19 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England

The School of Psychology at the University of Leeds are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join our team studying the neurobiological mechanisms of strategy use to improve memory in ageing. The 1-year position will contribute to a project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). You will work with Dr Melanie Burke and Dr Richard Allen (University of Leeds), along with Prof Louise Brown Nicholls (PI, University of Strathclyde), Dr Claudia von Bastian (University of Sheffield) and Prof Mario Parra Rodrigues (University of Strathclyde) on the project ‘Strategy Training to support healthy cognitive ageing: behavioural, neuroimaging and real-world investigations’.  

To be considered for the role, you will have completed, or almost completed (i.e., submitted, pending examination), a PhD in cognitive neuroscience, psychology or a closely related discipline. You will have some experience or knowledge of brain imaging methods, with an interest in memory and cognitive ageing. You will have experience with quantitative and imaging research methods and of relevant software for analysis. Experience with relevant experimental software (e.g., PsychoPy), handling complex data, and collecting cognitive data with older adults, would be an advantage. You will have the ability to conduct research work in a professional and sensitive manner. You will be able to plan, organise, and prioritise your own workload, including leading preparation of research proposals and papers, and meeting deadlines. You will also be able to work within a team, including liaising with external collaborators and other stakeholders. Finally, you will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and be able to present complex information in an accessible way to different audiences. 

The University of Leeds is a truly global community, with more than 39,000 students from 170 different countries and over 9,000 staff of 100 different nationalities.  Established in 1904, we have a strong tradition of academic excellence, reflected in first-class student education, along with world-leading research that has a real impact around the globe. 

Inspiring Futures for Zero Carbon Mobility (INFUZE) is a major £7.8m five year research grant funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Working across the Universities of Leeds, Lancaster and the Royal College of Art INFUZE is seeking to achieve transformative change in how transport works, addressing the climate challenge whilst improving fairness and quality of life. INFUZE is an exciting new collaboration which will work with citizens and businesses to re-imagine our transport systems. The programme will build an increasingly ambitious suite of real-world trials with communities, transport providers and government partners. We are looking to recruit a passionate and committed researcher to drive forward our work on the whole life carbon and wider impacts of a transition away from individualised car ownership.

Do you want to expand our understanding of the forests of the Congo Basin? Do you have skills in engaging partners in tropical research and developing high-quality ecological datasets? Do you want to further your career in one of the UK’s leading research-intensive Universities?

The Ecology and Global Change research cluster at Leeds conducts world-leading research in tropical ecology and change. We are looking to recruit a skilled Postdoctoral Research Fellow to undertake plot data collection and compilation from the African Topical Rainforest Observatory Network (AfriTRON) for the CongoFor1.5 project. The central aim of CongoFor1.5 is to understand the carbon balance and ecology of the forests of the Congo Basin over time. We are looking for a researcher who is motivated to conduct fieldwork across the Congo Basin to help us assess the changing carbon balance of intact forests. 

The CongoFor1.5 project is designed to census at least 225 long-term forest monitoring plots across Cameroon (45 plots), Democratic Republic of Congo (90 plots), Gabon (45 plots), and Republic of the Congo (45 plots), in close collaboration with our long-term partners in each of the four countries. You will join a vibrant team, led by Professor Simon Lewis, and a Research Fellow in Central African Carbon Dynamics, and will benefit from the support of the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI) who fund the project. 

You will be responsible for conducting field data collection with our partners in central Africa to assist training partners’ field teams and to ensure that high-quality data are acquired, quality controlled, and archived in the database ForestPlots.net. This will include substantial fieldwork in tropical forests across the Congo basin. You will work closely with the CongoFor1.5 Research Fellow in Central African Carbon Dynamics who will oversee the plot data collection and the Research Data Officer to quality control and archive the data. The successful candidate will have personal research time to be used based on the project and their interests, to best further their future career.

You will be based in the UK, but will work with colleagues in Central Africa, and take part in lengthy and remote field campaigns. You will have excellent existing field skills and a willingness to collaborate widely with colleagues in Africa. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to CongoFor1.5 in other ways, including helping early career researchers in central Africa with analyses.

This role will be based on the university campus   with scope for it to be undertaken in a hybrid manner.  We are also open to discussing flexible working arrangements.

The University of Leeds is one of the top 80 universities in the world.  We have a truly global community, with more than 39,000 students from 170 different countries and over 9,000 staff of 100 different nationalities.  Established in 1904, we have a strong tradition of academic excellence, reflected in first-class student education, along with world-leading research that has a real impact around the globe. 

Please note that this post may be suitable for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route but first-time applicants might need to qualify for salary concessions. For more information please visit: www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa.

For research and academic posts, we will consider eligibility under the Global Talent visa. For more information please visit: https://www.gov.uk/global-talent

The CongoFor1.5 project is large project designed to census at least 225 long-term forest monitoring plots across Cameroon (45 plots), Democratic Republic of Congo (90 plots), Gabon (45 plots), and Republic of the Congo (45 plots), in close collaboration with our long-term partners in each of the four countries. You will join a vibrant team, led by Professor Simon Lewis, and will benefit from the support of the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI) who fund the project. 

You will be responsible for leading the collection and compilation of the plot dataset from central Africa, with support from the project PI and a wider team in Leeds, including a Research Fellow in African Forest Measurement, Project Assistant, a Research Data Officer, and our partners across the Congo Basin. You will conduct fieldwork in central Africa to assist training partners’ field teams and to ensure that high-quality data are acquired, quality controlled, and archived in the database ForestPlots.net. The successful candidate is expected to utilise the AfriTRON dataset to publish high-impact papers, based on the project and their interests.

The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to CongoFor1.5 in other ways, including helping early career researchers in central Africa with analyses. You will be based in the UK, but will work with colleagues in Central Africa, and take part in potentially lengthy and remote field campaigns, particularly early in the project. You will have excellent existing field skills as well as skills in statistical analysis, a willingness to collaborate widely with colleagues in Africa, as well as a track-record of publishing high-quality papers from your previous research. 

This role will be based on the university campus   with scope for it to be undertaken in a hybrid manner.  We are also open to discussing flexible working arrangements.

The University of Leeds is one of the top 80 universities in the world.  We have a truly global community, with more than 39,000 students from 170 different countries and over 9,000 staff of 100 different nationalities.  Established in 1904, we have a strong tradition of academic excellence, reflected in first-class student education, along with world-leading research that has a real impact around the globe. 

Please note that this post may be suitable for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route but first-time applicants might need to qualify for salary concessions. For more information please visit: www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa.

If so, we are recruiting a Research Fellow in DNA Nanotechnology and Molecular Seed Sciences to join an interdisciplinary team to investigate the mechanisms underpinning genome preservation in plant species with DNA nanotechnology and advanced imaging tools.

This role is for a highly experienced scientists with proven skills in DNA nanotechnology and DNA nanostructure characterisation, supported by internationally leading publications. You will have a very strong track record in biophysical sciences and single-molecule imaging (e.g., atomic force microscopy, electron microscopy, super-resolution fluorescence imaging) with an international profile including presentations at major DNA nanotechnology conferences. You will bring this expertise to the role, which involved the development of innovative tools for studying genome stability in seeds and plant cells. You will be motivated to expand your research skills in molecular biology, protein chemistry and proteomics. 

By joining us, you will be part of a dynamic team members of the Bragg Centre for Materials Research, providing a vibrant, collaborative, interdisciplinary research environment that encourages creativity and exploration. We look forward to welcoming a motivated, collaborative researcher to join our team on this exciting and ambitious project.

Please note that this post may be suitable for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route but first-time applicants might need to qualify for salary concessions. For more information please visit:  www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa.&nbsp. 

The University of Leeds is one of the top 80 universities in the world.  We have a truly global community, with more than 39,000 students from 170 different countries and over 9,000 staff of 100 different nationalities.  Established in 1904, we have a strong tradition of academic excellence, reflected in first-class student education, along with world-leading research that has a real impact around the globe. 

As a collaborator in the AHRC’s £3.1 million investment in cultural heritage research, the School of Performance and Cultural Industries is looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated individual with disciplinary expertise in arts and culture and a passion for shaping UK policy. With the ability to collaborate effectively in large projects and synthesise disparate information into a useful, coherent structure, you will be part of a multi-disciplinary project across four institutions, aiming to develop an ontology of arts, culture and heritage values that will inform policymakers for years to come.

Based at the University of Leeds and working closely with the Centre for Cultural Value, you will be a core member of a dynamic research-industry team and supervised by Dr Hugh Brown. Key project collaborators include Historic England, the University of Manchester, and the University of Glasgow. This role will complete the final year (Nov 2024- Feb 2026) of the 2.5 year project, and will help refine and validate the draft ontology of arts, culture, and heritage capital services, stocks and flows.

An EPSRC-funded project ‘Informing Future Numerical Standards by Determining Features of Non-Standard Mathematical Hardware’ is a 3-year project that aims to develop tools to improve our understanding of several numerical features of the numerical hardware present in datacentre GPUs and domain-specific machine learning accelerators. The main goal is to improve the existent almost entirely manual methods by focusing on three core aspects: automating, removing the need for specialized in-depth knowledge of mathematics of floating-point arithmetic, and informing the public about the features of the current hardware.

The work is spread across four work packages (WPs). Each WP contains a wide variety of tasks that will provide you with a unique experience of working with the low-level numerical software and mathematical hardware, as well as understand mathematics that underpin that software and hardware. As examples, it will involve creating models of mathematical hardware available in literature by utilizing custom-precision simulators, as well as designing high-level software wrappers that can manage low-level code targeted at an array of diverse hardware devices: from NVIDIA and AMD datacentre GPUs to Intel Ponte Vecchio accelerators.

The project is led by Dr Mantas Mikaitis and you will work closely with him in designing algorithms and software, preparing publications for high-visibility journals and conferences, organising minisymposiums with invited speakers, writing technical blog posts, presenting research at national and international conferences as well as internally at the School of Computing, working with international project partners and industrial partners, maintaining academic collaborations through regular meetings and exchange of knowledge, and working with undergraduate, MSc, and PhD students where required.

You will be in the Computational Science & Engineering research theme of the School of Computing and become a member of the Scientific Computing research group of academics, PDRAs and post-graduate researchers working on a wide array of topics, including partial-differential equations for fluid dynamics, numerical linear algebra, scientific machine learning, computer arithmetic, numerical analysis, algorithm design, software and hardware benchmarking and performance optimization, and hardware design and analysis. You will become a member of a new informal group Leeds Mathematical Hardware and Software Lab.

We are recruiting a Research Fellow to work on the ‘My First 1000 Days’ project, a project aimed at improving the long-term development and life chances of children born into some of Britain’s most disadvantaged communities. Funded by a substantial donation from an individual donor, the project will harness expertise from research groups across the University and work with a range of regional and international partners. This project has differing workstreams that represent a holistic approach to the crucial first 1000 days of a child’s life. The project will determine the feasibility of implementing group care with new parents/caregivers and their 0–2-year-olds in Leeds. It is anticipated that the project outcomes will influence and inform national policy, especially around how supporting early parenting can impact language and cognitive development, healthy behaviours, and support the flourishing of disabled children.

You will be responsible for the My First 1000 Days research activities which will include setting up and implementing a feasibility study and undertaking qualitative and quantitative evaluations. You will report to Professor Jason Halford.

The University of Leeds is one of the top 75 universities in the world.  We have a truly global community, with more than 39,000 students from 170 different countries and over 9,000 staff of 100 different nationalities.  Established in 1904, we have a strong tradition of academic excellence, reflected in first-class student education, along with world-leading research that has a real impact around the globe. 

We are looking for Social Care Research and Development Fellows aligned with our world-leading research. The School of Healthcare is investing in its research capacity and capability, recruiting one Senior Fellow and two Fellows. The School of Healthcare leads Leeds’ contribution to the NIHR School for Social Care Research (Phase IV) and NICHE-Leeds (a partnership between science and care in the city). The posts will help us develop our research into Ageing Well and Quality and Safety. You will work with world-leading researchers, furthering our aims of impactful applied research of the highest quality, making a positive difference to society. You will work closely with colleagues in our research teams in the School and will join our teams to deliver our ambitious social care research portfolio.

Our portfolio focuses on questions that matter for social care and that will enhance quality of life and care for people accessing care, and/or quality of work for staff employed in the sector. Our areas of research include: technologies to enhance care and outcomes, quality and safety; the role of data and information in providing better care; supporting personal care (e.g. mouth care); social care workforce. Our methods range from working with big data; social network analysis; qualitative and mixed methods studies; and complex intervention development and evaluation. We don’t just “do research”; a key part of our work is developing capacity and skills and mobilising knowledge – working with the right people (people accessing social care, their families, care staff, providers, commissioners) to make a difference in practice and policy. We will expect you to be willing to work with our range of partners and be flexible in the approaches you use.  

Primarily focussing on research, you will be a key member of our School. Working closely with academic colleagues, you will help lead and deliver existing research. Our work is shaping health and social care practice and policy and developing methodology and science in social care.  You will have a key role in grant writing, ensuring we continue to lead research in this field through sustained income generation. 

We are looking for Senior Research Fellow (Social Care Research and Development) aligned with our world-leading research. The School of Healthcare is investing in its research capacity and capability, recruiting one Senior Fellow and two Fellows. The School of Healthcare leads Leeds’ contribution to the NIHR School for Social Care Research (Phase IV) and NICHE-Leeds (a partnership between science and care in the city). The posts will help us develop our research into Ageing Well and Quality and Safety. You will work with world-leading researchers, furthering our aims of impactful applied research of the highest quality, making a positive difference to society. You will work closely with colleagues in our research teams in the School and will join our teams to deliver our ambitious social care research portfolio.

Our portfolio focuses on questions that matter for social care and that will enhance quality of life and care for people accessing care, and/or quality of work for staff employed in the sector. Our areas of research include: technologies to enhance care and outcomes, quality and safety; the role of data and information in providing better care; supporting personal care (e.g. mouth care); social care workforce. Our methods range from working with big data; social network analysis; qualitative and mixed methods studies; and complex intervention development and evaluation. We don’t just “do research”; a key part of our work is developing capacity and skills and mobilising knowledge – working with the right people (people accessing social care, their families, care staff, providers, commissioners) to make a difference in practice and policy. We will expect you to be willing to work with our range of partners and be flexible in the approaches you use.  

Primarily focussing on research and contributing to research-led education, you will be a key member of our School. Working closely with academic colleagues, you will help lead and deliver existing research. Our work is shaping health and social care practice and policy and developing methodology and science in social care. You will lead on grant writing, leading research in this field through sustained income generation. 

You will join a team of climate and atmospheric scientists at the University of Leeds to work on two complementary projects funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and Department for Transport (DfT) research programme “Jet zero: Aviation’s non-CO2 impacts on the climate”. You will work with Dr Alex Rap, Prof Amanda Maycock and Prof Piers Forster, employing the SOCRATES radiative transfer scheme and line-by-line models to quantify the contrail radiative forcing from climate-optimised aircraft designs and alternative fuels. You will also collaborate closely with the other researchers involved in the projects at the University of Southampton, Imperial College London, and University College London, as well as with our project partners Airbus and Rolls-Royce.

The ‘Contrail Assessment of Future Aircraft and Propulsion Architectures’ project is a collaboration between research groups at the University of Southampton and the University of Leeds. The overarching aim of the project is to assess the contrail climate impact of future low-CO2 aircraft by incorporating rigorous analysis of turbulence/microphysics interactions into climate-optimised aircraft design. The ‘Contrails from SAF and H2 combustion; from lab experiments to global mitigation policy’ is a partnership between Imperial College London, University College London and the University of Leeds. The aim of the project is to assess the impact of alternative aircraft fuels (sustainable aviation fuels, SAF, and hydrogen) on contrail formation and radiative forcing and model the feedback arising from the different aviation climate impacts on future aviation policy.  

You will have, or be close to obtaining, a PhD in the field of Atmospheric Science (or a closely related field). You will have knowledge of atmospheric and/or climate modelling and evidence of a strong commitment to publishing scientific results at an international level. Experience of radiative transfer modelling and quantifying aviation climate impacts are desirable.

Please note that this post may be suitable for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route but first-time applicants might need to qualify for salary concessions. For more information please visit: www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa.

You will work with Dr Paula Clarke (School of Education) and Professor Cristina Leston-Bandeira (School of Politics and International Studies) in this inter-disciplinary project co-developed with the UK Parliament on enhancing evaluation of democratic engagement programmes. You will have (or be near completion) a relevant doctorate in a related topic. You will possess excellent research, analytical and writing skills and the ability to deal with a variety of tasks to set deadlines. The ability to work alone and as part of a team are essential, along with strong organisational skills. 

The University of Leeds is a diverse, multi-cultural environment. We welcome applications from all sections of society and you will be expected to work within University values and policies, which are designed to promote dignity, diversity, and inclusiveness. 

Are you an ambitious researcher looking for your next challenge? Do you have a background in mixed method and applied health research? Do you want to further your career in one of the UK’s leading research-intensive Universities?  

The Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development has been awarded funding from Bradford Integrated Care Board to evaluate the implementation of a faith- sensitive therapy for depression in Muslim communities. This 18-month study will involve drawing on research evidence to support the implementation process and developing guidance for primary care and voluntary sector mental health services wishing to implement the culturally adapted approach. This will add to current knowledge on implementation of culturally-sensitive interventions, for which evidence is currently limited.  

You will contribute to all aspects of the project delivery as required. The main roles will include research activities to inform a sustainable training model, the adoption of effective implementation strategies and development of an implementation toolkit. You will synthesise existing research evidence on implementing interventions to address health inequities and collect and analyse qualitative data from mental health professionals and people from Muslim backgrounds with lived experience of depression. You will also support a Quality Improvement Collaborative made up of all relevant stakeholders and an Advisory Group of people with lived experience, for which you will need excellent communication skills.

Are you a collaborative and self-motivated researcher looking for your next challenge? Do you have an interest in improving care for people living with dementia? Do you want to further your career in one of the UK’s leading research-intensive Universities?

We are seeking to appoint Research Fellows/Senior Research Fellows to join our National Institute for Health Research Applied Research Collaboration, Yorkshire & Humber (NIHR ARC YH) Dementia Capacity Building Postdoctoral Training Programme. The posts are funded as part of a prestigious NIHR ARC YH & Alzheimer’s Society award and will be based at the Academic Unit for Ageing & Stroke Research, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, located at the Bradford Institute for Health Research. The successful applicant(s) will join a regional network of dementia researchers, in partnership with the Centre for Applied Dementia Studies, University of Bradford, and national NIHR ARC Dementia Postdoctoral Researcher Network. 

NIHR ARC YH have prioritised research into prevention of dementia as a major evidence gap, with a focus on the 12 potentially modifiable risk factors outlined in the 2020 Lancet Commission report on dementia prevention, intervention and care. Our NIHR ARC YH Dementia Capacity Building Postdoctoral Training Programme will involve novel research to investigate.

We anticipate appointing postdoctoral researchers with a mix of methodological expertise. This includes researchers with qualitative research expertise, including intervention co-design, and researchers with expertise in epidemiology/biostatistics, including the use of routine health and care data for research. Although experience in dementia research is desirable, we recognise that many research skills are transferable, so encourage researchers who have experience in other related areas of health and care research to apply. 

The NIHR YH ARC Dementia Capacity Building Network is co-led by Andrew Clegg, Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the Academic Unit for Ageing & Stroke Research, University of Leeds and Siobhan Reilly, Professor of Applied Dementia Research at the Centre for Applied Dementia Studies, University of Bradford. The posts will be supported through the transition to independent researchers by the co-leads and their wider research teams, with the goal of building long-term research capacity in this strategically important area. 

 

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Postdoc Fellowship Position summary/title: Research Fellow in Architecture

Deadline :01 October 2024

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Leeds University Business School (LUBS) is a full service business school built on the rigour of disciplinary strength while working in a pluralistic way to deliver impactful research and education. With a research environment judged to be conducive to producing world leading and internationally excellent research by the REF 2021 panel, the Faculty is investing substantially in the further development of this environment through the Faculty’s two year Post Doctoral Fellowship Scheme We are looking for enthusiastic and highly motivated individuals who can make a significant contribution to our research activities. You will receive a structured programme of support.  Dedicated mentors will work with you and advise you on journal article preparation and submission, grant application, and new research and career trajectories. You will also have opportunities to develop teaching skills by undertaking teaching duties at definite, identifiable points in the year.