Total 79 Science / R&D / Research job vacancies in Headington, Oxford, OX3 9DU

We are hiring a full-time research associate to work on the BELINDYSYS research project, based at the Department of Computer Science. Under the supervision of Professor James Worrell, you will have responsibility for carrying out research on algorithmic questions on linear dynamical systems and extensions thereof, such as holonomic sequences and piecewise affine maps. This work draws on connections with a number of areas of computer science and mathematics, including verification, control theory, logic, and number theory. We will support your career development, through supporting your scientific work, and also through attendance to conferences, student supervision and supporting applications for personal fellowships, as appropriate.

You will hold a PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics or related discipline. You will possess either knowledge or a strong interest in in one or more of the following areas: linear recurrences, holonomic sequences, matrix semigroups, and algebraic geometry. Experience of actively developing research outputs such as publications is required.

Applicants will be required to upload a supporting statement, setting out how you meet the selection criteria.

The closing date for applications is 12 noon on 10 June 2024. Interviews are expected to be held in June.

We are a Stonewall Top 100 Employer, Living Wage and Mindful Employer, holding an Athena Swan Bronze Award, HR excellence in Research and Race Equality Charter Bronze Award.

Our staff and students come from all over the world and we proudly promote a friendly and inclusive culture. Diversity is positively encouraged, through diversity groups and champions, for example http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/aboutus/women-cs-oxford/index.html , as well as a number of family-friendly policies, such as the right to apply for flexible working and support for staff returning from periods of extended absence, for example shared parental leave.

Demonstrating a commitment to provide equality of opportunity. We would particularly welcome applications from women and black and minority ethnic applicants who are currently under-represented within the Computer Science Department. All applicants will be judged on merit, according to the selection criteria.

Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the role and responsibilities. Clinical Research The post holder will: Be responsible for assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patient care during participation in clinical research visits. Manage own clinical workload and co-ordinate allocated clinical trials and research studies. Practice in compliance with the code of professional conduct, being responsible and accountable for their decisions, actions, or omissions, taking responsibility for clinical decisions where competent to do so. Demonstrate expert knowledge and skills in the management of clinical research participants. Leadership and Management The senior research nurse post holder will: Initiate and develop effective relationships, fostering clarity of the research nurse role within teams, directorate and networks, to encourage productive and efficient working practices. Act as a role model for excellence in clinical research delivery & demonstrate the values of the OUHFT. Provide line management to research delivery team Education The senior research nurse post holder will: Critically assess and address own and teams CPD learning needs as research delivery nurse, and within clinical speciality working to a personal development plan that reflects the needs of the individual and clinical research delivery service. Critically reflects to maximise clinical & research delivery skills and knowledge development. Engage with performance reviews and appraisal processes, as required. Improving Quality and Developing Practice The Senior Research Nurse post holder will: Report all Adverse Events and Serious Adverse Events in line with ICH-GCP, ISO 14155 and OUH NHS Trust Adverse Events Reporting policy. Promote the value of clinical research to potential participants, the public and NHS colleagues. Participate in dissemination of research results locally and nationally, as appropriate. Represent participants and clinical research delivery staff in the development and review of research protocols, ensuring the protocols are deliverable, as appropriate.

The NDM Grant Management Team are an ambitious and supportive group, delivering high quality, professional project support across NDM. We have an exciting opportunity a Research Grants Manager to work alongside researchers at the leading edge of science in the largest medical department at Oxford, the Nuffield Department of Medicine, offering an excellent opportunity for career progression in Research Administration.

You will be responsible for the overall research grant management process of an NDM project portfolio including proactively meeting with any grant holders and their business manager within the allocated portfolio, actively managing the administration that underpins collaborations with other institution both in the UK and overseas, and providing additional support as required. You will be representing NDM at meetings to understand the broader research funding landscape and liaise with external funders, as required, and maintain an up-to date knowledge of major funding bodies terms and conditions.

This position also includes delivering training to relevant Professional Services staff as requested, and support with the ongoing training of Senior Grants Officer, Grants Officer and Apprentices within the team. You will implement processes and procedures within your portfolio to ensure compliance with University policies, and provide cover for other Research Grant Managers as required.

It is essential that you are educated to degree level or equivalent together with related experience ideally in the higher education sector or research environment. You will have a working knowledge of the major funding bodies, and of current issues affecting the research funding sector. You will have demonstrable skills in effective people management and the ability to support, develop and motivate staff. Additionally, you will have excellent numeracy skills, high level of accuracy and attention to detail. Prior experience of Oracle Financials software or other financial software is desirable.

Applications for this vacancy are to be made online and you will be required to upload a supporting statement and CV as part of your online application. Your supporting statement must explain how you meet each of the selection criteria for the post using examples of your skills and experience.
This position is offered full time on a permanent contract. Please note that the shortlisted candidates will be interviewed on Wednesday 15 May 2024.

Only applications received before 12 midday on Monday 6 May 2024 will be considered. Please quote 172314 on all correspondence.

NUFFIELD DEPARTMENT OF ORTHOPAEDICS, RHEUMATOLOGY AND MUSCULOSKELETAL SCIENCES (NDORMS)

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Bioinformatics (172445)
Grade 8: Salary in the range of £45,585 - £51,283 per annum

The Kennedy Institute at the University of Oxford has an exciting opening for an experienced bioinformatician to join the group of Associate Professor Stephen Sansom (https://sansomlab.org). In this core-funded role you will lead the development of pipelines and tools for the analysis of data from cutting-edge single cell and spatial genomics platforms such as the 10x Chromium and Nanostring CosMx. You will have the opportunity to work with students and postdocs from the Kennedy’s world-leading research groups both to provide bioinformatics training and to make contributions to publications in high impact journals. Researchers at the KIR are using cutting-edge approaches to investigate the immune system and the cellular causes of diseases such as atheroschlerosis, inflammatory bowel disease and arthritis (https://www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/research/research-groups).

You should have an established track record of code development and contributions to publications or submitted manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals that demonstrates your bioinformatics expertise. A PhD/DPhil (or near completion) in a discipline of direct relevant to bioinformatics and genomic research is essential. In this role, you will undertake code development, provide bioinformatics training and perform scientific research developing and acquiring relevant skills as necessary. You will share code with the bioinformatics community, publishing tools and results in peer-reviewed journals. A good understanding of single-cell/spatial genomics data analysis is essential. The successful applicant will be based at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology within the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences.

The closing date for this position is 12 noon on Friday 3 May 2024. Please read the accompanying job description carefully and ensure that you address each selection criteria in a supporting statement which must be uploaded together with your CV when applying online.

For further information please contact Associate Professor Stephen Sansom: stephen.sansom@kennedy.ox.ac.uk or Prof Irina Udalova: irina.udalova@kennedy.ox.ac.uk.

This core-funded post will be initially appointed as a fixed-term, full time position until 31/07/2026.

Location: We operate a flexible hybrid working model across the UK, with colleagues linked to one of our core locations in Newport, Titchfield (Fareham), London, Manchester, Edinburgh or Darlington, and working between office and remote throughout the week.
Salary: £55,803 - £67,270 plus up to £7,500 skills allowance
Working Patterns: Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time, Compressed hours
Closing Date: Apply before 11:55 pm on Thursday 4th April 2024

We’re looking for a forward-thinking individual with a passion for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery to join our Collection & Ingestion team, offering technical leadership and helping to support & develop new technology in Google Cloud Platform that integrates with our Blaise 5 software and enables ONS to collect our survey data. You will also get involved with modernising our survey software and migrating our surveys to the cloud.

As an experienced professional, you have the ability to design, develop and implement test scripts, providing automated testing frameworks to support functional & non-functional testing. In addition, you’re comfortable establishing design patterns, designing & reviewing complex systems, coordinating & testing integration across various systems and analysing & optimising processes.

Beyond this, you can demonstrate expertise in using a range of programming languages and frameworks, as well as building infrastructure-as-code.

Our tech stack includes:
-C# with .NET 4.8
-Python
-JavaScript/TypeScript
-Node
-React
-Golang
-Cypress
-Terraform for IaC
-Azure DevOps & Concourse for CI/CD

The more experience with our stack the better, but we will support you to learn any blind spots in the role.

For a full job description and details of the skills & experience we are looking for, please click the APPLY button to see our full advert on Civil Service Jobs.

In return we offer you:
✔Hybrid working in an organisation voted top in the UK for work-life balance
✔A market leading pension scheme - our employer contribution rate is around 27%
✔ A choice of working patterns *for every role* full-time, part-time, job-share.
✔Maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of 26 weeks full pay (subject to qualifying criteria)
✔Opportunities to learn new technology & skills on the job, utilising blocked out Protected Learning Time in your weekly schedule and taking advantage of the support of our Communities of Practice
✔Employee Assistance Programmes
✔Diversity Network Groups
✔Mental Health Allies
✔Civil Service Sports and Social club
✔Generous holiday allowance – 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days after 5 years service in addition to 9 public holidays

For more information about this role, a full application pack, and to apply, please hit APPLY to be taken to Civil Service Jobs.

The unit is committed to teaching/training and providing evidence-based care. Being involved in research for adolescent inpatient care will be a vital part of the role. The team offers a comprehensive induction package and training programme for all new staff including a bespoke week of adolescent mental health teaching, PBS training and a 3 day DBT skills based training. Please review the job description for further information about this role. If you'd like more information about the role, the team or the unit, please get in contact with Tom Lankester, Ward Manager on tom.lankester@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk or 01865 901400.

An opportunity for a full-time Finance Assistant has arisen in the Department, reporting to the Computer Science Senior Finance Officer - GL. This post is primarily financial administration, ensuring financial transactions are recorded and processed accurately in line with financial controls.

We are seeking applicants with experience of working in a financial environment who have a good level of numerical accuracy, who are committed to achieving both individual and team goals through excellent team working and communication skills. Applicants should have the ability to work methodically, generating high volumes of accurate work with meticulous attention to detail. You will be educated to GCSE standard or equivalent, and be a competent user of Microsoft Excel. Previous experience of working in an accounting environment, within a higher education or research establishment and experience of the University’s Oracle financial system is desirable.

Applications for this vacancy are to be made online. You will be required to upload a supporting statement as part of your online application. The supporting statement must explain how you meet each of the selection criteria for the post using examples of your skills and experience.

The post is a full time permanent contract.

The closing date for applications is 12 noon on 22nd April 2024. Interviews are expected to be held in late April or early May.

We are a Stonewall Top 100 Employer, Living Wage, holding an Athena Swan Bronze Award, HR excellence in Research and Race Equality Charter Bronze Award.

Our staff and students come from all over the world and we proudly promote a friendly and inclusive culture. Diversity is positively encouraged, through diversity groups and champions, for example http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/aboutus/women-cs-oxford/index.html , as well as a number of family-friendly policies, such as the right to apply for flexible working and support for staff returning from periods of extended absence, for example shared parental leave.

Demonstrating a commitment to provide equality of opportunity. We would particularly welcome applications from women and black and minority ethnic applicants who are currently under-represented within the Computer Science Department. All applicants will be judged on merit, according to the selection criteria.

Please refer to the detailed Job Description attached and advert details. We are also happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you

Are you interested in being part of a research delivery team, delivering novel therapies across neurological, neurodegenerative and ageing clinical research?
If you are, we have an exciting opportunity to join our research delivery team as a research nurse. We are a diverse team and welcome applicants from a wide range of clinical and health care backgrounds.
Our team supports a wide range of studies from observational studies through to clinical trials ranging from phase 1, first in human- later phase 4.
The role will suit somebody who has comprehensive nursing experience with our patient groups or prior clinical research experience.
On successful appointment, there is a tailored comprehensive induction and training programme.

The Role of the Clinical Research Nurse | NIHR

The main base is the John Radcliffe Hospital, the post-holder will lead in the provision of a clinical study service.
• Study Coordination of commercial trials and large cohort studies.
• Delivery of complex investigative medicines.
• Supporting invasive and complex outpatient procedures.
• Working closely with the team to deliver the wider portfolio of studies.
• You will be responsible for assessing and managing the care pathways for patients and carers participating in clinical studies focused mainly on neurodegenerative diseases, neurology and ageing.
• Recruitment, education and monitoring of research participants and the collection and documentation of accurate data including collection and management of tissue and/or samples.
• Supporting a wide range of research clinics.
• Processing lab samples.
• Conducting assessments as per the study protocol.
• Collecting physical assessments.
• Supervising and supporting junior staff.

Our team is part of Division 4 Neurology, Mental Health, Ageing and Neurodegenerative diseases with the Thames Valley and South Midlands area.

We are a diverse team of research nurses, practitioners and administrators. Working closely with clinicians to support and deliver research across our patient groups. The team comes from a variety of backgrounds such as Nursing, Mental Health, Psychology, Biochemistry and NHS to name a few.

The CRN: Thames Valley and South Midlands is one of 15 local Clinical Research Networks in the NIHR Clinical Research Network (NIHR CRN). The NIHR CRN is the clinical research delivery arm of the NHS in England, tasked with supporting the rapid set-up and effective conduct of studies, so that researchers can gather the robust evidence needed to improve treatments for NHS patients. These local Networks drive clinical research delivery performance across the locality, and champion the role of clinical research in the NHS at every level.

CRN Thames Valley and South Midlands (nihr.ac.uk)

Please refer to the detailed Job Description attached and advert details. We are also happy to answer any questions you may have.

Thank you


This advert closes on Wednesday 3 Apr 2024

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The main role of this post is to support radioisotope physics research (particularly PET) and to provide scientific and technical support for a wide range of radioisotope services.

If the appointee is a HCPC registered clinical psychologist, there will be additional responsibilities for Course Tutor and line management of Trainees.

Fixed-term until 30/04/2027, Full-time

The Cragg lab alongside other groups within Oxford (Wade-Martins and Magill), London (Kittler) and Germany (Liss) are conducting a collaborative Wellcome funded research project to explore the physiological roles of Ca2+ in dopamine transmission to gain insights into the potentially toxic roles of Ca2+ in Parkinson’s disease.

This project will exploit state-of-the-art tools to understand the roles of Ca2+ influx, storage and signalling within dopamine axons in wild-type animal models of Parkinson’s. This project will compare the Ca2+ biology across striatal territories to improve our understanding of the role of Ca2+ in health and disease. Our recently published data suggests that the roles of voltage-gated Ca2+ channels are dynamically regulated across striatal territories in a manner that correlates with risk factors of Parkinson’s [REF].

In this project we will develop a better understanding of the downstream coupling of Ca2+ to mitochondrial function to better understand the selective vulnerability of a subset of DA neurons in Parkinson’s, and potentially identify druggable targets that could neuroprotective potential in the treatment of Parkinson’s. We are now seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Scientist with a strong interest in Ca2+ biology to join us as part of this exciting collaboration.

Duties include contributing to overseeing the management and genotyping of animal model colonies and parkinsonian models; adapting existing and developing new scientific techniques and experimental protocols; testing hypotheses and analysing scientific data from a variety of sources, reviewing and refining working hypotheses as appropriate; contributing ideas for new research projects and developing ideas for generating research income.

You will have a strong background in electrophysiological and/or electrochemical and/or photometry techniques, to investigate neural circuits or synapses of the central nervous system. Applicants must hold, or be close to completion of, a PhD/DPhil in a relevant area of neurobiological research.

The fixed term post is available immediately. The post will be based in The Department of Physiology Anatomy & Genetics, Sherrington Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT

Informal enquiries may be directed to the DPAG HR Team – hr@dpag.ox.ac.uk / Professor Stephanie Cragg –stephanie.cragg@dpag.ox.ac.uk

Closing date for applications is midday on 12/04/2024.

Interviews are likely to be held on the week commencing 29/04/2024.

Applications are particularly welcome from women, black and minority ethnic candidates who are under-represented in academic posts in Oxford.

While this is a full-time role, we welcome applications from individuals who wish to be considered for part-time working or other flexible working arrangements.

We, as a Department and Community, will be considerate and welcoming of all people, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and socio-economic background. We acknowledge societal inequalities and how these impact us, and those around us, personally and professionally. – DPAG Statement of Inclusion

Please see job description and person specification as attached to this advert or contact Sarsha Wilson for more information.

A Vacancy at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.


These are exciting times for us.During the pandemic, our clinical research teams have been at the forefront of fighting Covid. Their work has contributed to finding world class successful treatments and roll out of the vaccination programme. The search for further solutions continues. Are you up for a challenge - read on!

The Thames Valley and South Midlands Clinical Research Network extends across the whole of Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Milton Keynes. We are expanding and we are looking for new members to join our team so that we can increase our ability to deliver research studies and to create more opportunities for people to participate in research wherever they are based in our region. We have an active portfolio of studies to deliver so there will be plenty to do and as study designs develop and make increasing use of technology, we will be able to reach populations more effectively. You will be based in our secondary care direct delivery team but flexibility is key and you may find yourself working on occasion in a variety of secondary care, primary care, social care or community settings, so frequent travel is required.



Please see job description and person specification for more details.

You will need to work across the Thames Valley region and occasional weekend/out of hours work may be required.



We are therefore keen to recruit additional research nurses or clinical research practitioners to our team who are excited at the idea of working flexibly across the region. If this sounds interesting then we’d love to hear from you. We’re recruiting to a number of positions based in Oxford.

We offer a large range of training opportunities to develop your career in research so previous research experience is not essential.

See job description and person specification as attached to this advert or contact Teresa Lockett or Penny Carter


This advert closes on Wednesday 10 Jan 2024

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See job description and person specification as attached to this advert or contact Teresa Lockett or Penny Carter