill global data service staff in computational social science.

(2) contribute to the UKDS computational social science training programme.

Royce is seeking a Research and Business Engagement (RBE) Officer to work as a part of an integrated team to proactively identify, approach and engage with companies, Higher Education Institutions (HEI) and other research-focused organisations to help advance Advanced Materials research and innovation and to win business through collaborations. The post holder will play a pivotal role in contributing to the strategic development, management and delivery of research and business engagement activities including establishing and coordinating national Research Core Area community networks, building and supporting a diverse range of research communities, encouraging inter-disciplinary working across traditional boundaries and identifying and delivering facilities access models for business across the UK. Knowledge of the materials evaluation of materials in demanding environment (e.g. corrosion, fatigue..), imaging and characterisation and/or materials modelling and simulation sector would be extremely beneficial.

We wish to appoint a Research Fellow with expertise in economics or health economics to join the Health Organisation, Policy and Economics (HOPE) research group. The successful applicant will work closely with Professor Matt Sutton, as well as wider project teams.

The postholder will divide their time between two projects funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), a project examining take-up of Pension Credit and the Policy Research Unit in Health and Care Systems and Commissioning (PRUComm). You will undertake highly relevant applied research and liaise closely with independent economic and social policy experts, plus policymakers and advisers in the Department of Health and Social Care.

The Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis has an exciting opportunity for a Social Network Analyst to join our research team.

We are seeking to appoint a Research Associate on a full-time appointment for 18 months to join the project “Gender inequalities: the role of social networks in gendered interactions and social structures” funded by ESRC responsive mode: secondary data analysis.

The main goal of this project is to identify the social network mechanisms linking gendered micro-interactions to the macro-inequalities that systematically frame opportunities and constraints for men and women.

We are seeking a skilled and proactive research associate in digital epidemiology to support the MRC-funded national network ‘Health Research from Home’ (HRfH), focused on the use of smartphones and wearables for population health research. The post will suit an ambitious researcher with a background in epidemiology, biostatistics or health data science and an interest in conducting novel mobile health research. The postholder will lead literature reviews of current practice in smartphones and wearables for population health research, actively participate in working groups defining future best practice, and contribute to the conduct, analysis and evaluation of two pioneering projects linking digital patient-generated health data with more traditional data sources.  

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Research Associate) in Nanomedicine post within the NanoOmics Lab in the Centre for Nanotechnology in Medicine at the University of Manchester. The post is available from 1st March 2025 and will be tenable on a fixed term basis for 12 months with the possibility to extend further for five years.

You will contribute to the European Research Council Starting Grant awarded to Dr Marilena Hadjidemetriou, focusing upon utilizing nanoparticle-enabled technology to explore the link between brain pathology and the blood proteome. You will employ a combination of ex vivo blood proteomics analysis and in vivo preclinical mouse models to discover novel liquid biopsy biomarkers for glioblastoma and Alzheimer’s disease, using our in-house nanoscale blood enrichment platform. You should be a current or prior holder of a Procedure Individual License (PIL) for in vivo work.  Demonstrable previous experience in Nanomedicine or Biomarker research in addition to expertise in histology and proteomics techniques are essential.