Elizabeth Gardner Fellowship

Grade UE08 - £49,250 - £60,321

School of Physics and Astronomy

Full- or part-time contract, full-time hours 35 per week

Fixed term contract for 48 month (or longer pro-rata to part-time FTE)

Elizabeth Gardner Fellowship 

We are looking for an early career postdoctoral researcher from a background currently under represented in the School, who is ready to develop their own, independent research in a supportive environment under the guidance of a mentor. 

The post is available either on a full-time or part-time basis and we are open to considering flexible working patterns. We are also open to considering requests for hybrid working (on a non-contractual basis) that combines a mix of remote and regular on-campus working.  

The Opportunity:

The School of Physics and Astronomy is pleased to invite applications for the 2024 Elizabeth Gardner Fellowship. This four-year Fellowship specifically supports early-career, postdoctoral researchers from backgrounds that are under-represented in the School’s academic community (e.g. gender, minority ethnicity, disability, disadvantaged circumstances, etc.).    

Elizabeth Gardner Fellowships honour the outstanding achievements of Dr Elizabeth Gardner (1957 - 1988). Dr Gardner studied Mathematical Physics at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with first class honours, and was awarded the Tait Medal, Robert Schlapp Prize, and the Class medal. After studying for a PhD at the University of Oxford, she later returned to the School of Physics and Astronomy in 1984 as a Research Fellow. Her works on the optimal storage of neural networks have been selected as two of the most influential papers in the 50th anniversary of Journal of Physics A. 

Your skills and attributes for success: 

• Educated to PhD level in an appropriate subject
• Experience within a research environment at a postdoctoral level
• A track record of publication in high quality journals
• Ability to lead and/or take responsibility for independent research; developing research objectives, projects and proposals for individual and collaborative research
• Interest in an area of research of strategic priority to the School

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