Postdoctoral Fellowship (12) at University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England

Applications are invited for the above post based at The University of Nottingham, University Park, with a base in the School of Humanities, Department of Music.

The purpose of this role will be to work on the project: ‘The Cultural Legacies of the British Empire: Classical Music’s Colonial History’ at the University of Nottingham in undertaking research (especially searching historical newspapers) and other activities to support the project. These may include organising workshops, conferences and other public-facing events, constructing bibliographies, preparing outputs for publication, data gathering and data entry, and contributing to the development of teaching resources and digital resources.

The successful candidate will meet regularly remotely and/or in-person with their line manager. The person appointed will have the opportunity to use their initiative and creativity to contribute to public engagement and knowledge exchange, develop research methods, and extend their research portfolio.

Applications are invited for a Research Fellow to join the University of Nottingham at the Sutton Bonington Campus working as part of a team to deliver a project awarded by Leverhulme Trust to understand plant performance and climate feedback mechanisms in the Middle Jurassic. The project will use an experimental framework, to link plant morphology and chemistry to measurements of ecophysiological performance. These combined datasets will be used to understand how plants performed and were adapted to the Middle Jurassic, a greenhouse episode in Earth history where global mean temperatures were approximately 5-10°C warmer than the 1970-2010 average.

The role will involve the generation of ecophysiological data as measurements of plant performance and generating morphological and anatomical trait data on experimental and fossils plants. These relationships will then be used to explore how plants from the Middle Jurassic were adapted and lived in their greenhouse world. 

Applications are invited for a Research Fellow to join the University of Nottingham at the Sutton Bonington Campus working as part of a team to deliver a project awarded by Leverhulme Trust to understand plant performance and climate feedback mechanisms in the Middle Jurassic greenhouse world. The project will use an experimental framework, to link plant morphology and chemistry to measurements of ecophysiological performance. These combined datasets will be used to understand how plants performed and were adapted to the Middle Jurassic, a greenhouse episode in Earth history where global mean temperatures were approximately 5-10°C warmer than the 1970-2010 average.

The role will involve undertaking plant taphonomy experiments and generating chemical data from experimental and fossils plants to compare with morphological and anatomical traits and measures of ecophysiological performance. These relationships will then be used to explore how plants from the Middle Jurassic were adapted and lived in their greenhouse world.

We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Research Associate/Fellow in Organic Chemistry with an interest in new approaches to the manufacturing of organic chemicals.  The post will involve carrying out photochemical and electrochemical reactions in exciting new reactor designs developed at the University of Nottingham for use in the pharmaceutical industry. The vision of the project is to apply a continuous photochemical reactor to help transform how medicines are manufactured.  [see for example APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY (2022) 76, 38-50; ORGANIC PROCESS RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT (2025) 29, 34-47; (2024), 28, 1917-1928; (2022) 26, 1145−1151; (2021) 25, 1619-1627 (2021) 25, 2052-2059; (2020), 24, 201-206; (2018) 22, 595-599]. The post is available to start immediately, and all projects should result in high impact publications. 

We are seeking a Research Associate/Fellow in Analytical Chemistry to transform the monitoring of pharmaceutical manufacturing and advancing sustainability through innovative automation, analytical science, and data-driven optimisation. You will accelerate the transition from batch to continuous flow processes. You will interact with project partners in the pharmaceutical sector to demonstrate the technology on high impact case studies. 

The post will involve applying a range of spectroscopic techniques to new flow reactor designs developed at the University of Nottingham. The vision of the project is to apply continuous reactors, including continuous photochemistry, electrochemistry, and thermal chemistry to transform how fine chemicals and medicines are manufactured.  [see for example APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY (2022) 76, 38-50; ORGANIC PROCESS RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT (2025) 29, 34-47; (2024), 28, 1917-1928; (2022) 26, 1145−1151; (2021) 25, 1619-1627 (2021) 25, 2052-2059; (2020), 24, 201-206; (2018) 22, 595-599]. 

The Mechanical and Aerospace Systems Research Group (MAS) requires a Senior Research Fellow who is experienced in the fields of solid mechanics and stress analysis to work across several industry relevant projects and for the development of future group research strategy. MAS has a large intra-disciplinary team of researchers, engineers, technicians, support staff and academics who work together to deliver research from fundamental to high TRL.  

The role holder will contribute to several projects by managing a growing research team while conducting their own investigations. As a senior research fellow, the role holder will also have an opportunity to work with the management team and direct future group research strategy. It is expected that the role holder will contribute to the development of several funding applications with a wide range of industrial partners and will be able to demonstrate a high degree of independence by proposing new research themes and approaches. The nature of the position demands a confident and self-starting individual who is looking to develop a wide academic skillset and who is keen to offer their own ideas.

A position is advertised for a self-motivated and ambitious Research Associate/Fellow to contribute to a major £5M BBSRC Strategic Longer and Larger (sLoLa) Grant investigating the fundamental rules governing impermeability in Gram-negative bacteria. This large-scale, multidisciplinary programme brings together investigators at the University of Nottingham, University of Birmingham, Imperial College London and the Quadram Institute to address antimicrobial resistance through the integration of bacterial membrane biology, efflux systems, antimicrobial accumulation, quantitative mass spectrometry, spatial metabolomics and mathematical modelling. The post is based within the Centre for Analytical Bioscience (CAB) in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Nottingham. CAB houses extensive specialist mass spectrometry instrumentation, including high-resolution Orbitrap platforms (QExactive, Fusion Lumos), triple quadrupole LC-MS/MS systems, and surface and imaging MS technologies (e.g. AP-MALDI-MS and OrbiSIMS), providing a high-quality research environment for metabolomics, lipidomics, fluxomics and spatial molecular analysis.

The Research Associate/Fellow will play a central role in delivering the mass spectrometry and metabolomics components of this nationally significant programme. The role will involve the design and implementation of advanced quantitative and spatial metabolomics workflows to characterise antimicrobial uptake, intracellular accumulation and metabolic responses in Gram-negative bacteria. The successful candidate will work closely with programme investigators across partner institutions to ensure alignment of experimental design, data generation and interpretation across work packages. 

We seek a Research Associate/Fellow to work on the synthesis and application of stimuli- responsive biomaterials within a recently awarded UKRI project “Ultrasound-Guided Activation and Imaging of Engineered Bacteria for Stroma Reprogramming”. The project is part of the Cross Research Council Responsive Mode scheme, and the job-holder will work in collaboration with research teams in Cambridge and Glasgow.

Candidates should have a PhD submitted or awarded in chemistry, pharmaceutics or a related discipline. Expertise in working with in situ gelling materials or cytocompatible polymers, as well as the characterisation of responsive matrices will be required for the role. Experience in controlled polymerisation techniques, advanced pharmaceutical characterisation and analytical methods, such as LC-MS/MS and HPLC, are highly desirable. We pride ourselves on the collegial and supportive culture created by our staff for our staff and students. We are dedicated to providing an environment which enables our staff to thrive and achieve their potential. Our commitment to Equality and Diversity has been recognised in the award of an Athena SWAN Silver Award.

We seek a predoctoral research assistant to join the Humphries’ group at the University of Nottingham on a BBSRC-funded project to study the neural basis of foraging, in collaboration with the groups of Matthew Apps (Birmingham) and Nathan Lepora (Bristol).

Whether choosing to leave one shop for another, switching TV programs, or seeking berries to eat, humans and other animals make endless stay-or-leave decisions, but how we make them is not well understood. The goal of this project is to find out if there is common cross-species decision algorithm for leaving and what that algorithm is.

You will create predictions for how foragers should vary in their stay-or-leave decisions for different types of decision algorithm. You will then get to test those predictions using data from humans and rodents tackling foraging tasks, to work out which algorithm best explains how foragers decide to leave.