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Titlesort descending Department/location Salary Category Posted Closes Reference
Research Associate (Honorary Resident Doctor) (Fixed Term) Department of Oncology £38,831-£73,992 Research 1 May 2026 17 May 2026 RD49603
Assistant Research Professor in Physics-based Bayesian Inference for Flow-MRI (Fixed Term) Department of Engineering £47,389-£59,966 Research 27 April 2026 11 May 2026 NM49542
Field Archaeologist x 8 (Fixed Term) Department of Archaeology - CAU £27,205.00 [from May 2026] Research 1 April 2026 30 June 2026 JD49262
Post-Doctoral Research Associate (Alchemy) (Fixed Term) Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy £34,610 - £35,608 £37,694 - £46,049 Research 22 April 2026 24 May 2026 LJ49481
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Microbiome Privacy and Modelling (Fixed Term) Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics £37,694-£46,049 Research 8 May 2026 22 May 2026 LE49636
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (Fixed Term) Faculty of Divinity £37,694-£46,049 Research 21 April 2026 7 June 2026 GF49476
Research Assistant (Fixed Term) Department of Medicine £33,002-£35,608 Research 17 April 2026 17 May 2026 RC49456
Research Assistant (Fixed Term) MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit £33,002-£35,608 Research 8 May 2026 28 May 2026 SU49652
Research Assistant (Fixed Term) Faculty of Education £33,002-£35,608 Research 1 May 2026 17 May 2026 JR49601
Research Assistant (Fixed Term) Department of Clinical Neurosciences £33,002-£35,608 Research 27 April 2026 19 May 2026 RR49527
Research Assistant - Widening Participation Programme (Fixed Term) Department of Clinical Biochemistry £33,002-£35,608 Research 23 April 2026 24 May 2026 RG49492
Research Assistant / Associate (Fixed Term) Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience £34,610 - £35,608 £37,694 - £46,049 Research 6 May 2026 31 May 2026 PM49614
Research Assistant / PhD Studentship (Fixed Term) Department of Zoology £33,002-£35,608 Research 30 April 2026 15 May 2026 PF49560
Research Assistant /Associate in Planetary Geochemistry (Fixed Term) Department of Earth Sciences £34,610 - £35,608 £37,694 - £46,049  Research 30 April 2026 14 May 2026 LB49569
Research Assistant in Ann Dowling Net Zero Impact for AIA (Fixed Term) Department of Engineering £33,002-£35,608 Research 13 April 2026 11 May 2026 NM49387
Research Assistant in Gravitational Physics Research Assistant in Gravitational Physics (with possibility of PhD study) (Fixed Term) Institute of Astronomy £33,002-£35,608 Research 6 May 2026 20 May 2026 LG49618
Research Assistant in Mixed-Methods Primary Care Research (Fixed Term) Department of Public Health and Primary Care, The Primary Care Unit £33,002-£35,608 Research 15 April 2026 14 May 2026 SN49424
Research Assistant/ Associate (Fixed Term) Department of Computer Science and Technology £34,610 - £35,608 £37,694 - £46,049 Research 6 May 2026 4 June 2026 NR49592
Research Assistant/ Associate (Fixed Term) Department of Computer Science and Technology £34,610 - £35,608 £37,694 - £46,049 Research 8 May 2026 18 May 2026 NR49646
Research Assistant/ Associate in Communication Networks (Fixed Term) Department of Engineering £34,610 - £35,608 £37,694 - £46,049      Research 30 April 2026 15 May 2026 NM49593
Research Assistant/Associate in EvEx (Fixed Term) Cambridge Institute for Technology and Humanity £33,002-£35,608 £37,694-£46,049 Research 14 April 2026 24 May 2026 GO49394
Research Assistant/Associate in Exascale Computing for Advanced Engineering (Fixed Term) Department of Engineering £33,002-£35,608 £37,694-£46,049 Research 10 April 2026 22 May 2026 NM49379
Research Assistant/Associate in Interactive Proof Assistants (Fixed Term) Department of Computer Science and Technology £34,610 - £35,608 £37,694 - £46,049    Research 30 April 2026 14 May 2026 NR49581
Research Assistant/Associate in Machine Learning (Fixed Term) Department of Engineering £34,610 - £35,608 £37,694 - £46,049 Research 17 April 2026 15 May 2026 NM49458
Research Assistant/Research Associate (Fixed Term) Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology £34,610 - £35,608 £37,694 - £46,049 Research 27 April 2026 17 May 2026 NQ49536
Research Assistant/Research Associate in Gas-Solid Absorption (Fixed Term) Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology £34,610 - £35,608 £37,694 - £46,049  Research 29 April 2026 19 May 2026 NQ49576
Research Assistant/Research Associate in Green Ammonia Synthesis (Fixed Term) Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology £34,610 - £35,608 £37,694 - £46,049  Research 29 April 2026 19 May 2026 NQ49577
Research Assistant/Research Associate in Vapour Deposition of Multijunction Perovskite Solar Cells Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology £33,002-£35,608 £37,694-£46,049 Research 19 March 2026 18 May 2026 NQ49154
Research Assistant: Supramolecular Chemistry (Fixed Term) Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry £33,002-£35,608 Research 30 April 2026 14 May 2026 MA49591
Research Associate (Carroll Group) (Fixed Term) Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute £33,002-£35,608 £37,694-£46,049 Research 15 April 2026 13 May 2026 SW49430
Research Associate (Fixed Term) Cambridge Stem Cell Institute (SBS) £37,694-£46,049 Research 6 May 2026 31 May 2026 PS49626
Research Associate (Fixed Term) Department of Pathology £37,694-£46,049 Research 11 May 2026 25 May 2026 PK49589
Research Associate (Fixed Term) Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics £37,694-£46,049 Research 23 April 2026 14 May 2026 LE49495
Research Associate (Fixed Term) Department of Zoology £37,694-£46,049 Research 6 May 2026 7 June 2026 PF49578
Research Associate (Fixed Term) Department of Medicine £37,694-£46,049 Research 9 April 2026 21 May 2026 RC49365
Research Associate - Biosensor Engineering (Fixed Term) Sainsbury Laboratory £34,610-£35,608 £37,694-£46,049 Research 8 May 2026 22 May 2026 PT49655
Research Associate - Bornelöv Group (Fixed Term) Department of Biochemistry £37,694-£46,049 Research 20 April 2026 18 May 2026 PH49454
Research Associate - Chemical Biologist (Fixed Term) Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry £34,610 - £35,608 £37,694 - £46,049 Research 1 May 2026 4 June 2026 MA49598
Research Associate - Chemical Biologist (Fixed Term) Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry £34,610 - £35,608 £37,694 - £46,049 Research 1 May 2026 4 June 2026 MA49597
Research Associate in Epithelial Morphogenesis (Fixed Term) Gurdon Institute £37,694-£46,049 Research 7 May 2026 21 May 2026 PR49637
Research Associate in Molecular Mechanisms of Obesity (Fixed Term) Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience £33,002-£46,049 Research 6 May 2026 29 May 2026 PM49600
Research Associate in Statistical Genetics of Obesity (Fixed Term) Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience £34,610 - £35,608 £37,694 - £46,049    Research 30 April 2026 25 May 2026 PM49583
Research Associate/Senior Research Associate Medical Statistics - Grade 7/8 (Fixed Term) MRC Biostatistics Unit £37,694-£46,049 Research 7 May 2026 1 June 2026 SL49645
Research Fellowship for post-holders of Black Identity or Heritage (Research Associate, Fixed Term) McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research £37,694-£46,049 Research 24 April 2026 25 May 2026 JC49506
Trinity-Pemberton Postdoctoral Research Associate in Bacteriology-AMR Department of Pathology £37,694-£46,049 Research 17 April 2026 15 May 2026 PK49457