Postdoc Opportunities in International Relations in United Kingdom

The University of Leeds is inviting applications for a 20-month Postdoctoral Fellowship in Adult Social Care Research, based at the Leeds Main Campus in the United Kingdom. The fellowship is designed for an outstanding postdoctoral researcher who wants to develop into an independent adult social care researcher. The successful Fellow will develop and deliver an original programme of research within the School of Healthcare, hosted by Nurturing Innovation in Care Home Excellence in Leeds (NICHE-L...

The University of Manchester is seeking a full-time Research Fellow to join a Wellcome-funded project evaluating the impact of upcoming UK social media restrictions on young people’s mental health and wellbeing. Based in the School of Environment, Education & Development within the Education Division, the Research Fellow will coordinate participant recruitment and data collection for ecological momentary assessment and interviews, contribute to qualitative and quantitative analyses, prepare evid...

The Stone Centre at University College London is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for a one- to two-year position starting on 1 September 2027. The successful applicant will research the drivers of wealth concentration and the dimensions of inequality , examining how these factors shape political outcomes, representation, and voice. The role is particularly relevant to researchers in applied microeconomics, macroeconomics, and empirical methods. The fellow will also contribute to teachi...

The Cambridge Interfaith Programme (CIP), based in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge , invites applications for a fixed-term Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in its Peace, Conflict and Religion research programme. The successful early-career researcher will develop an independent, three-year project examining how people and communities create, experience, contest, and sustain peace in contexts of conflict and political violence. Relevant research may explore the cultural, re...

The University of Greenwich is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems , based at the Medway Campus within the Natural Resources Institute (NRI), Faculty of Engineering and Science. The post is part of IP-STATS , a five-year ERC-funded project advancing epistemically diverse quantitative research on Indigenous Peoples’ food systems. The successful researcher will join the Livelihoods and Institutions Department and work with an interdisciplinary and intercul...

The University of Greenwich is recruiting a Research Fellow in Indigenous Peoples’ Data Governance , based at the Medway Campus within the Natural Resources Institute (NRI), Faculty of Engineering and Science. The post is part of IP-STATS, a five-year ERC-funded project advancing epistemically diverse quantitative research on Indigenous Peoples’ food systems. The successful researcher will work in the Livelihoods and Institutions Department alongside an interdisciplinary and intercultural team, ...

Queen Mary University of London is advertising a 12-month, part-time (0.5 FTE) Postdoctoral Research Associate position supporting DigiWeB (Digital Welfare Borders) , an ERC-funded project examining how artificial intelligence shapes welfare governance and migration management across Europe. The role is jointly based in the School of Society and the Environment and the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science , and the successful candidate will work with Professor Rachel Humphris an...

Research Fellow in Sociology / Religion and Extractive Industry Struggles at the University of Warwick, Department of Sociology. This is a fixed-term, full-time research post on the ERC-funded RAIDS project: Religious Authority in Extractive Industry Struggles , led by Professor Claire Blencowe. The project examines how religion, spiritual authority, and forms of “soft power” operate in conflicts over mining and extractive infrastructure, with a specific focus for this post on case studies in th...

Research Associate opportunity at The University of Manchester in the Department of Civil Engineering and Management , based at Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom . The project is an interdisciplinary study on learning from incidents across high-hazard and safety-critical sectors, including construction, oil and gas, aviation, healthcare, and nuclear . The successful candidate will help develop and validate a practical cross-sector framework for transferring lessons from industrial incident...