Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £36,636 to £46,049 with potential progression once in post to £48,822

Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract up to September 2028

The College of Medicine and Health (CMH) University of Birmingham offers pump-priming postdoctoral fellowship awards to early career researchers to support development of their independent research programme. This competitive fellowship scheme aims to support high-calibre post-doctoral researchers to develop proposals for submission to prestigious fellowships schemes such as NIHR Postdoctoral Awards, ERC starter grants, Future Leaders Fellowship, Wellcome / MRC Career Development Awards etc. The fellowship aims to boost the competitiveness of the post holder for these externally funded, independent fellowship applications by offering the opportunity to complete key research outputs in progress, develop new skills and/or generation of preliminary data. The post holder will work in a high-quality research environment and will be sponsored by a senior mentor for development of their independent research within the strategic areas of research in the CMH. The awards are open to both internal and external candidates and will provide salary of the fellow for up to 2 years and research costs. We are particularly keen to encourage applications from those who identify as female and who’s current area of research is in Applied Health.

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications and Experience Required

• First degree in area of specialism and normally, a higher degree relevant to research area or equivalent qualifications
• Demonstration of a competitive track record (research outputs, merits) for personal fellowship
• Possession of a research proposal in development, which will be advanced to submission to a funding body in the first year of the appointment
• Demonstration of the ability to utilise the appointment for strengthening your researcher profile towards competitiveness for externally funded fellowship (e.g. completion of research output, complementary skills training and/ or key preliminary data generation for a grant proposal)

Informal enquiries can be made to Tim Giles (t.giles@bham.ac.uk)

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