Before you apply, you must complete the following mandatory steps:
- Identify your host school or faculty from the list below
- Contact the identified school contact to discuss your research proposal – see list below for details
- Ensure your proposed research aligns with identified strategic priority areas for your host school/department
- Follow the 'Apply now' link to the online form for your host school or faculty, which is listed below, and upload your CV and research proposal. The format of your CV or research proposal is provided in the individual application links below
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Recruitment timeline
6 October 2023
Expression of interest deadline
By 10 November 2023
Candidates invited to submit a full application
11 December 2023
Full application deadline
15 December 2023
Submit Head of School supporting statement
January 2024
Candidates invited to interview
April 2024 onwards
Fellows start
The vacancies
Faculty of Arts
All proposed work programmes should be interdisciplinary in nature, and have the potential to lead to large, collaborative funding bids in the medium term. They can be located in any discipline, but should be aligned with at least one of the faculty's strategic priorities, notably:
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Black-centred research, including Black studies
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Arts and Computing, including Digital Humanities
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Creative and Cultural Industries
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Health Humanities
Contact details
English: Graeme Docherty graeme.docherty@nottingham.ac.uk
Cultures, Languages and Area Studies (CLAS): Graham Thompson graham.thompson@nottingham.ac.uk
Humanities:
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School of English
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School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies
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School of Humanities
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Faculty of Engineering
We invite applications from all areas of engineering research. We encourage applications from excellent early career researchers to all of our research groups.
As part of the recruitment process, you must contact the Head of Research Group for the group that is best fit to host your fellowship to discuss your research and gain their confirmation of support for your application (this is shown at the top of the staff list under the 'meet the team' on the relevant research group page).
For 2023 we are particularly interested in applications in the areas of:
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Electrical Machines for sustainable transportation
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Super/hydrides for superconductivity or fast ion conductivity
We have further identified the following strategic areas where applications are particularly encouraged:
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Sustainable, low carbon and zero carbon process engineering
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Low carbon construction and civil engineering
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Climate resilience in the built environment
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Recycling, re-use and circular economy
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Future and renewable power systems
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Net zero transport and transportation electrification
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Digital manufacturing
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Artificial Intelligence and/or machine learning in engineering
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Smart buildings and structures
Contact details
Electrical machines for sustainable transportation: Professor Chris Gerada chris.gerada@nottingham.ac.uk
Super/hydrides for superconductivity or fast ion conductivity: Professor David Grant david.grant@nottingham.ac.uk
General enquiries for engineering applications: ez-eng-erke@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk
All other applicants – please contact the most relevant Head of Research Group initially to discuss (this is shown at the top of the staff list under the 'meet the team' on the relevant research group page)
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Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
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The School of Medicine is a large, vibrant School of staff and students working to improve the health and wellbeing of people in the UK and globally. We are inviting expressions of interest from applicants and are keen to hear from candidates aligned to our BRC themes, our institutes – the Biodiscovery Institute and the Institute of Mental Health and the new state of the art National Rehabilitation Centre.
Nottingham research fellows have access to clinical patients at the following locations. Research fellowship applications are welcome that complement the research interests of these sites.
- The Queens Medical Centre and Major Trauma Centre
- Nottingham City Hospital
- The National Rehabilitation Centre
- University Hospitals Derby and Nottingham City Healthcare
Find more and contact theme leads at nottinghambrc.nihr.ac.uk
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We encourage applications in the following priority areas:
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Children and young people's healthcare
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Digital interventions in healthcare and education
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Palliative and end of life care
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Maternal health and wellbeing
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Mental health
Contact details
General enquiries for health sciences applications: Sarah Redsell Sarah.Redsell@nottingham.ac.uk
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We encourage applications in the following research priority areas:
- Anatomy, Physiology and Nutrition
- Cellular and Developmental Biology
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Infections, Immunology, Virology and Parasitology
- Microbiology, Molecular Biology, and Biochemistry
- Neuroscience and Neuropathology
- Pharmacology and Drug Discovery
- Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology
Contact details
All queries regarding your research project and its fit with school research priorities should be directed to ls-fellowships@nottingham.ac.uk.
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We encourage applications in the following priority areas:
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Combating antimicrobial resistance
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AI and computational biology
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Virology: virus-host interaction and virus control
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Vaccine technology platform development
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Faculty of Science
Faculty of Social Sciences