Researcher in Psychology and Behavioural Science (2 Posts)

Fixed-term (2 posts for 16.5 months each)

Full time – 37 hours per week

Closing date: 28/09/2025 at 23:30

The Role

These Researcher roles involve contributing to research projects in the field of applied psychology and/or behavioural science in a dedicated research team.

You will work with colleagues across multiple projects concurrently, contributing to writing research grant applications and tenders, and delivering projects, reports and papers in peer-reviewed journals.

This is an excellent opportunity for you to further develop your research skills and gain invaluable, practical, applied research experience working with staff in a varied and vibrant research environment.

We particularly invite researchers with one or some of the following skills/experience to apply:

• Collecting qualitative data from children and young people, possibly using creative methods
• Development of interventions using behavioural science
• Evaluation of therapies
• Randomised controlled trials
• Advanced statistical analyses and/or economic evaluation of interventions
• AI applied to research contexts

The Team/The department

Our Sheffield Institute of Social Sciences, the first Institute of its kind in the UK, addresses current social science issues across a range of areas.

Our employment-focused learning community covers many accredited courses, and our thriving teaching and research culture ensures that students have the opportunity to put theory into practice, develop ideas, test them and apply them.

Our outstanding support for student success and progression have been awarded the gold awarded University for Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). Over 70% of our talented, supportive and approachable colleagues have been recognised by REF2021 as ‘world-leading’ (4*) and ‘internationally excellent’ (3*) experts on issues that matter in a range of social science fields.