Research Fellow in Psychology

Location: City Campus

About the Role

• Conduct research into the psychology of trust, especially trust in high-risk activities and roles
• May include vignette experiments; behavioural experiments; interviews and qualitative analysis
• Work with a team of researchers investigating how rules impact trust and morality

Interviews week commencing: 1st September 2025

For more details, please take a look at the Job Description document, below. We'll still consider applications even if you don't meet every single one of the requirements, so don't be put off if you don't match them perfectly.

About Us

NTU Psychology is recognised nationally and internationally for delivering theoretically informed and applied research. Within the UK we are the largest provider of full-time undergraduate degrees in psychology. Our pre-covid NSS scores for overall satisfaction was above 90% for eight years and since covid have been ahead of the sector average and sector benchmarks. We provide a learning experience of the highest quality to our students and pride ourselves as being at the forefront of sector innovations in teaching and learning. As a department we have co-written the introductory Essential Psychology textbook for SAGE, recently completing the 4th edition.

Our excellence is recognised internationally, with the recent QS 2023 World University rankings, putting us in the top 150 departments for psychology worldwide. At NTU Psychology we are committed to quality, diversity and inclusion and have achieved Athena SWAN recognition at the department level. You will be joining a very large, lively, diverse, collegiate and ambitious team. Colleagues in the department have a range of backgrounds, spanning most areas of psychology, which is reflected in the range of our research groups and our course portfolio.

For any informal queries about the role or the team, please contact Tom Kupfer (Senior Lecturer) at tom.kupfer@ntu.ac.uk