Postdoc Opportunities in Psychology in United Kingdom

The MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), part of UK Research and Innovation, is recruiting a full-time Postdoctoral Scientist to work in Dr Greg Jefferis’s group in Cambridge, United Kingdom. The project focuses on molecular connectomics in Drosophila . The successful researcher will develop methods to map neuronal gene and protein expression onto reference electron-microscopy connectomes and apply these approaches to investigate the development and organisation of sexually dimorphic neura...

UK Research and Innovation is recruiting a Postdoctoral Scientist in Neurobiology to work at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, United Kingdom. The three-year, full-time position is based in the Kornfeld and Jefferis groups and focuses on understanding how behaviours are encoded in the brain’s synaptic networks. The successful researcher will develop and apply novel approaches for large-scale connectomics, mapping and analysing synaptic connections in vertebrate and invertebra...

Queen Mary University of London is recruiting a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate in Psychology for a 36-month Leverhulme Trust-funded project, “Auditory Verbal Hallucinations: Pushing the Boundaries of Voice Perception.” The post is based in London within the School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences and the Centre for Brain and Behaviour, with membership of the VoCoLab. The successful researcher will investigate how people who experience auditory verbal hallucinations perceive exte...

King’s College London is recruiting a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. The post will support CATAPULTS, an NIHR i4i-funded feasibility randomised controlled trial evaluating RECOGNeyes, an eye-tracking cognitive training intervention designed to improve attention in children with ADHD. The successful candidate will coordinate trial activities across King’s College London, the University of Notting...

Research Fellow in Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation The University of Warwick is recruiting a full-time Research Fellow for the Nelson group in the School of Life Sciences, based in Coventry, United Kingdom. The fixed-term appointment runs to 28 February 2030 and is funded by a BBSRC standard research grant. The project investigates conserved gene-regulatory programmes governing nervous-system and pancreas development across jawed vertebrates. It will examine how highly conserved enhanc...

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 University of Cambridge is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Agentic AI for Cancer Care, based jointly in the Department of Radiology and the Early Cancer Institute and listed under the Department of Oncology. The successful researcher will join IMPACT-OC, a major European multi-centre project developing a multi-agent AI system for ovarian cancer. The project integrates medical imaging, genomics, histopathology, and clinical records, with privacy-preserving federated learning a...

The University of Cambridge’s Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for the Autonomous Materials Group, led by Associate Professor Shijing Sun. The position is suited to researchers with experience in inorganic synthesis and/or biomineralisation who are interested in combining materials chemistry with automated characterisation and AI-directed high-throughput experimentation . The work will contribute to autonomous approaches for advanced materials ...

The University of Reading is recruiting a full-time Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, based at Earley Gate Campus in the United Kingdom. The three-year, fixed-term post will contribute to an Eagles Autism Foundation-funded project investigating sensory hyperreactivity in autistic children. The successful researcher will prepare participants for magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) scanning, conduct MRI/MRS analysis, write findings for pu...