Graduate Research Assistant

This new part-time (15 hours a week) post is available from 1 October 2025 on a fixed term basis until 31 August 2028.

This is a part-time post available for 15 hours per week. The work pattern is flexible within the hours of 09:00 to 18:00 Monday to Friday.

We welcome applications from candidates interested in working part-time hours or job-sharing arrangements.

The post

The Faculty wishes to recruit a Graduate Research Assistant to support the work of Professor Gemma Sharp. This is a hybrid post based on the Exeter Streatham campus and remotely within the UK. It is funded by Wellcome Leap until 31^st August 2028. The successful applicant will co-ordinate activities as part of the Missed Vital Sign research project, which is creating a world-leading resource for menstrual health research.

The post will include working closely with Prof Sharp to ensure this highly innovative and fast-paced research project stays on track. This includes liaising with project partners, preparing research materials, managing data, running analysis scripts, facilitating workshops with members of the public, producing accessible outputs in lay language, and preparing and presenting progress reports.

About you

The successful applicant will be able to present information on research progress and outcomes, communicate complex information, orally, in writing and electronically and prepare reports to external bodies.

Applicants will be educated to first degree level or be able to demonstrate sufficient experience and knowledge in the discipline and of research methods and techniques to work within an established research programme. Applicants will be able to understand and communicate the research protocol and coordinate activities across multiple project areas.

Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role.

What we can offer you

• Freedom (and the support) to pursue your intellectual interests and to work creatively across disciplines to produce internationally exciting research;
• Support teams that understand the University wide research and teaching goals and partner with our academics accordingly
• An Innovation, Impact and Business directorate that works closely with our academics providing specialist support for external engagement and development
• Our Exeter Academic initiative supporting high performing academics to achieve their potential and develop their career

The University of Exeter

We are a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities and in the top 200 universities in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 and QS World University Ranking 2024). We combine world-class teaching with world-class research, achieving a Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework Award 2023, underpinned by Gold ratings for Student Experience and Student Outcomes. 

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commitment

We are committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments are available for interviews and workplaces.

Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our working community.  

Further information

For further information please contact Prof Gemma Sharp, e-mail g.c.sharp@exeter.ac.uk.

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