This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a large collaborative team. 

MyWorld is a five-year programme, the flagship for the UK’s creative technology sector. 

MyWorld will position the South West as an international trailblazer in screen-based media. 

This £46m programme brings together 30 partners from Bristol and Bath’s creative technologies sector and world-leading academic institutions, to create a unique cross-sector consortium. 

MyWorld will forge dynamic collaborations to progress technological innovation, deliver creative excellence, establish and operate state of the art facilities, offer skills training and drive inward investment, raising the region’s profile on the global stage. http://www.myworld-creates.com/ 

Within MyWorld our work package at Bath, in collaboration with the University of Bristol, is focused on the design and evaluation of audience experiences. 

There exists a range of methods available to measure these effects on audience: interviews, surveys, physiological monitoring, measuring behaviour. 

Our programme of research will map out these pre-existing methods, evaluate and validate them, and then add new cutting-edge methods to this battery. 

We will be working over a range of experiences (TV, VR, AR, Live Theatre, etc.) and with differing types of content (drama, documentary, news). 

The aim is to have real impact in providing the creative industries with an easy to access toolkit to support audience understanding. 

The Research Associate role at Bath linked to this work package is aimed at a researcher with a background in Psychology or Human Computer Interaction (HCI) with an interest in technology. 

We will work collaboratively with the Psychology team at Bristol and other partners on the project particularly BBC R&D and BT. 

The postholder will be able to: 

• Design, run, evaluate and write up studies working closely with the project team. 
• Develop and conduct research as part of the project’s multi-disciplinary team to achieve established objectives. 
• Support, engage and assist with the preparation and delivery of high quality research outputs 
• Contribute to the constant enrichment of a vital and sustainable research environment. Contribute 

Additional information

The end date for this project is 31 March 2027.

As a member of Research Staff at the University of Bath, you will be encouraged to take up a minimum of 10 days professional development pro rata per year.

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equity and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff. 

What we can offer you

We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

• Free counselling services through Health Assured
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
• Staff discount on language courses
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
• Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
• Local discounts and more
• A family-friendly workplace 
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses

Find out more about our benefits and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the University of Bath a great place to work as well as following us X and LinkedIn.

 

Closing Date: 28 May 2026

Department: Education & Research

Salary: £38,784 to £46,049

About the role

Join our highly supportive team in the Department of Psychology at the University of Bath, where you will be helping to teach aspirational undergraduate and postgraduate students in Psychology, particularly on the Applied Psychology (Conversion) Master’s.

This role will include developing the teaching material, delivery of lectures, seminars and tutorials, both online and in person. 

Alongside the supervision, assessment and marking of coursework and research dissertations, you will provide advice and support to students, as well as undertake teaching-related management and administration duties.   

Our ideal candidate

• be committed to and have experience of delivering high quality teaching
• show evidence of inclusive teaching practice and student engagement
• have experience supporting students as an Academic Advisor/Personal Tutor or similar

Additional information

This role is offered on a permanent basis.

The department are willing to consider applications for both full time and part-time (0.8 FTE) applicants. 

Informal enquiries can be made to the Director of Studies of the MSc in Applied Psychology, Dr Rhiannon Edwards (rte22@bath.ac.uk ) or the Deputy Head of Department (Education & Student Experience), Prof Richard Joiner (pssrj@bath.ac.uk).

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equity and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff. 

What we can offer you

We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

• Free counselling services through Health Assured
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
• Staff discount on language courses
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
• Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
• Local discounts and more
• A family-friendly workplace 
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses

Find out more about our benefits and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the University of Bath a great place to work as well as following us X and LinkedIn.

 

Closing Date: 07 Jun 2026

Department: Education & Research

Salary: £47,389 to £56,535

About the role

The project, co-led by Professor Ailsa Russell at University of Bath and Dr Emma Warnock-Parkes at University of Oxford, will co-produce and evaluate the effectiveness of an empirically informed cognitive behavioural intervention for social anxiety disorder with autistic people. 

There will be two main phases to the project: 

1) The adapted intervention and therapist training materials will be developed in Year 1 through co-production meetings, individual/small group consultations with varied engagement methods. This will be followed by refinement of the adapted intervention using a multiple baseline pilot case series.

2) The effectiveness of the intervention will be investigated via a cluster randomised controlled trial in NHS services commencing at the start of Year 2 of the project. 

The post holder will be actively involved in:

• co-ordination of co-production endeavours with the PIs and PPIE co-applicant leads, 
• design, preparation and piloting of research materials in collaboration with the clinical trials unit, 
• liaising with NHS sites,
• training and supporting research assistants to work to protocol,
• preparing manuscripts for publication as relevant to research stage e.g. protocols, qualitative and mixed methods findings from case series and co-production.  

The post holder will join the Centre for Applied Autism Research (CAAR) at the University of Bath. 

They will be encouraged and supported in pursuing career development opportunities. As a member of Research Staff at the University of Bath, you will be encouraged to take up a minimum of 10 days professional development pro rata per year.

Ideal candidate

We welcome applications from candidates who have:

•    A PhD or professional doctoral qualification in Psychology or related discipline 

•    Experience or interest in the field of autism and/or mental health

•    Experience of inclusive research practices

•    Experience of mixed methods data collection (interviews, surveys) and analysis techniques (e.g. reflexive thematic analysis, quantitative approaches)

•    Experience of conducting research with autistic people is desirable

•    Excellent team working, communication, and time management skills. 

Additional information

We have one position available offered on a part time (22.5 hours per week), fixed-term basis. 

The post is funded for 24 months. 

Due to the research involving clinical populations, an Enhanced DBS check will be required for this post. 

The post will require some travel to meetings and NHS sites.

Informal enquiries about this role should be directed to Professor Ailsa Russell (a.j.russell@bath.ac.uk). 

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff. 

What we can offer you

We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

• Free counselling services through Health Assured
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
• Staff discount on language courses
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
• Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
• Local discounts and more
• A family-friendly workplace 
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses

Find out more about our benefits and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the University of Bath a great place to work as well as following us X and LinkedIn.

 

Closing Date: 20 May 2026

Department: Education & Research

Salary: £38,784 to £46,049

The work-package aims to use iterative, multi-modal, theory-driven testing to identify the ‘best performing’ optimised labels and examine their influence on alcohol purchasing, visual attention and key mechanisms of impact (e.g., changing attitudes, knowledge etc).

About the role

The post holder will be actively involved in i) design, preparation and piloting of research materials, including online experiments, a longitudinal experiment and an eye-tracking study, ii) recruitment and data collection (in-person and online), iii) analysis of the data according to open science practices, and iv) preparing high quality manuscripts for publication.

The post holder is expected to work with the work package lead at the University of Bath (Dr Inge Kersbergen), the work package lead and Research Associate at the University of Bristol, and the wider project team who are largely based at the University of Stirling. 

This will involve regular online meetings and occasional (approximately twice yearly) in-person meetings at the University of Stirling. 

We expect that the results from this research would be written up by the post holder in an academic journal and the post holder will also be instrumental in developing reports which can be disseminated to policymakers and other key stakeholders.

The post holder will join Bath’s Addiction and Mental Health Research Group (BATH AIM) and they will be encouraged and supported in pursuing career development opportunities. 

We welcome applications from candidates who have:

• A PhD in Psychology or related discipline
• Experience or interest in the field of health and/or experimental psychology
• Experience designing, running and analysing data from eye-tracking studies and online experiments
• Excellent team working, communication, and time management skills. 

Additional information

As a member of Research Staff at the University of Bath, you will be encouraged to take up a minimum of 10 days professional development pro rata per year.

We have one position available offered on a full time (36.5 hours per week) fixed-term basis. The post is funded for 21 months. 

The post holder may be involved in testing off-site using the University of Bristol’s mobile research van. 

A driving licence and willingness to drive to drive the research van is desirable.

Informal enquiries about this role should be directed to Dr Inge Kersbergen (ik712@bath.ac.uk).

A lower grade offer may be made (Grade 6) with comparable reduction in responsibilities and amendment in job title to Research Assistant, if a suitable applicant cannot be found to fill the Grade 7 position. Applicants will need to be within six months of their course completion date and will be promoted to Research Associate once their PhD has been awarded. 

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equity and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff. 

What we can offer you

We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

• Free counselling services through Health Assured
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
• Staff discount on language courses
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
• Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
• Local discounts and more
• A family-friendly workplace 
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses

Find out more about our benefits and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the University of Bath a great place to work as well as following us X and LinkedIn.

 

Closing Date: 20 May 2026

Department: Education & Research

Salary: £38,784 to £46,049

The post is available as either a Grade 7 Research Associate or Grade 8 Research Fellow post, dependent on skills and experience. 

About the role

The project, led by Dr Esther Walton, aims to map how our epigenome and brain ages; and how this links to lifelong mental health. 

Whereas most studies to date have focused on the issue of ageing from the ages 40 or 50 onwards, this work will take a novel approach looking at the ageing process right across people’s life courses – from birth to death.

This project combines epi-/genetic and neuroimaging expertise and we welcome applications from applicants with expertise in either one field (or both).  

We expect that applicants for Research Fellow will have significant postdoctoral experience, with a demonstrable track record of leading and publishing epi-/genetic and/or neuroimaging research independently. 

Research Fellows will be capable of leading the development of research objectives, projects and analysis and training other members of the team in data analysis techniques.

About you

We welcome applications from candidates who have:

• A PhD in Psychology, Neuroscience or Genetics; or related discipline
• Extensive experience in epi-/genetic data analysis (polygenic risk scores, EWAS) and/or neuroimaging (Freesurfer, Matlab) 
• Experience and interest in conducting research in (epi-)genetic or neuroimaging psychology. 
• Experience with R, Python or Matlab programming, advanced statistical and epi-/genetic and/or neuroimaging skills 
• Excellent team working, communication, and time management skills are also essential. 

Additional information

As part of the University’s commitment to research staff development, the post holder will be supported to undertake professional development, including a minimum of 10 days per year pro rata.

We have one vacancy available offered on a full time (36.5 hours per week) fixed-term basis. The post is funded for 24 months.

Informal enquiries about this role should be directed to Dr Esther Walton (e.walton@bath.ac.uk). 

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equity and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff. 

What we can offer you

We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

• Free counselling services through Health Assured
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
• Staff discount on language courses
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
• Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
• Local discounts and more
• A family-friendly workplace 
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses

Find out more about our benefits and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the University of Bath a great place to work as well as following us X and LinkedIn.

 

Closing Date: 17 May 2026

Department: Education & Research

Salary: The salary range for Research Associate is £38,784 to £46,049 per annum. The salary range for Research Fellow is £47,389 to £56,535 per annum.