Research Fellow - Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy Grade 7

Position Details

Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy, School of Infection, Inflammation and Immunology, College of Medicine and Health

Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy, School of Infection, Inflammation and Immunology, College of Medicine and Health

University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

Full time starting salary is normally in the range £36,636 to £46,049 with potential progression once in post to £48,822

Grade: 7

Full Time, Fixed Term contract up to September 2029

Closing date: 30th September 2026

To create and contribute to the creation of knowledge by undertaking a specified range of activities within an established research programme and/or specific research project.

• Work within specified research grants and projects and contribute to writing bids
• Operate within area of specialism
• Analyse and interpret research findings and results
• Contribute to generating funding
• Contribute to licensing or spin out deals with demonstrated commercial success (such as revenues, asset or company sales, IP generated) and/or public understanding of the discipline or similar
• Establish and conduct high-throughput studies of lymphocyte receptor (TCR/BCR) antigen specificity
• Automate screening assays using state-of-the-art high-throughput enabling infrastructure
• Develop or co-develop new approaches to ultra-high-throughput screening techniques
• Work together with clinical collaborators to characterize functionally relevant lymphocyte clonotypes, phenotypes, and antigens
• Attend conferences and co-author manuscripts for peer review to disseminate novel findings

The responsibilities may include some but not all of the responsibilities outlined below.

• Develop research objectives and proposals for own or joint research, with assistance of a mentor if required
• Contribute to writing bids for research funding
• Analyse and interpret data
• Apply knowledge in a way which develops new intellectual understanding
• Disseminate research findings for publication, research seminars etc
• Supervise students on research related work and provide guidance to PhD students where appropriate to the discipline
• Contribute to developing new models, techniques and methods
• Undertake management/administration arising from research
• Contribute to Departmental/School research-related activities and research-related administration
• Contribute to enterprise, business development and/or public engagement activities of manifest benefit to the College and the University, often under supervision of a project leader
• Collect research data; this may be through a variety of research methods, such as scientific experimentation, literature reviews, and research interviews*
• Present research outputs, including drafting academic publications or parts thereof, for example at seminars and as posters*
• Provide guidance, as required, to support staff and any students who may be assisting with the research*
• Deal with problems that may affect the achievement of research objectives and deadlines*
• Fosters a fair and equitable workplace for all staff
• Identify and respond to equality and diversity issues in line with relevant university policies and procedures
• Other relevant criteria from our equality and diversity duties document
• Receive professional instrument-specific training, then train/manage users of Hamilton STAR liquid handling workstation
• These indicative responsibilities may also be included in a research role at grade 6.

• A PhD relevant to the research area (or near completion) of specialism and normally, a higher degree relevant to research area or equivalent qualifications
• High level analytical capability
• Ability to…