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College of Medicine and Health
Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK
Full time starting salary is normally in the range £36,130 to £45,413 with potential progression once in post to £48,149
Grade: 7
Full Time, Fixed Term contract up to February 2028
Closing date: 3rd September 2025
Provisional interview date: 2nd October 2025
Please note that we will only be accepting one resubmission to the Springboard scheme from now on.
Background
The College of Medicine and Health (CMH) University of Birmingham offers pump-priming postdoctoral fellowship awards to early career researchers to support development of their independent research programme. This new competitive fellowship scheme aims to support high-calibre post-doctoral researchers to develop proposals for submission to prestigious fellowships schemes such as ERC starter grants, Future Leaders Fellowship, Wellcome / MRC Career Development Awards etc. The fellowship aims to boost the competitiveness of the post holder for these externally funded, independent fellowship applications by offering the opportunity to complete key research outputs in progress, develop new skills and/or generation of preliminary data. The post holder will work in a high-quality research environment and will be sponsored by a senior mentor for development of their independent research within the strategic areas of research in the MDS. The awards are open to both internal and external candidates and will provide salary of the fellow for up to 2 years and research costs. The post holder is expected to submit their independent fellowship application within the first 12 months of appointment and if/as successful, move into the fellowship role on a new contract within the 2 years
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Informal enquiries to Tim Giles, email: t.giles@bham.ac.uk
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Job Info
- Job Identification 6831
- Job Category Academic Non-clinical
- Posting Date 04/23/2025, 11:01 PM
- Apply Before 09/03/2025, 10:59 PM
- Job Schedule Full time
- Locations Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands, B15 2TT, GB
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