Top Research Jobs in Edinburgh

Manages investigator sites for clinical trials from activation through closeout. Conducts onsite and remote monitoring, ensures patient safety and GCP/regulatory compliance, resolves protocol and data issues, oversees investigational product handling, supports recruitment and database release, and coordinates with investigators, vendors, study teams, drug safety, and regulatory stakeholders. The role also supports audits, CAPA remediation, protocol training, and may mentor clinical research associates.

Manages and monitors investigator sites throughout clinical trials, ensuring patient safety, GCP and regulatory compliance, enrollment progress, data quality, investigational product oversight, issue resolution, documentation, and timely site close-out. Collaborates with investigators, study teams, vendors, drug safety units, and site personnel while supporting audits, CAPA activities, database release, and protocol training.

Manages investigator sites for clinical trials from activation through closeout, ensuring patient safety, protocol compliance, quality, regulatory adherence, recruitment progress, data resolution, investigational product oversight, and timely study documentation. Partners with study teams, site personnel, vendors, and safety groups to resolve issues, support audits and inspections, implement corrective actions, and deliver successful global trial execution.

Manage quantitative and qualitative market research projects from inception through delivery. Responsibilities include defining research objectives, developing briefs, commissioning and overseeing research suppliers, analyzing datasets and findings, identifying trends, producing charts and reports, and presenting evidence-based insights to support regulatory policy. The role also requires maintaining cross-functional relationships, monitoring research best practices, and exploring innovative methodologies including AI applications.

Conduct research into volcanic debris avalanches and granular heating. Analyze geological samples and field datasets, perform grain-size and mechanical characterization, interpret photogrammetric and geological data, run high-pressure shear-cell experiments, develop discrete-element simulations, and contribute to depth-averaged debris-avalanche models. The role includes publishing research, presenting at conferences, co-supervising students, and collaborating internationally.

Conduct postdoctoral research on avian influenza modeling in cattle using multi-scale simulation models, machine learning, and demographic, environmental, and phylogenetic datasets. Collaborate with UK and US universities, coordinate research activities, contribute to disease-control strategies, disseminate findings, and participate in international visits and project meetings focused on infectious disease research.

Manage and deliver mixed-methods social research and evaluation projects across Scotland’s public policy landscape. Responsibilities include designing methodologies, conducting qualitative and quantitative research, analysing data, translating findings into actionable insights, writing reports, presenting results, managing clients and stakeholders, contributing to proposals and business development, and supporting team planning and researcher development. The role also involves using AI-enabled tools and digital technologies to improve research quality and efficiency.

Conduct research on trustworthy agentic AI security, privacy-enhancing technologies, cryptography, formal verification, and agentic systems. Build and implement security stacks that translate user requirements into formal specifications, select or generate cryptographic protocols, and verify their properties using tools such as Lean and ProVerif. Contribute to project deliverables, research publications, datasets, presentations, and dissemination activities while collaborating with investigators and senior researchers.

Conduct research for the Beyond Line-of-Sight Diffuse Optical Wireless Communication project at the University of Edinburgh. Responsibilities include designing and modelling experimental optical wireless communication systems, developing electronic systems with PCB layout and prototyping, designing digital communication physical layers, and conducting optical communications experiments. The role is a six-month full-time postdoctoral research position within the Institute for Imaging, Data and Communications.

Conduct interdisciplinary neuroscience research using iPSC-derived microglia, neurons, and 3D organoids to investigate sex differences in brain development and early-life infection. The role involves applying stem cell culture, molecular biology, and microscopy techniques, organizing research activities, communicating findings, critically evaluating results, and working independently and collaboratively within the Sullivan/Chandran labs.

Conducts applied research on the fairness, privacy, and adversarial robustness of AI and machine learning tools used in recruitment. Responsibilities include implementing and documenting experiments, developing reproducible research software and evaluation pipelines, managing sensitive and synthetic datasets, and contributing to analyses and publications in security, privacy, and machine learning.

Conduct mixed-methods research on embedding net-zero skills in higher education. Responsibilities include reviewing literature, interviewing SMEs, surveying university staff, facilitating focus groups, analyzing qualitative and quantitative data, and producing recommendations, case studies, learning resources, and a net-zero skills framework. The role supports interdisciplinary collaboration across universities, industry, sustainability teams, and climate-change researchers.

Conduct experimental research in ultrafast molecular photochemistry by designing and constructing a time-resolved Coulomb explosion imaging apparatus. The role involves imaging ultrafast molecular motion in isolated gas-phase molecules, performing practical laboratory work, and advancing understanding of fundamental photochemical reactivity. The researcher will work within the University of Edinburgh’s School of Chemistry and collaborate with Dr Alice Green’s research team.

Research Fellows will validate AI-generated paper reproductions, simulations, and results; map research taxonomies; define standards for high-quality AI-assisted science; and create benchmark tasks and evaluations for frontier AI models. Fellows will contribute to a publicly released benchmark paper and open evaluation set as lead or first authors. The contract offers flexible, remote global work for current STEM PhD students or postdocs with published research and hands-on AI agent experience.

Conduct research on language evolution and sociolinguistic variation in British Sign Language. Recruit participants across the UK, liaise with deaf community organisations, collect and manage video-based linguistic data, and code recordings according to research protocols. Maintain participant and project records, follow ethical and data protection requirements, contribute to literature reviews, publications, presentations, meetings, and administrative tasks, and work independently and collaboratively to meet project objectives.

Manage the Financial Lives survey and bespoke market research projects, overseeing timelines, budgets, suppliers, resources, governance, stakeholder engagement, and reporting. Support survey analysis queries, procurement framework renewal, communications planning, team administration, recruitment coordination, risk tracking, and process improvement. The role requires quantitative and qualitative research knowledge, survey design and analysis experience, strong Excel skills, budget management, and excellent organizational and communication abilities.

Manage bespoke quantitative and qualitative market research projects for a financial regulator, including research design, statements of requirements, supplier evaluation, sampling, screening, weighting, analysis, and publication-quality reporting. Deliver assigned sections of the Financial Lives survey, ensuring robust data collection, timely delivery, budget control, and alignment with internal client needs. Collaborate with research agencies, internal stakeholders, and team leads to support regulatory decisions and consumer insights.

Conducts site qualification, initiation, monitoring, management, and close-out visits for clinical studies. Ensures ICH-GCP, regulatory, protocol, informed consent, data integrity, investigational product, and site documentation compliance. Performs source document review, query resolution, and audit readiness activities; supports recruitment, retention, and investigator relationships. Manages site-level timelines and communications, may mentor junior CRAs, and supports real-world late-phase activities including chart abstraction, data collection, and country-level informed consent development.

Assistant Professor at Birmingham Law School responsible for teaching, assessment, curriculum development, student supervision, research publication, grant development, PhD mentoring, knowledge transfer, and School administration. The role also involves academic citizenship, leadership, equality and diversity initiatives, public engagement, and supporting an inclusive learning environment. New appointees participate in a five-year academic development programme with expected progression to Associate Professor.

Curate and interpret drug discovery data from scientific papers, patents, and other disclosures. Responsibilities include interpreting chemical structures and biological data, building and maintaining databases, researching biopharmaceutical R&D, and surfacing accurate insights for scientific and industry audiences. The role requires strong data curation, patent literature, chemoinformatics, scientific communication, and attention to detail skills.

Conduct independent AI research focused on evaluation methodologies, alignment techniques, and synthetic data generation. Design rigorous experiments and scalable frameworks for evaluating LLMs and agent systems using human data. Build research infrastructure and practical tools, applying fine-tuning, optimization, quantization, adapters, and distillation. Publish research, contribute to open source, collaborate with engineering and product teams, mentor colleagues, and communicate complex AI concepts clearly.

Reviews manuscripts for research integrity and publishing ethics concerns, investigates potential issues, distinguishes valid concerns from false positives, and recommends appropriate actions. Manages ethics cases, communicates findings to editors and authors, mentors colleagues, identifies emerging risks, and leads process improvements that strengthen research integrity screening and publishing operations.

Reviews manuscripts for research integrity and publishing ethics concerns, investigates potential issues, distinguishes valid concerns from false positives, and manages ethics cases. Communicates findings to editorial stakeholders, mentors colleagues, identifies emerging risks, and leads process, workflow, policy, and detection improvements across scholarly publishing operations.

Test an international payment service by receiving a small transfer into a local Faroe Islands bank account, verifying the amount, date, and reference, and submitting screenshots or video evidence. The task takes about one hour, with the transfer potentially taking two business days. Applicants must be based in the Faroe Islands, have a local-currency bank account, provide banking details, sign a consent form, and create a Testlio account.

Conducts research on AI-enabled turbulence computation by designing, training, and releasing large neural network models for embedding and predicting high-Reynolds-number turbulent flows. The role applies graph neural networks, transformers, and dynamical systems theory, collaborating with academic researchers, industrial partners, and a major technology company. The position is full-time, fixed-term for 36 months, and includes opportunities for industrial collaboration and career development.