Fellowship and Research position

Manchester 

As we celebrate our 200th year of Manchester Met, we are delighted to be launching our ‘Third Century Fellowship Scheme’. 

The Fellowship Scheme is aimed at exceptional researchers, in the early stages of their post-doctoral career, who aim to make their mark in the field of independent research. You will have extensive experience and a notable track record of research outputs in your area of research.  

What are we offering as part of the Third Century Fellowship Scheme? 

By joining our Fellowship Scheme, you’ll play a leading part in our global research offering and join our community, working collaboratively across multidisciplinary and diverse teams with state-of-the-art facilities and work environment.  

You will benefit from: 

• An exceptional research environment and facilities to support YOUR ambitions and research interest 

• A competitive salary, excellent pension and holiday entitlement, enhanced family leave and more 

• A three-year development programme, underpinned by the Leadership Lens on the Vitae Researcher Development Framework, a well-established sector-wide tool for the career and professional development of research leaders.  

• Mentorship throughout the programme and access to coaching sessions 

• Diverse teams, colleagues and staff networks  

During the term of the fellowship, you will be publishing internationally excellent and world-leading outputs and will be pursuing external funding opportunities to realise your future research ambitions. You will also have the opportunity, when relevant, to prepare and deliver short courses. 

The Scheme begins with an initial appointment to a fixed-term post with the expectation to transition to a permanent Senior Lecturer or as a Reader, after three years, dependant on your performance and potential as assessed through the scheme. 

We will be making up to 15 appointments onto the cohort, based on application and assessment performance, and best fit to our preferred areas of research, across our four faculties.  

You can explore our research areas here: 

Science and Engineering  

We are particularly keen to hear from you if your areas of research are: 

• Musculoskeletal Health 

• Neurodegeneration  

• Surface Engineering 

• Advanced Material (including additive manufacturing) 

• Cyber-physical Systems  

• Nature Based Solutions 

Arts and Humanities  

We are particularly keen to hear from you if your areas of research are: 

• Design for Heritage and Community  

• Writing and Place 

• Materiality, Antiquity and Archaeology 

• Linguistics – Language and Social Justice 

• Fashion Technologies 

• Children’s Wellbeing 

Business and Law   

We are particularly keen to hear from you if your areas of research are: 

• Social Impact of Sport 

• Place-based Partnerships 

• Sustainable Consumption and Production 

• Decent Work and Productivity  

Health and Education 

We are particularly keen to hear from you if your areas of research are: 

• Relational Processes - Relationality 

• Gender and Social Justice 

• Learning disability or Autism 

• Mental Health  

• Physical Movement 

• Psychological Stress 

We look forward to hearing from you.