Prize Fellow

Bath; Bath; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 58,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave

Employer contributory pension

Cycle to work scheme

EV salary sacrifice

Staff discounts

Development opportunities

Museum entry benefits

Employee assistance services

Job summary

The University of Bath is inviting applications for a Prize Fellow to conduct high quality research as an independent investigator within the CWBE umbrella, and to build a research group aligned with the Centre and discipline.

You will contribute to advanced teaching and supervision, training graduate students, and promoting research in the discipline through public engagement.

Job description

Salary Starting from £48,337, rising to £57,666

We are working to transform public and environmental health management, establishing the first Urban Living Lab facility; a state-of-the-art digital water sensing platform, training base and ideas hub. Our ambition is to provide a practical roadmap for a UK early-warning system, co-produced with regional and national stakeholders to serve as a sentinel and multigenerational testing site for research and innovation. This platform will enable testing of public health and environmental interventions focused on increasing community resilience to disease, pollution and climate change impacts.

We are looking to recruit a Prize Fellow:

• to conduct high quality research as an independent researcher within the umbrella of the Centre, including securing funding via research grants and/or fellowship applications and building a research group appropriate to the Centre and discipline
• to contribute to advanced teaching and supervision, training and research of graduate students
• to promote research in the discipline, including public engagement.

About you

We particularly welcome applications from researchers whose interests align with CWBE's research strengths in antimicrobial resistance, pathogen surveillance, wastewater-based epidemiology, and the environmental and public health impacts of pharmaceuticals and other bioactive compounds.

The successful candidate will establish an independent research programme within CWBE's interdisciplinary environment.

Further information

For an informal discussion regarding the role please contact Edward Feil at [e-mail] . This role is a full-time fixed term position (36.5 hours per week for 24 months). Subject to satisfactory progress at the end of the fixed term, the position will transfer to a Lectureship.

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 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:

• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff benefits include discounted postgraduate tuition and language courses, alongside a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities such as apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning, and more
• Local discounts, including free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Employee assistance services through Health Assured, including access to the Wisdom app

We’re committed to creating a health-supporting working environment where everyone can thrive and be at their best. We offer a range of resources to enable you to do that from your first day here, including:

• Staff support groups and networks
• A network of Staff Wellbeing Champions
• A suite of tools, resources and frameworks that enable you to be at your best and thrive

Right to Work in the UK:We do not assess immigration or right to work status until offer stage. Being invited to interview does not guarantee you are eligible for visa sponsorship and all offers are conditional on meeting right to work requirements. Further information is available on our application support webpage.

Anonymous shortlisting:We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details such as your name, may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.