Assistant Professor (Teaching Focussed) (111112-1225)

Location: University of Warwick Campus, Coventry

About the Role 

For informal enquiries, please contact Professor Andrea Isoni (Head of Behavioural Science) at andrea.isoni@wbs.ac.uk.

The Behavioural Science Group are recruiting for an Assistant Professor post for the current academic year (2025/26).

Warwick Business School is a research-led, triple accredited university-based business school with a portfolio of world class programmes. We are continuing our search for outstanding academics to join our faculty.

Applications are invited at the level of Assistant Professor in Behavioural Science.

We are looking for a scholar who is carrying out world-class research that will have lasting international impact. The successful candidate will be an ambitious and collegial early career scholar who will contribute to research and teaching with the in the Behavioural Science Group. WBS, and Warwick more broadly, is internationally renowned for interdisciplinary work on pure and applied behavioural science, and Behavioural Science is central to one of the University’s Interdisciplinary Research Spotlights

We are open to applications from researchers with a strong background in the behavioural sciences. We are interested researchers who specialise in:

• Behavioural or experimental economics;
• the psychology of judgement and decision-making;
• behavioural change; and
• the data science of human behaviour.

About You

Assistant Professors will have completed their doctoral studies and may have some post-doctoral research experience. In addition, they will have the capacity to publish at the top level, demonstrated by publications or strong working papers. The successful candidate will also have an ambitious future research agenda.

A demonstrable ability to teach behavioural science would be an advantage. 

For details on the experience and skills required, please refer to the job description

CLOSING DEADLINE: Sunday 11 January 2026 at 11:55pm (UK Time)

Full details of the duties and selection criteria for this role can be found in the vacancy advert on the University of Warwick's jobs pages. You will be routed to this when you click on the 'Apply' button.

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