Research Fellow, Computer Science / HCI

European Commission; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading university in the UK seeks a Research Fellow for the WellthLab, focusing on interactive technologies aimed at enhancing health and well-being. The role involves engaging in innovative projects, collaborating across disciplines, and developing leadership skills in a supportive environment. Ideal candidates are nearing completion of their PhD and are driven to succeed at an international level.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Collaboration with leading researchers

Supportive research environment

Qualifications

• Candidates must have a relevant PhD or be nearing completion.
• Seeking a motivated researcher eager to develop leadership in the field.
• Experience in interdisciplinary projects is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Engage in projects exploring interactive technologies to support health.
• Work collaboratively with researchers from various disciplines.
• Contribute to innovative ideas in inbodied interaction.

Skills

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Inbodied interaction

Innovative thinking

Education

PhD in relevant field

Job description

Organisation/Company: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON

Research Field: Computer science

Researcher Profile: Recognised Researcher (R2), Leading Researcher (R4), First Stage Researcher (R1), Established Researcher (R3)

Country: United Kingdom

Application Deadline: 2 Jul 2025 - 00:00 (UTC)

Type of Contract: Other

Job Status: Full-time

Funding: Not funded by a EU programme

Research Infrastructure: No

Offer Description

WellthLab in the Agents, Interactions & Complexity Group

Interested in innovating interactive technologies to help #makeNormalBetter for all? Excellent and committed researcher? Come join the WellthLab. The WellthLab's mission is to explore how interactive technologies can support people to feel, how they feel, better. Our philosophy is to design for a minimal data dose, and our main methodology is inbodied interaction.

Some projects you’d be engaged in:

• XB – directed self-experimentation for tuning personal knowledge, skills, and practice. Experiment in a Box (XB) is a platform to facilitate guided self-experimentation in healthful practices with a Minimal Data Dose approach. We are exploring how to offer these experiments with minimal human support and how to understand and support social contextualisation for community-based design.
• Incidental Interaction (priority project). Investigating how everyday interactions (sitting, standing, getting out of bed, closing a door) can be instrumented to support healthful activities like building strength and improving balance.
• Synthesising co-presence. Exploring what makes in-person interactions more intimate and effective than online meetings, and how to synthesise biological signals to enhance remote interactions.
• Non-visual Augmented Reality for Learning in Context. Leveraging movement and environmental interaction to build skills such as language acquisition.
• Future of Healthful Work. An interdisciplinary program examining how technology can embody and normalise healthful work practices to enhance resilience and quality of life.

The WellthLab is interdisciplinary, mainly situated within the Electronics and Computer Science School at the University of Southampton, collaborating with Physiology, Psychology, Humanities, Arts, and Sociology. We seek motivated collaborators eager to develop research leadership, contribute innovative ideas, and become field leaders in inbodied interaction approaches to help #makeNormalBetter for all at scale.

If you are driven to succeed at an international level, you will find great opportunities here. Please review the person specification. You will work with leading researchers, PhD students, colleagues, and stakeholders, with significant career development opportunities. Members have advanced to careers in industry and academia. We are committed to supporting your career growth while aiming to #makeNormalBetter for all.

Applications are open for Research Fellow positions, with candidates working towards or nearing the completion of a relevant PhD. The title of Research Fellow will be awarded upon PhD completion; prior to that, the position will be Senior Research Assistant.