Research Associate: EICDT Legacy Project

**Salary**

The starting salary will be from £34,610 on Grade E, depending on qualifications and experience.

**Contractual hours**

36.5

**Package**

Generous holiday allowances, flexible working, pension scheme and relocation package (if applicable).

**Job category/type**

Academic

**Date posted**

02/03/2026

**Job reference**

Q13276

**Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy – Business School**

This new full-time post is available from immediately on a fixed term basis until August 2026.

**About the role**

The University of Exeter runs the College for Doctoral Training in Environmental Intelligence: Data Science & Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Sustainable Futures, funded by UKRI EPSRC. Environmental Intelligence represents the use of Data Science & AI to create transformational science and tools to enable informed decision making across a range of sectors related to the environment and society, including climate, water, energy, social justice, communications, ecology, finance and insurance, infrastructure and health. The rapidly growing availability of data from multiple, inter-related sources, provides the opportunity for a step-change in our ability to find solutions to important challenges related to our interaction with the natural environment.

The CDT provides an inter-disciplinary training environment for over 50 PhD students, across 6 cohorts. Students are equipped with the skills to become leaders in Environmental Intelligence, and with career prospects across academia and the public and private sectors. It is a critical and exciting time in the life-cycle of the CDT and assessing the progress and outputs of our students’ research is critical to the continued development of this emerging research agenda.

We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to support the CDT through conducting analysis and writing up of the EICDT Legacy research project - a piece of work undertaken in partnership with and investigating CDT students’ approaches to working in an interdisciplinary environment, as well as the methodologies and ethical considerations across all PhD projects. The PDRA will work closely with the Centre Directors, Centre Management team, and CDT students.

**Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role.**

**The University of Exeter**

We are a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities and in the top 200 universities in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 and QS World University Ranking 2024). We combine world-class teaching with world-class research, achieving a Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework Award 2023, underpinned by Gold ratings for Student Experience and Student Outcomes.

Our world-leading research impact has grown more than any other Russell Group university in recent years, and we are home to some of the world’s most influential researchers, seeking to answer some of the most fundamental issues facing humankind today. More than 99 percent of our research is of international quality and 47 percent is world-leading (2021 Research Excellence Framework).

We encourage proactive engagement with industry, business and community partners to enhance the impact of research and education and improve the employability of our students. Read about our world leading research – Green Futures and how we are transforming education for a changing world. We are located in a beautiful part of the country and Exeter (a fast growing tech hub) is one of only a few UK cities to have been designated as a UNESCO Creative City

**Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commitment**

We are committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments are available for interviews and workplaces.

Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our working community.

With over 30,000 students and 7,000 staff from 150 different countries we offer a diverse and engaging environment where our diversity is celebrated and valued as a major strength. We are committed to creating an inclusive culture where all members of our community are supported to thrive; where diverse voices are heard through our engagement with evidence-based charter frameworks for gender (Athena SWAN and Project Juno for Physics), race equality (Race Equality Charter Mark), LGBTQ+ inclusion (Stonewall Diversity Champion) and as a Disability Confident employer.

We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and welcome applications from service people.

**Benefits**

We offer some fantastic benefits including

• 41 days leave per year
• options for flexible working
• numerous discounts at leading retailers
• onsite gyms on all of our campus’ and a cycle to work scheme
• sector leading policies around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (up to 26 weeks full pay), paternity leave (up to 6 weeks full pay) and a Fertility Treatment Policy
• stunning campus environments in Exeter and Cornwall, in the beautiful South West of England

**Further information**

Please contact Calum MacLeod, Centre Manager (c.macleod@exeter.ac.uk)