The University of Manchester, UK, invites applications for vacant Research and Faculty Positions.
The University of Manchester, UK, invites applications for vacant Research and Faculty Positions.
The University of Manchester in the United Kingdom invites applications for vacant Research and Faculty Positions, a public research university in Manchester, England.
The University is positive about flexible working and our staff undertake a wide range of flexible working arrangements, including job shares, part-time, part-time/ term-time, condensed hours, and flexi-time.
In the Professional Services teams, they are currently piloting hybrid working, where staff spend some of their time working on campus and some working time from home.
The University of Manchester also encourages job applicants to ask about flexible working opportunities during the recruitment and selection process.
Here are 14 Research and Faculty Positions at the University of Manchester.
Alliance Manchester Business School is interested in colleagues who have a strong desire to enhance teaching quality and the learning experience of students.
The role involves innovating to improve teaching quality and producing and publishing teaching-related materials.
You will have a proportionately larger teaching load than your research-focused colleagues, but you will be allowed time for scholarship activity and receive an annual budget for the same.
- Salary: £42,254 – £58,225 per annum, depending on experience
- Faculty/Organisational Unit: Humanities
- Location: Manchester
- Employment type: Fixed Term
- Division/Team: Accounting and Finance Division
- Hours Per Week: Full-time (1 FTE)
- Closing date (DD/MM/YYYY): 06/01/2026
- Contract Duration: Fixed term until 30th September 2028
- School/Directorate: Alliance Manchester Business School
The successful candidate is expected to make a significant contribution to AMBS’s reputation for world-class research, leading teaching, and scholarship.
They are expected to teach at the Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels in the area of Management and Organization Studies, including UG/MSc dissertation supervision, delivery of seminars, tutorial support, participation in the administrative activities of AMBS, and develop scholarship relevant to management and organization studies.
Over the academic year, 80% of the workload will focus on teaching, supervision, and administrative activities, and 20% on scholarship, research, and personal development.
- Salary: £37,694 – £58,225 per annum, depending on experience
- Faculty/Organisational Unit: Humanities
- Location: Oxford Road
- Employment type: Permanent
- Division/Team: People Management and Organisations
- Hours Per Week: Full Time (1 FTE)
- Closing date (DD/MM/YYYY): 06/01/2026
- Contract Duration: Permanent
- School/Directorate: Alliance Manchester Business School
To further strengthen our teaching and scholarship portfolio, we are currently looking for an academic member of staff to join our Accounting Group as a Lecturer on a Teaching and Scholarship (T&S) contract.
This fixed-term position is ideal for any individual with a passion for inspiring, inclusive teaching, and learning, wishing to gain further experience.
The post-holder will be involved in postgraduate and undergraduate teaching and scholarship in accounting.
Applicants must be able to contribute to teaching in this field, particularly in areas such as financial reporting, management accounting, taxation, and/or auditing.
- Salary: £42,254 – £58,225 per annum, depending on experience
- Faculty/Organisational Unit: Humanities
- Location: Manchester
- Employment type: Fixed Term
- Division/Team: Accounting and Finance Division
- Hours Per Week: Full-time (1 FTE)
- Closing date (DD/MM/YYYY): 06/01/2026
- Contract Duration: Fixed term until the end of September 2028
- School/Directorate: Alliance Manchester Business School.
The school wishes to appoint an exceptional Research Associate in Implementation Science to join the Implementation Science research theme of the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration for Greater Manchester (NIHR ARC-GM) based at the University of Manchester.
NIHR ARC-GM aims to undertake timely, needs-driven, transformative applied health and social care research to benefit communities locally and nationally.
Challenges in getting proven innovations, technologies, and ways of working rapidly adopted into policy and practice are a concern both nationally and internationally.
Implementation science and use of real-world evidence are designated as the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) areas of research interest.
- Salary: £37,694 to £46,049 per annum, depending on relevant experience
- Faculty/Organisational Unit: Biology, Medicine, Health
- Location: Manchester
- Employment type: Fixed Term
- Division/Team: Division of Nursing, Midwifery & Social Work
- Hours Per Week: Full Time
- Closing date (DD/MM/YYYY): 05/01/2026
- Contract Duration: Until 31 March 2029
- School/Directorate: School of Health Sciences
The postholder will have the skills to work as part of a research team to conduct research of local, regional, and national importance across health and care.
The successful candidate will work with partners to deliver a range of evaluations focused on implementation/de-implementation, large-scale health and care service change, and/or policy implementation.
Demonstration of a commitment to research co-production; working with health and care system partners and or industry will be essential for this role, as will experience of qualitative research methods.
The postholder will work with Professor Paul Wilson, Dr Laura Sheard, and other members of the NIHR ARC team and will be based in the Centre for Primary Care and Health Services Research in the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health.
Applications are invited for an enthusiastic and proactive Research Technician to join the Bertuzzi group at the Manchester Fungal Infection at the University of Manchester.
The post is available from the 1st of February 2026 on a full-time basis for 24 months, with the possibility to extend.
The candidate will be part of an interdisciplinary team of researchers, working on a Wellcome Trust-funded project investigating how Mucorales fungi adapt to natural and in-host environments and how stress adaptation drives infection, utilising our cutting-edge experimental workflows and unrivalled access to clinical and environmental isolates.
The candidate will provide technical and administrative support to the research activities within the Bertuzzi lab.
This will involve assisting with a range of project specific research activities (e.g. construction and validation of Mucorales mutants and reporters, testing the effect of stressors of Mucorales growth and in vitro host interactions), managing laboratory equipment and consumables stocks, ensuring health and safety and ethics compliance within the laboratory, maintaining laboratory inventories and audits and identifying ways to maximise sustainable lab practice.
The ideal candidate will have previous lab experience or lab management experience and support undergraduate and postgraduate projects.
- Salary: £28,031 – £31,236 per annum depending on experience
- Faculty/Organisational Unit: Biology, Medicine, Health
- Location: Oxford Road
- Employment type: Fixed Term
- Division/Team: FBMH Technical Services
- Hours Per Week: 35 hours per week
- Closing date (DD/MM/YYYY): 05/01/2026
- Contract Duration: 24 months
- School/Directorate: Faculty Office – Biology, Medicine and Health
Job reference: SAE-030341
Salary: £37,694 to £46,049 per annum, depending on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Science and Engineering
Location: Manchester Institute of Biotechnology
Employment type: Fixed Term
Division/Team: Department of Chemistry
Hours Per Week: Full Time
Closing date (DD/MM/YYYY): 22/12/2025
Contract Duration: From 1 March 2026 for 2 years (with the possibility of extension)
School/Directorate: School of Natural Sciences
Applications are invited for the role of Vice-Dean for Teaching, Learning and Students (TLS) within the Faculty of Humanities.
This senior academic leadership position is responsible for shaping, delivering, and enhancing the faculty’s priorities for teaching, learning, and the student experience, in alignment with the University’s Manchester 2035 strategy.
Applicants must be at a professorial level, with a distinguished academic record and significant experience in higher education teaching and learning.
They should demonstrate proven leadership in educational innovation and enhancement, a strong understanding of the UK higher education landscape, including quality assurance and regulatory frameworks, and a commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.
- Salary: TBC
- Faculty/Organisational Unit: Humanities
- Location: Oxford Road
- Employment type: Fixed Term and Permanent
- Division/Team: Humanities Dean’s Office
- Hours Per Week: 35
- Closing date (DD/MM/YYYY): 12/01/2026
- Contract Duration: 3 YEARS TBC
- School/Directorate: Faculty Office – Humanities
The Lectureship aims to advance research in medicinal chemistry (including closely related research areas such as chemical biology) or the development of AI approaches to enable medicinal chemistry.
The Division has a long-standing tradition of expert contribution to the development and use of therapeutic strategies, including the discovery of new drug molecules through fundamental understanding of the chemical, structural, and molecular biology of disease, and the expertise in medicinal chemistry is now required to develop suitable targeting approaches and candidate entities.
The successful applicant is expected to carry out internationally competitive research and contribute to raising the profile of the Division and the School through peer-reviewed internationally leading research publications.
- Salary: £47,398 – £58,225 per annum, dependent on relevant experience
- Faculty/Organisational Unit: Biology, Medicine, Health
- Location: Oxford Road
- Employment type: Permanent
- Division/Team: Division of Pharmacy and Optometry
- Hours Per Week: Full-time
- Closing date (DD/MM/YYYY): 26/01/2026
- Contract Duration: Permanent
- School/Directorate: School of Health Sciences
Salary: £47,389 – £58,225 per annum, depending on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Professional Services
Location: Hybrid Working on Campus/Remote
Employment type: Fixed Term
Division/Team: Development and Alumni
Hours Per Week: 35 hours per week
Closing date (DD/MM/YYYY): 04/01/2026
Contract Duration: available until July 2029
School/Directorate: Division of Development and Alumni Relations
Salary: Professorial scale, per annum, depending on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Science and Engineering
Location: Manchester Institute of Biotechnology
Employment type: Permanent
Division/Team: Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB)
Hours Per Week: 35
Closing date (DD/MM/YYYY): 12/01/2026
Contract Duration: permanent
School/Directorate: FSE Research Institutes.
Salary: £37,694 – £46,049 per annum, depending on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Biology, Medicine, Health
Location: Oxford Road
Employment type: Fixed Term
Division/Team: Division of Informatics, Imaging & Data Science
Hours Per Week: 1 FTE
Closing date (DD/MM/YYYY): 09/01/2026
Contract Duration: available from 1 February 2026 to 31 January 2029
School/Directorate: School of Health Sciences.
Salary: £37,694 – £46,049 per annum according to relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Science and Engineering
Location: Oxford Road
Employment type: Fixed Term
Division/Team: Department of Mathematics
Hours Per Week: Full-time
Closing date (DD/MM/YYYY): 12/01/2026
Contract Duration: Fixed term up to 36 Months
School/Directorate: School of Natural Sciences.
Salary: £37,694 to £46,049 per annum, depending on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Professional Services
Location: Oxford Road
Employment type: Permanent
Division/Team: Campus Technology Services
Hours Per Week: Full Time
Closing date (DD/MM/YYYY): 18/12/2025
Contract Duration: Permanent
School/Directorate: Directorate of IT Services.
Salary: £47,389 – £58,225 per annum, depending on experience
Faculty/Organisational Unit: Humanities
Location: Oxford Road
Employment type: Fixed Term
Division/Team: SEED Administration
Hours Per Week: Full-time (1 FTE)
Closing date (DD/MM/YYYY): 04/01/2026
Contract Duration: Fixed term for 24 months
School/Directorate: School of Environment, Education & Development
