Assistant Professor

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About The Role

The Behavioural Science Group are recruiting for an Assistant Professor post for the current academic year (2025/26). Warwick Business School is a research‑led, triple accredited university‑based business school with a portfolio of world‑class programmes. We are continuing our search for outstanding academics to join our faculty. Applications are invited at the level of Assistant Professor in Behavioural Science.

We are looking for a scholar who is carrying out world‑class research that will have lasting international impact. The successful candidate will be an ambitious and collegial early‑career scholar who will contribute to research and teaching within the Behavioural Science Group, WBS, and Warwick more broadly. WBS is internationally renowned for interdisciplinary work on pure and applied behavioural science, and Behavioural Science is central to one of the University’s Interdisciplinary Research Spotlights.

We are open to applications from researchers with a strong background in the behavioural sciences. We are interested in researchers who specialise in:

• Behavioural or experimental economics;
• The psychology of judgement and decision‑making;
• Behavioural change;
• The data science of human behaviour.

About You

Assistant Professors will have completed their doctoral studies and may have some post‑doctoral research experience. They will have the capacity to publish at the top level, demonstrated by publications or strong working papers, and an ambitious future research agenda. A demonstrable ability to teach behavioural science would be an advantage.

For details on the experience and skills required, please refer to the job description attached as a PDF below.

About the Behavioural Science Group

The Behavioural Science Group is a highly multidisciplinary team, drawn from psychology, economics, data science, and beyond. We are bound together by a vision of understanding, predicting, and guiding human behaviour in the widest possible range of contexts.

Our interests, approaches and styles overlap with those of other members of the group in different ways. This allows us to be highly innovative. We routinely use laboratory, field and online experiments, mathematical and economic modelling, and large datasets to explore and to test and develop theory.

We have an active research environment with weekly lab meetings, the university‑wide DR@W behavioural science research seminars (which attract leading international scholars), informal brown‑bag lunchtime presentations and professional development seminars aimed at early‑career researchers, and strong links to behavioural sciences in the wider University, creating a critical mass in the research environment.

Successful candidates will join a growing group of scholars, who enjoy working together in a developmental environment. We are proud of a group culture based on an inclusive, supportive and positive approach, and one that values feedback, teamwork, transparency, and discussion. Our goal is to provide an excellent environment for talented and enthusiastic researchers to achieve career and personal goals.

About WBS

Please view our online brochure, specifically created for candidates, to gain further insight into working at Warwick Business School.

Warwick Business School is a place where big ideas meet real impact. We’re part of a world‑class university, but we’re more than just our reputation. For nearly 60 years, we’ve been helping people turn ambition into action, equipping them to make a real difference in the world.

We were the first UK business school to achieve triple accreditation (EQUIS, AMBA, AACSB), and our programmes consistently rank among the best – view all of our rankings here.

But what really sets us apart is how it feels to be here. We’re down to earth, collaborative, and proud to create a place where staff, students and alumni feel  want your time here to be as inspiring as it is rewarding, with the support, trust, and…