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Lecturer (Below the Bar) in Education

University College Cork - School of Education

Placed on: 15/04/2026 Salary: £37,055.05 to £63,649.06 - please see advert

Closes 19 May

Lecturer (Teaching) in Creative Writing

Coventry University Group (CUG) - College of Arts and Society / School of Social Sciences and Humanities

Placed on: 21/04/2026 Salary: £38,781 to £44,093 per annum (dependent upon experience) with the potential to progress

Closes 19 May

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Part Time) – Grade 7

University of Liverpool - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences / School of Law and Social Justice / Department of Law

Placed on: 21/04/2026 Salary: £39,906 per annum

Closes 19 May

Head of Research Impact

University of Birmingham - Research Strategy & Services Division

Placed on: 28/04/2026 Salary: £58,225 to £67,468

Closes 19 May

KTP Associate - Structural Innovation Engineer (Maritime Heritage)

University of Greenwich - School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences

Placed on: 05/05/2026 Salary: £35,454 per annum

Closes 19 May

Senior Lecturer/Consultant Physician, Medical Education, (Clinical Pharmacology)

Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin - School of Medicine

Placed on: 06/05/2026 Salary: Not specified.

Closes 20 May

SAIL Information Governance Coordinator

Swansea University - Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Science

Placed on: 06/05/2026 Salary: £29,959 to £33,482 per annum

Closes 20 May

Senior Research Associate in Flood Risk

University of Bristol - Physical Geography

Placed on: 22/04/2026 Salary: £43,482 to £50,253 per annum, Grade: J/Pathway 2

Closes 20 May

Teaching Fellow in Animation

The University of Edinburgh - Design

Placed on: 22/04/2026 Salary: £41,064 to £48,822 per annum pro rata

Closes 20 May

Research Associate - Clean Cooking and Agroforestry

Loughborough University - School of Social Sciences and Humanities - Geography and Environment

Placed on: 28/04/2026 Salary: £35,608 to £37,694 per annum. Specialist and Supporting Academic Research grade 6. Subject to annual pay award.

Closes 20 May

Post-Doctoral Research Associate, MoonRISE (FBL)

The Open University - The Law School

Placed on: 30/04/2026 Salary: £38,784 to £46,049

Closes 20 May

Post Doctoral Research Associate, MoonRISE (FASS)

The Open University - Geography

Placed on: 30/04/2026 Salary: £38,784 to £46,049

Closes 20 May

PhD Studentship: Decommissioning Cultures and Communities: understanding culture change from operation to decommissioning in a large nuclear facility (NDA funded)

University of Exeter - Geography

Placed on: 01/05/2026 Salary: £22,442 UK tuition fees and an annual tax-free stipend of at least the UKRI minimum stipend

Closes 20 May

2x Resident Senior Policy Fellows, Bloomberg LSE European City Leadership Initiative

London School of Economics and Political Science - LSE Cities

Placed on: 19/05/2026 Salary: From £63,370 per annum, and the salary scale can be found on the LSE website

Closes 21 May

Research Manager

Imperial College London - The Grantham Institute for Climate Change

Placed on: 08/05/2026 Salary: £57,785 to £69,365 per annum

Closes 21 May

Lecturer in Criminal Law

The University of Edinburgh - Law

Placed on: 24/04/2026 Salary: £50,253 to £61,759 per annum

Closes 21 May

Lecturer (Teaching & Research) in Occupational Therapy - 11239

Brunel University London - Department of Health Sciences

Placed on: 30/04/2026 Salary: £45,390 to £58,263 inclusive of London Weighting with potential to progress to £65,236 per annum inclusive of London Weighting through sustained exceptional contribution. (Pro-rata if Part-time) Grade 8

Closes 21 May

Postdoctoral Research Associate - Grade 7

University of Liverpool - Faculty of Health and Life Sciences - Institute of Population Health - Department of Psychology

Placed on: 30/04/2026 Salary: £39,906 to £46,049 per annum

Closes 21 May

Senior Lecturer in Social Work

De Montfort University

Placed on: 01/05/2026 Salary: £44,746 to £56,535

Closes 21 May

Senior Lecturer in Social Work

De Montfort University

Placed on: 01/05/2026 Salary: £44,746 to £56,535

Closes 21 May

Programme Administrator (813590)

University of Strathclyde - Strathclyde Business School

Placed on: 08/05/2026 Salary: £28,031 to £30,378 per annum

Closes 22 May

ARC Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Rehabilitation

University of Oxford - Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS)

Placed on: 24/04/2026 Salary: £39,424 to £42,794 per annum. This is inclusive of a pensionable Oxford University Weighting of £1,730 per year. Grade 7

Closes 22 May

Head of Public Affairs

GuildHE

Placed on: 27/04/2026 Salary: Competitive

Closes 22 May

Policy and Public Affairs Manager

Quadram Institute Bioscience

Placed on: 27/04/2026 Salary: £45,450 to £56,750

Closes 22 May

History: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Studentship (Fully Funded) in History with The National Archives

Swansea University - School of Culture and Communication

Placed on: 01/05/2026 Salary: Covers full tuition, £21,805 stipend (2026/27), plus up to £1,000 yearly for research costs.

Closes 22 May

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