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Faculty Position (Ageing and Health Management) in HeXie Management Research Centre
HeXie Management Research Centre
Xi'an Jiaotong - Liverpool University
Location: Suzhou
Salary: Competitive
Date Placed: 25 Oct
Expires 24 Dec
Research Associate (Child Rights and Education for Peacebuilding), (0.8 FTE)
School of Education
Ulster University
Location: Coleraine
Salary: £33,020 to £41,086 Pro rata / Grade: Research 6-7
Date Placed: 24 Oct
Closes 07 Nov
PRA - Strategic Lead for Social Care
NIHR Research Support Service (RSS)
Newcastle University
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Salary: £58,225 to £59,966 per annum
Date Placed: 24 Oct
Closes 14 Nov
Policy Fellow and Researcher - Economic Strategy
Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
University of Oxford
Location: Oxford
Salary: £39,424 to £47,779 (with discretionary range to £53,483 per annum)
Date Placed: 24 Oct
Closes 10 Nov
Post Doctoral Research Fellow (0.6fte) (After the Riots)
Faculty of Arts, Business and Social Sciences
University of Wolverhampton
Location: Wolverhampton
Salary: £41,064 to £48,822 pa (Pro Rata for Part Time)
Date Placed: 24 Oct
Closes 11 Nov
Climate and Public Health Policy Impact Fellow
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: £36,636 to £46,049 Grade 7
Date Placed: 24 Oct
Closes 06 Nov
The Estonia-Oxford Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship in Baltic Studies 2026-2027
St Antony’s College
University of Oxford
Location: Oxford
Salary: £20,000
Date Placed: 24 Oct
Closes 15 Dec
Research Associate
School of Health & Wellbeing
University of Glasgow
Location: Glasgow
Salary: £41,064 to £46,049 per annum
Date Placed: 24 Oct
Closes 07 Nov
LSE PhD Studentships for 2026
London School of Economics and Political Science
Location: London
Salary: The studentships will be awarded across the School, providing full fees plus an annual stipend
Date Placed: 24 Oct
Closes 14 Jan
Full or Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy
School of Public Policy
London School of Economics and Political Science
Location: London
Salary: £80,927 to £107,994 Full Professor/Associate Professor
Date Placed: 24 Oct
Closes 30 Nov
Lecturer in Human Geography
The University of Manchester
Location: Manchester
Salary: £37,694 to £46,049 per annum depending on experience
Date Placed: 23 Oct
Closes 06 Nov
Research Associate
Wales Centre for Public Policy
Cardiff University
Location: Cardiff
Salary: £41,064 to £46,049 per annum (Grade 6)
Date Placed: 23 Oct
Closes 20 Nov
Post Doctoral Research Associate
Bartlett School of Planning (BSP)
UCL
Location: London, Hybrid
Salary: £43,981 to £52,586
Date Placed: 23 Oct
Closes 21 Nov
Lecturer (Teaching) Quantitative Social Sciences & Technologies
Arts and Sciences (UASc)
UCL
Location: London, Hybrid
Salary: £54,931 to £64,644
Date Placed: 23 Oct
Closes 05 Nov
Associate Professorship in Sociology
Department of Sociology and Nuffield College
University of Oxford
Location: Oxford
Salary: £58,265 to £77,645 per annum. Grade 10a (36S)
Date Placed: 23 Oct
Closes 05 Jan
Professor in Policing
Department for Policing
The Open University
Location: Milton Keynes
Salary: £77,277 to £105,027
Date Placed: 23 Oct
Closes 19 Nov
PhD (4-Year) Studentship - Difficult to Digitalise Hard Work: Barriers and Opportunities for Digital Adoption in Agri-Food Value Chains
ESRC Centre for Digital Futures at Work, Department of Management, University of Sussex Business School
University of Sussex
Location: Falmer
Salary: £21,383 per annum
Date Placed: 22 Oct
Closes 09 Jan
PhD (4-Year) Studentship - Digitalising Healthcare Work for Sustainability: Professional Tensions and Ethical Paradoxes
ESRC Centre for Digital Futures at Work, Department of Management, University of Sussex Business School
University of Sussex
Location: Falmer
Salary: £21,383 per annum
Date Placed: 22 Oct
Closes 09 Jan
LAW Associate Professor
Law
University of Nottingham
Location: Nottingham
Salary: £59,966 to £73,686 per annum pro-rata depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.
Date Placed: 22 Oct
Closes 27 Nov
Research Associate (Curiosity Partnership Researcher-in-Residence)
School for Business and Society
University of York
Location: York, Hybrid
Salary: £37,694 to £46,049 per annum
Date Placed: 22 Oct
Closes 12 Nov
Head of Department (Department of Health Professions and Social Work)
School of Health, Medicine and Life Science
University of Hertfordshire
Location: Hatfield
Salary: £74,481 to £85,320 by annual increments dependant on skills and experience. AM2 – AM3
Date Placed: 22 Oct
Closes 19 Nov
Community Researcher x2
Lincoln Institute for Rural and Coastal Health
University of Lincoln
Location: Lincoln
Salary: From £32,546 per annum
Date Placed: 22 Oct
Closes 09 Nov
PhD Studentship: Equitable Nature-based Solutions Deployment to Mitigate Urban Heat Islands
Geography and Environment
Loughborough University
Location: Loughborough
Salary: £20,780 per annum
Date Placed: 22 Oct
Closes 07 Jan
Research Fellow
Intellectual Disabilities Research Institute (Health Services Management Centre)
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: £36,636 to £46,049 with potential progression once in post to £48,822
Date Placed: 22 Oct
Closes 05 Nov
Lecturer in the Sociology of Social Justice and Inequalities (LTS)
School of Social and Political Sciences
University of Glasgow
Location: Glasgow
Salary: £41,064 to £46,049 per annum, Grade 7
Date Placed: 22 Oct
Closes 19 Nov

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