Total 70 Science / R&D / Research job vacancies in Andover, Hampshire, SP10 2PS

The Retinal Cell Biology Lab at the University of Southampton seeks to recruit a capable and highly motivated postdoctoral researcher for a 3 year project at the intersection of basic and translational research. The successful candidate will join the multidisciplinary Faculty of Medicine’s Vision Group, composed of both basic scientists and clinicians, providing a rich environment for exciting professional and personal development.

Taking advantage of human ESC derived retinal organoid cultures the post holder will work on a collaborative project seeking to understand photoreceptor physiology.

Candidates should have a PhD (or about to be awarded) in a relevant life sciences area and a BSc/MSc in a related subject (e.g. developmental cell biology/genetics). Knowledge of mammalian cellular and developmental biology is essential. The candidate will have robust skills in molecular biology techniques as well as robust experience in pluripotent stem cell culture, organoid differentiation, histology, flow cytometry and confocal microscopy. Experience with using the programming language R is desirable. The candidate must have excellent organisational, communication and problem solving skills.

A successful track-record in research, as evidenced by having published at least one primary research article in the past five years in a peer-reviewed journal, is required.

Applications for Research Fellow positions will be considered from candidates who are working towards or nearing completion of a relevant PhD qualification if the above requirements are met. The title of Research Fellow will be applied upon successful completion of the PhD. Prior to the qualification being awarded the title Senior Research Assistant will be given.

Previously unsuccessful applicants need not apply.

For further information please contact: Dr Jörn Lakowski (j.lakowski@soton.ac.uk)

Application Procedure

The application deadline is midnight on the closing date stated above. If you need assistance, call Recruitment on +44 (0) 23 8059 2750, or email recruitment@soton.ac.uk. Quote the advert reference 2606624FC-R on all correspondence.

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Introduction

The University of Southampton’s Advanced Project Management Research Centre (APROM) in collaboration with Greyfly.ai is seeking a Generative AI Research Associate for a 4-month Accelerated Knowledge Transfer project, administered and part funded by Innovate UK KTN. The role is focused on the development and enhancement of an innovative Generative AI (GenAI) chatbot to advance the capabilities of the Greyfly Intelligent Project Prediction (Greyfly-IPP) platform, with an emphasis on improving functionality, trust, and user adoption.

About the Role

As the ideal candidate for this position, you are forward-thinking with a deep passion for understanding the nuances of AI, especially within the evolving landscape of project management. You will play a crucial role in contributing directly to the development of AI-driven project management solutions and fostering the integration of academic research.

The position encompasses a range of responsibilities including comprehensive research into generative AI models, natural language processing techniques, and conversational AI technologies to identify and implement methods that improve the chatbot's functionality. The role also involves the creation of a high-quality training dataset for the chatbot, ensuring data quality, uniformity, and adherence to privacy standards. Further responsibilities include the design and implementation of advanced machine learning algorithms and neural network architectures, optimising the chatbot for fluency, coherence, and engagement, and conducting thorough testing and validation to evaluate the chatbot's performance, employing feedback to optimise the model across various scenarios.

Collaboration with the Data Science team at Greyfly.ai and business stakeholders is essential, requiring effective communication of technical findings to non-technical audiences. The role demands leadership in project management from inception to completion, ensuring effective management of timelines, resources, and stakeholder expectations, along with maintaining clear and concise documentation of the design, implementation, and evaluation processes, and preparing progress reports and presentations for stakeholders.

At APROM, we value diversity, innovation, and the pursuit of excellence. If you resonate with these values and are eager to contribute to a ground-breaking study that bridges the gap between academic theory and real-world application, we look forward to welcoming you to our community.

What we can offer you

As a university we aim to create an environment where everyone can thrive and are proactive in fostering a culture of inclusion, respect and equality of opportunity. We believe that we can only truly meet our objectives if we are reflective of society, so we are passionate about creating a working environment in which you are free to bring your whole self to work.

With a generous holiday allowance as well as additional university closure days we are committed to supporting our staff and students and open to a flexible working approach.

For an informal discussion about the post, please email Dr Nicholas Dacre, Director of the Advanced Project Management Research Centre
(APROM) aprom@soton.ac.uk

Applications for Research Fellow positions will be considered from candidates who are working towards or nearing completion of a relevant PhD qualification. The title of Research Fellow will be applied upon successful completion of the PhD. Prior to the qualification being awarded the title of Senior Research Assistant will be given.

We believe equality, diversity and inclusion are fundamental to making the University of Southampton a welcoming, vibrant and successful organisation. Having a diverse workforce, inclusive of people of all ages and beliefs, from different racial backgrounds, educational and social backgrounds opens up a wealth of possibilities, makes us more creative and accelerates our impact on society. We welcome applicants that value diversity of our community and are willing to play their part in supporting the mission of inclusivity.

Please note that applications from agencies will not be accepted unless indicated on the job.

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Manpower has a unique opportunity for a Research and Development Technician to join our Client based in Portsmouth on an initial 9 month fixed-term contract.

Working as part of an established team you will participate in research and development activities while being involved in test set up and testing in the lab. You will utilise established mathematical and scientific techniques to compile and analyse data, writing technical reports detailing procedures, outcomes and observation.

All applicants must have a bachelor's degree and related experience and be able to show proven capabilities in the field. You will be familiar with standard concepts, practices and procedures to plan and accomplish goals.

Moderate exposure to chemical, biological and physical risks is anticipated.

Applications are invited for an enthusiastic Research Fellow to join the Molecular Biophotonics and Imaging group within the School of Chemistry and Institute for Life Sciences at the University of Southampton.

OrganVision is funded by European Union’s FET Open Horizon-2020 grant in a consortium of researchers and companies from four different European countries. It aims to develop a technological platform for real-time visualizing and modelling of fundamental process in living organoids towards new insights into organ-specific health, disease, and recovery.

The research team at the University of Southampton is responsible for developing ‘OrganLab’ for the OrganVision project and quantitative analysis to understand the mechanical property of the EHT tissue using different multimodal imaging techniques.

The post holder will be responsible for developing/imaging and image analysis on homebuilt ‘OrganVision microscope ’and implementing computational imaging techniques to generate useful data at the University of Southampton. The successful candidate will have a PhD* or equivalent professional qualifications in Physics, Bio-photonics (spectroscopy, optics, imaging) or optical engineering related fields.

The main qualification and technical requirements that fellow should have are:

• Prior experience in machine learning, computer vision, and/or big data.

• Prior experience in generating, curating, or handling microscopy data.

• Publication record illustrating first author high impact research publications in experimental research in top tier journals/conferences in the field of microscopy, pattern recognition, machine learning, computer vision, distributed computing, or big data.

In additional the following skills and experience are desirable :

• Prior experience in bioimaging, live cell imaging.

• Prior experience with medical images, microscopy images, or fluorescence images

• Track record of developing microscopy image analysis pipelines using existing python codes for image analysis and/or deep learning

• Track record of packaging, releasing, and supporting software packages/ source codes for research communities

• Established track record of collaboration between two or more teams

• High motivation, enthusiasm, and independence

• Good written and verbal communication skills in English

• Excellent work ethic and commitment to work

• Creativity, ability to think outside the box, problem solving orientation are extremely desirable

• Experience in mentorship, leadership, multi-disciplinary research, and international collaborations are desirable,

This post is funded by FET-Open grant under European Union’s Horizon-2020, for the OrganVision project in a consortium of research labs from four different European countries (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/964800). The candidate should work in an open collaborating environment of The Molecular Bio-Photonics & Imaging Research Group, at the University of Southampton in collaboration with the research teams of Prof. Sumeet Mahajan and Dr. Dipanjan Bhattacharya. In addition, he should have a good collaborative mindset to collaborate with the other research groups of OrganVision Consortium (https://www.organvision.eu/consortium/).

It is a full-time fixed term for 18 months initially and potentially extendable. The work pattern for this position is flexible. It is based in the Institute for Life Sciences on the Highfield campus at the University of Southampton. Informal enquiries are welcome and should be made to Dr. Dipanjan Bhattacharya (dipanjan.bhattacharya@soton.ac.uk). This appointment will be made subject to the usual terms and conditions of employment of the University.

As a university we aim to create an environment where everyone can thrive and are proactive in fostering a culture of inclusion, respect and equality of opportunity. We believe that we can only truly meet our objectives if we are reflective of society, so we are passionate about creating a working environment in which you are free to bring your whole self to work. With a generous holiday allowance as well as additional university closure days we are committed to supporting our staff and students and open to a flexible working approach.

Apply by midnight on the closing date. For assistance contact Recruitment on +44(0)2380 592750 or recruitment@soton.ac.uk quoting the job number.

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An opportunity has arisen for a research fellow specialized in quantitative data analysis to work with young advisors exploring barriers to mental health services. You will become part of an ESRC funded research team passionate to improve mental health care service provision for young people in UK. To realize this research aim you will be accessing secure health care and cohort data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) and the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (NEXT STEPS) and apply innovative missing-not-at-random approaches to analyse the data. Upon completion of the quantitative analysis, you will be presenting the findings regarding characteristics and life-experiences of young people with emotional mental health problems not using formal mental health services at stakeholder conferences and meetings, and contribute to writing papers. In addition, you will be working together with YoungMind and ARC Wessex to disseminate the findings to the public, young people, parents, community organizations, policy makers, and mental health care providers.

This is an exciting opportunity for you to join the University of Southampton (UoS), a leading university for Health Sciences research, ranked in the top 3 UK universities in the overall quality of our research, with our research environment scoring top marks (REF 2021). This position will extend your experience in missing data analysis methods, mental health research, and allow you to collaborate with experts with lived experiences. The project is part of the vibrant and multidisciplinary portfolio of ARC Wessex, allowing you to network with local and national ARC colleagues, including medical statisticians. In addition, you will be able to attend local and national workshops, meetings, and conferences.

UoS offers some fantastic benefits including generous annual leave, company pension scheme, discounted private healthcare and dental, company sick pay, options for flexible working, excellent family leave arrangements, a wide variety of on and off-campus arts and culture facilities, subsidised health and fitness facilities. Some flexibility will be required from you as secure data analysis can only be done on a secure computer terminal at the UoS.

To be successful in this RF position you will have, or will be close to completing, a PhD with strong statistical component in a relevant discipline (e.g., statistics, epidemiology, social sciences). Essential attributes for the role are: being skilled in the use of R and/or STATA, experience in cleaning, formatting and analysing prospective cohort data, ability to write research presentations and papers. Additionally, knowledge and experience with missing data methodologies, especially missing-data-not-at-random approaches, ability to explain complex statistical methods and statistics to lay audience, and experience in the analysis of ALSPAC and/or NEXT STEPS and/or HES/primary care data is highly desirable. It is a requirement that the RF is accredited to work with secure data and therefore desirable that they have completed some form of ‘safe researcher’ training, although this could be obtained upon appointment.

For an informal discussion please contact Corine Driessens, c.m.driessens@soton.ac.uk

Please be advised that the advert may close early.

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and welcome applicants who supports our mission of inclusivity.

Apply by midnight on the closing date. For assistance contact Recruitment on +44(0)2380 592750 or recruitment@soton.ac.uk quoting the job number.

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Faculty of Medicine

School of Human Development and Health

An opportunity has arisen for a Research Fellow to join the Faculty of Medicine, School of Human Development and Health, based at Southampton General Hospital site. The successful candidate will join a research team involved in a collaborative project working with the University of Oxford and the Biomedical Research Institute of Girona.
The aim of this project is to investigate if cognitive decline is associated with changes in the amount of circulating and excreted metabolites related to gut microbial metabolism. A second aim is to explore how these changes are influenced by obesity.

To investigate this, an initial discovery phase will leverage banked plasma and faecal samples from a large cross-sectional human study where cognition has been found to be inversely correlated with age and BMI. A combination of high-resolution untargeted (NMR spectroscopy-based) and targeted (mass spectrometry-based) metabolomic approaches will be used to measure a broad range of metabolic features associated with gut microbial metabolism. Integrative multivariate data analysis techniques will be used to combine this metabolic data with existing shotgun metagenomic, brain structure and function data to identify microorganism-function-metabolite relationships related to cognitive decline. Candidate microbial metabolites will then be validated using samples from an independent longitudinal study with accompanying metagenome, brain structure and function data. Finally, rodent models at the University of Oxford will be used to demonstrate causality and understand the biomolecular mechanisms contributing to cognitive decline.

The post holder will be required to process, house, and analyse multi-platform data generated by the project team to identify relevant spectral features and metabolic pathways associated with cognitive decline, obesity, gut microbial status and information on brain structure and function.

The role requires expertise in MS-based metabolomics, MS method development, classical statistics, microbiomics, nutrition, and human biochemistry. This role will be involved in database management with respect to curation, storage, and distribution of the data. Data will be mapped to biological pathways and interpretation will be achieved together with input from other team members.

The successful candidate should have experience in metabolic profiling and an understanding of how to fuse complex multi-omic datasets. A PhD in analytical chemistry, bioinformatics, and/or metabolomics is essential.

This full-time position is offered for a fixed-term for 18 months in the first instance. The post will be aligned to the Faculty of Medicine, School of Human Development and Health, University of Southampton, based at Southampton General Hospital site and Highfield campus.

For further information please contact Prof Jonathan Swann (j.swann@soton.ac.uk).

Applications for Research Fellow positions will be considered from candidates who are working towards or nearing completion of a relevant PhD qualification. The title of Research Fellow will be applied upon successful completion of the PhD. Prior to the qualification being awarded the title of Senior Research Assistant will be given.

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and welcome applicants who supports our mission of inclusivity.

Apply by midnight on the closing date. For assistance contact Recruitment on +44(0)2380 592750 or recruitment@soton.ac.uk quoting the job number.

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Location: Titchfield, Fareham, Hampshire, PO15 5RR
Salary: £39,394 - £44,432
Working Patterns: Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time, Compressed Hours
Closing date: Apply before 11:55 pm on Thursday 4th January 2024

We're looking for experienced leaders with strong communication, leadership, organisational and analytical skills to join our busy Digital Services & Technology (DST) directorate to deliver high profile services across our organisation.

You'll be leading a multi-skilled team working across multiple projects simultaneously, being involved in operation, support, performance monitoring, continuous improvement and decommissioning of a range of IT services crucial to the everyday running of the ONS.

As an experienced leader, you've previously led a continuous planning process to deliver business-as-usual and project related activities, and you can identify challenging organisational processes and query them when necessary with the aim of improving process. You can take ownership of issues, communicate effectively with varied stakeholders at various levels of seniority and can analyse data to identify trends, problems and opportunities. You've also got experience coaching & leading teams effectively.

Want to find out more? For full details, benefits pack and to apply, click APPLY to go to the Civil Service Jobs website.

In return we offer you:
✔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, compressed hours.
✔Maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of 26 weeks full pay (subject to qualifying criteria)
✔Upskilling Opportunities - Staff development is taken seriously with your right to learn protected and invested in through courses, certifications and e-learning provided or paid for by ONS!
✔Employee Assistance Programmes
✔Diversity Network Groups
✔Mental Health Allies
✔Civil Service Sports and Social club
✔25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days after 5 years service in addition to 9 public holidays

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You will be responsible for delivering scheduled, reactive and remedial maintenance services, ensuring that operational standards are always maintained. This can include, but is not limited to, basic/routine maintenance activities as instructed, building fabric, general monthly PPM tasks, plumbing, drainage, joinery, and general decoration repairs.
What you\'ll need to succeed

• A driving licence
• A trade qualification or apprenticeship
• Proven experience in a building trade or building maintenance
• Comfortable using technological devices to log jobs
• Ability to work alone and/or as part of a wider team

What you\'ll get in return

• Salary of £25,000 - £30,000 (plus on-call allowance)
• A company van and tools
• 35 days holiday with bank holidays
• Access to group personal pension plan
• Training and development opportunities

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The Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR) at the University of Southampton is seeking to appoint a postdoctoral research associate for a duration of 3-years who will work on the generation of virtual sound images for multiple listeners. This will involve the further development of systems for delivering binaural sound via loudspeakers for a limited number of listeners (e.g., 2-5) and on the optimisation of multiple loudspeaker outputs for large audiences (e.g., 50-200). We are seeking candidates with a Ph.D. (or equivalent professional qualification and experience) in acoustical engineering and/or audio signal processing. The successful candidate will have demonstratable experience in undertaking both experiments and computer simulations in acoustics and/or signal processing as evidenced by publications in top-tier conferences and journals. The work will contribute to a larger EPSRC funded project entitled “Challenges in Immersive Audio Technology” (CIAT) that is being conducted in a collaboration between King’s College London and the Universities of Southampton and Surrey.

This post is offered on a full time, fixed term basis due to funding restrictions.

The proposed start date for the post is the 1st March 2024, but it can be deferred, if required.

Please click on 'Apply Now' to enter your details in order to progress with this application.

Informal enquiries can be made to Prof Philip Nelson: p.a.nelson@soton.ac.uk

Details of the CIAT project can be found at: https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/X032981/1

The ISVR has been at the forefront of sound and vibration research and education since its inception nearly 60 years ago. The Institute has built an international reputation through pioneering academic research and strong and enduring collaborations with industry. The ISVR has excellent experimental facilities including anechoic and reverberation chambers and multiple audio laboratories.

The ISVR is part of the School of Engineering at the University of Southampton, which is one of the UK’s most dynamic centres for engineering research. The School has an excellent record of collaborative research with industry and academic institutions in the UK and abroad.

Applications for this position will be considered from candidates who are working towards or nearing completion of a relevant PhD qualification. The title of Research Fellow will be applied upon completion of PhD. Prior to the qualification being awarded the title of Senior Research Assistant will be given.

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As a university we aim to create an environment where everyone can thrive and are proactive in fostering a culture of inclusion, respect and equality of opportunity. We believe that we can only truly meet our objectives if we are reflective of society, so we are passionate about creating a working environment in which you are free to bring your whole self to work. With a generous holiday allowance as well as additional university closure days we are committed to supporting our staff and students and open to a flexible working approach.

Apply by midnight on the closing date. For assistance contact Recruitment on +44(0)2380 592750 or recruitment@soton.ac.uk quoting the job number.

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Manpower has a unique opportunity for a Research and Development Technician to join our Client based in Portsmouth on an initial 9 month fixed-term contract.

Working as part of an established team you will participate in research and development activities while being involved in test set up and testing in the lab. You will utilise established mathematical and scientific techniques to compile and analyse data, writing technical reports detailing procedures, outcomes and observation.

All applicants must have a bachelor's degree and related experience and be able to show proven capabilities in the field. You will be familiar with standard concepts, practices and procedures to plan and accomplish goals.

Moderate exposure to chemical, biological and physical risks is anticipated.