Category: <span>Jobs</span>

Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowships – closing 6 Nov 2025

Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowships are open to experienced researchers, particularly those who are or have been prevented by routine duties from completing a programme of original research. Priority will be given to applicants whose teaching and administrative duties have significantly impacted their ability to undertake research in the three years …

Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship – closing 28 Oct 2025

The Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship (DHF) programme aims to support outstanding early career scientists who require a flexible working pattern due to personal circumstances, such as caring responsibilities and/or health-related conditions. The programme aims to enable the next generation of research leaders to: Build an independent research career at a UK …

Royal Society Short Industry Fellowship – closing 23 Oct 2025

Deadline: 23 Oct 2025 This scheme is part of the Royal Society’s Industry programme, and facilitates short dynamic engagements between scientists employed in industry or academia (including postdoctoral researchers), enabling the parties to collaborate on a mutually beneficial project. Awards can be held full time for 3-6 months, or 50% …

Royal Society Career Development Fellowship 2026

Funder webinar: 7 Oct 2025 12-13:00 UK Register here Submission deadline: 19 Nov 2025 The Royal Society’s Career Development Fellowship scheme for 2026 is a 4-year programme that aims to support retention in STEM of researchers from underrepresented groups, particularly those making the transition from postgraduate to early postdoctoral stages.  …

Royal Society Industry Fellowships – deadline 18 Sept 2025

The Royal Society’s Industry Fellowship scheme is open to UK-based academic and industrial researchers from early to senior career stages. The scheme aims to: Support the mobility of excellent researchers between the two sectors in the UK across the natural sciences Enable the Industry Fellow to develop and establish collaborative …

Cranfield PhD opportunities in Nature-based solutions – closing soon!

Deadline: 6 August 2025 Don’t miss these funded PhD studentships at Cranfield University which are closing soon: Unveiling and enhancing nature-based solutions for mitigating emerging micropollutants Establishing the potential for improved management of intermittent sewage discharges with nature-based solutions These topics build on the work carried out by Dr Tao …

UKWIR Project Manager role – last chance to apply (closing 20 July 2025)

Closing date: Midnight on Sunday 20 July 2025. UKWIR is seeking a Project Manager to oversee delivery of a subset of projects from its research programme, of relevance and value to its members which comprise 18 water companies in the UK and Ireland. The role requires a level of leadership …

PhD opportunity in MIC

Deadline: 15 June 2025 Location: University of Liverpool This PhD project brings together expertise in nanoscale surface science and local scale electrochemistry, cell-surface interaction probes, microbiology and imaging across physical and biological sciences to study the electrochemical process that occurs both at the local site and single cell level and …

PhD Opportunity: Continuous-flow Dark Fermentation of Wheat Straw by Anaerobic Fungi to Produce Hydrogen Gas and Organic Acids

Deadline: 3 February 2025. This is a competition funded PhD Project (UK Students Only). Based at the Department of Biology, University of York. Supervisors: Dr. Matthew Reilly (Biology), Prof. James Chong (Biology) and Prof. Alison Parkin (Chemistry). Based in the internationally recognised Centre of Excellence for Anaerobic Digestion (CEAD) the …

Last Chance! PhD opportunity on Bio-engineering of Biochar. Deadline: 15 January 2025

PhD opportunity: Bio-engineering of biochar for enhanced remediation of contaminated environments, Heriot-Watt University. Deadline: Wednesday, January 15, 2025. This is a funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only) based in the School of Engineering & Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University with Dr Tony Gutierrez. This project proposes an innovative systematic approach …

3 x PhD Studentships on Exploring Economic Viability and Market Development of Products from Anaerobic Digestion. Deadline: 24 January 2025

The University College Cork, Ireland has 3 PhD Studentships in MaREI’s Circular Economy Energy and Environmental Systems Research Group available – apply by 24th January 2025. PhD 1: Optimal pathways for valorisation of digestate derived from agricultural feedstocks PhD 2: : Optimal pathways for biogenic CO2 conversion to biochemicals or …

London Interdisciplinary Biosciences Programme (LIDo). Application deadline: 11 December 2024

The BBSRC-funded London Interdisciplinary Biosciences Programme (LIDo) is an exciting collaboration between eight of London’s world-class universities and specialist institutions, working closely with a constellation of external partners from industry, government, and charities. Since 2012, LIDo has been providing fully-funded PhD studentships to pursue innovative interdisciplinary research projects. Research opportunities …

Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership – multiple PhD opportunities. Deadline: 25 November 2025

The Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership (NRPDTP) offers fully funded PhD studentships at one of the largest, successful centres for biological and biotechnological research and training in Europe. The NRPDTP is unique in bringing together the resources of five world-class research institutions on a single site – the …