Marie Sklodowska-Curie Early Stage Researcher; ESR) in Network Ecology and Response Diversity

Organisation/Company Cardiff University Department Human Resources Division Research Field Biological sciences Researcher Profile First Stage Researcher (R1) Positions PhD Positions Final date to receive applications 10 Nov 2026 - 12:00 (Europe/London) Country United Kingdom Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Full-time Hours Per Week 35 Offer Starting Date 1 Apr 2027 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

Horizon 2020 Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Response diversity describes the variation in how individuals, species, or functional groups respond to environmental change and the concept is increasingly recognised as a key driver of ecosystem resilience. Understanding and promoting response diversity is therefore essential for conserving biodiversity and supporting resilient ecosystems in a changing world.

Cardiff University invites applications for a Doctoral Candidate position within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network ReDiLEEP. ReDiLEEP brings together leading universities, research institutes, and non-academic partners across Europe and beyond to advance response diversity research and translate new knowledge into ecosystem management, restoration, and biodiversity policy.

The Doctoral Candidate will contribute to this effort by investigating response diversity across ecosystems, focusing on the development of monitoring methods to investigate response diversity in the real-world.

Cardiff University is looking for an Early Stage Researcher within the Division of Organisms and Environment for the collaborative research projects ‘How can we measure response diversity at scale and across different taxa?’ of the EU Horizon
2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action: “ReDiLEEP” Using science-driven response diversity knowledge to leverage efficient ecosystem preservation and restoration. ReDiLEEP brings together leading universities, research institutes, and non-academic partners across Europe and beyond to advance response‑diversity research and translate new knowledge into ecosystem management, restoration, and biodiversity policy.

As part of the position, the successful candidate will be enrolled as a staff candidate for a PhD at Cardiff University.

ESR PhD students will benefit from a dedicated training program in the various fields of expertise of the consortium partners.

Conditions of international mobility of researchers:
Researchers will undertake trans-national secondments (i.e. move from one country to another). At the time of selection by the host organisation, researchers must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the UK for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to their recruitment. Short stays, such as holidays, are not taken into account.

The candidates must not yet have been awarded a doctorate degree and should have