Project Manager - "Critical Seeing" Project

About the Role

This is a great opportunity to apply your skills in project planning to a transdisciplinary research project in the School of the Arts, working closely with Professor Steven Eastwood to manage a range of activities.

Key responsibilities include:

• Coordinating with external academic, clinical and creative arts partners and supporting workstreams.
• Managing project workflows, overseeing budgets, ensuring compliance, facilitating workshops, organising conferences.
• Liaising with QMUL Finance/Research Office and with external service providers.

About You

We are seeking a Project Manager capable of handling complex workloads and engaging diverse stakeholder research activity effectively. You should have excellent communication skills and a solid understanding of university research project management.

Experience in transdisciplinary research and fields like medicine and medical ethics, ethnography, and practice-based research such as film is desirable.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project

Critical Seeing is a Wellcome Trust Discovery Award-funded project hosted by QMUL, running from 2026 to 2032. This transdisciplinary research project brings together methodologies from film practice, ethnography and deliberative science to address conflict arising within intensive care decision-making.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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