"Postdoctoral Research Assistant"

Postdoctoral Research Assistant

University of Gloucestershire - Department of Zoology

Placed On: 16th March 2026

Closes: 30th March 2026

Job Ref: 00054033

6 month fixed term contract

1.0FTE, 37 hours per week

The post holder may be based at any premises the University occupies and may be required to work at any University site or any other reasonable location where the University is undertaking its business. The university does have an agile working policy, and this requires the postholder to be based in the UK

Special Conditions: Hybrid/remote working can be considered for this role

Seabird monitoring datasets are often underutilized due to the complex and evolving analytical approaches needed for robust estimation of demographic rates and the analysis of population dynamics. By focussing on refinements of two key demographic rates in seabird ecology – breeding adult survival and juvenile survival, the latter being especially poorly understood – this project will yield important improvements to Population Viability Analyses of seabirds in the context of Offshore Wind Development.

For this post, we are looking for a postdoctoral research assistant who will focus on analyses of existing datasets on Manx Shearwaters and European Storm Petrels to obtain improved estimates of demographic parameters across these species’ north-east Atlantic breeding range.

This project is supervised by Dr Matt Wood (University of Gloucestershire) and Dr Cat Horswill (Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge), part of the wider Procellariform Behaviour and Demography (ProcBe) project with The University of Oxford, the RSPB, and JNCC, funded by The Offshore Wind Evidence and Change programme (OWEC).

How to apply

You will be asked to submit a CV along with a Supporting Statement that addresses how you meet the essential criteria or complete the attached application form. CVs alone will not be considered.

Key Dates:

Closing Date: 30th March

Interview Date: 10th April or week commencing 13th April

To avoid disappointment please apply early, should we find a suitable candidate we will close the advert.

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