Graduate Research Assistant

About The Role

Graduate Research Assistant
This part-time (0.4 FTE) post is available from 3rd August 2026. This post is offered as a fixed-term contract and is funded by NERC until 31 October 2028. Please note that applications for the role will be considered at a higher FTE over a shorter contract length, subject to approval. Please indicate on your application if you would be interested in this.

Salary will be £33,951 per annum pro rata on Grade E subject to knowledge, skills and experience.

The Role
The Faculty of Health and Life Sciences wishes to recruit a Graduate Research Associate to support the work of Prof. Darren Croft. The successful applicant will assist with the collection and analysis of video and photographic in collaboration with the Center for Whale Research on the Southern Resident Killer Whales.

The post will include:
Undertaking a broad range of basic research activity according to the nature of the research project. For example preparing, setting up, conducting and recording the outcome of experiments and field work, developing questionnaires and conducting surveys, using straightforward mathematical modelling, statistical techniques or scientific computation.

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 proposals and applications to external bodies.

Applicants will be educated to first degree level or possess an equivalent qualification/experience in a related field of study or equivalent experience and be able to demonstrate sufficient knowledge in the discipline and of research methods and techniques to work within established research programmes.

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

Further information
Please contact Darren Croft, Professor of Behavioural Ecology, d.p.croft@exeter.ac.uk.

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