Fellowships and research jobs at MSSM

There are two main ways for new or experienced postdoctoral researchers to join us:

• successfully apply for a fellowship
• be offered a job at the University

Fellowships

Fellowships are fixed term positions that provide funding for researchers to continue their academic training or complete a significant piece of research at a host university. 

If you are thinking about applying for postdoctoral fellowship funding, get in touch - we’re happy to support your application.

In our field, fellowships you way wish to consider include:

• National Institute for Health Research fellowship programmes - four fellowships to help develop research leaders of tomorrow
• Sir Henry Wellcome postdoctoral fellowships - open to recently qualified postdoctoral researchers looking to start independent research careers
• Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Discovery Fellowship -  aimed at researchers who have completed their PhD to support their first steps into independent research and gain leadership skills
• Medical Research Council Fellowships - a range of funding opportunities targeted at talented researchers making the next step in their career
• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships - available to experienced researchers looking to boost their career by working abroad

Job opportunities

You’ll find postdoctoral and faculty research vacancies advertised regularly on Manchester Met jobs. 

Opportunities can include:

• research assistants
• research associates
• lecturers
• readers
• professors
• leadership roles

Manchester Met has a specialist career pathway for researchers, to help make the most of your potential.

If you join us, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to genuinely world-class research, studying human movement in its widest sense - from movement impairment induced by chronic disease, through healthy ageing, to elite sport.

We use state-of-the-art techniques to study the structure and function of cells, molecules and genetics, through musculoskeletal physiology to whole-body human biomechanics.

This unique approach makes the Musculoskeletal Science and Sports Medicine research centre a great place to advance your career.