Postdoc Opportunities in Political Science in United Kingdom

The University of Reading is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to join LAMDA (Land–atmosphere interactions as a mechanism of dryland formation) , an ERC Starting Grant project led by Dr Akash Koppa in the Department of Geography and Environmental Science. The project develops a new theory of how humid regions transition into drylands. It combines paleoclimatic reconstructions with Earth system, ecosystem-demography, and atmospheric-transport models to investigate how drylands, vegetation, and...

The University of Birmingham’s School of Social Policy and Society is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to lead original research on suicide and homicide risk among young carers. The role is based at the University’s Edgbaston campus in Birmingham and contributes to research at the intersection of public health, sociology, psychology, social policy, and social care. The researcher will undertake literature reviews and collect, analyse, and interpret qualitative data. A central part of the p...

The University of Oxford’s Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for its Economics, Inequality, and Opportunity team. The project is focused on advancing research into economic and social inequality. The successful researcher will contribute original ideas to inequality research and work in an interdisciplinary environment that brings together economists, sociologists, policy researchers, and related scholars. The team is committe...

The University of Oxford’s Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative (AIGI Oxford) is seeking a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher in AI Verification (Political) to join the Oxford Martin School in Oxford, United Kingdom. The researcher will play a leading role in a grant-funded project examining technical and political pathways for verifying that computational rules are being followed in AI data centres. The project is designed to help states develop viable, privacy-preserving and attack-resistant ver...

The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and the Institute for Technology and Humanity at the University of Cambridge invite applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join the Cambridge Digital Minds research group, directed by Dr Lucius Caviola. The researcher will work closely with senior researchers including Dr Bradford Saad and Dr Caspar Kaiser. The role supports rigorous empirical, computational, theoretical or policy research on digital minds and artificial intelli...

The University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join the Oxford Climate Policy Hub at Radcliffe Observatory Quarter in Oxford. The role focuses on climate policy, regulation and governance across sectors and jurisdictions. The fellow will work collaboratively to develop innovative research on how climate policies and regulations are designed, interact and spread in different contexts. The project involves designing and adapting research m...

The University of Exeter is recruiting a part-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join PHOENix: Planetary Health Optimisation for Enhancing Nutrition and Food Security Through School Feeding Programmes in Egypt . The five-year programme is funded by a Wellcome Early-Career Award and led by Dr Fatma Sabet. PHOENix investigates how Egypt’s school feeding programmes work, for whom they work and in what circumstances. The project aims to co-produce school meals with communities that are nutritious,...

The University of Cambridge is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join the Soft Matter Group in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. The project is supported by a UKRI grant titled “Nucleation and Extinction in Non-equilibrium Statistical Field Theories” . The research will extend tools from large deviation theory to field-theoretic models of non-equilibrium systems. These models can describe phase-transition dynamics in active fluids, species invasion into ne...

Aston University is inviting recent PhD graduates to consider an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship through its 2027 scheme. The fellowship is designed for early-career researchers seeking to build on their doctoral research through further scholarly development. The scheme supports work that extends a PhD into new publications, research networks and professional development. Applicants interested in pursuing the opportunity at Aston University can discuss the fellowship with Chanaka Jayawardhena, Pro...