THE OPPORTUNITY:

Chancellors Fellowships are 5-year fellowships, designed to support talented early career researchers to develop into a leading research-active academic at the University of Edinburgh.
We seek to appoint two Chancellor’s Fellows, who have a demonstrable track record of innovative research and/or translation, knowledge exchange and the potential to make an outstanding contribution to advancing the field of metabolic psychiatry (defined broadly to include areas such as molecular neuroscience, genomics, neuroimaging, circadian neuroscience, epidemiology, data science and clinical trials). Successful applicants will develop their own innovative and novel research programme.

Applications are welcome from researchers across the full range of disciplines in biomedicine. We particularly welcome researchers working across disciplines, and who have experience of/demonstrable potential to lead interdisciplinary initiatives. While we invite applications from any areas that are relevant to molecular pscyhiatry research and/or clinical practice, in order to help realise the University and College research priorities, we particularly welcome applicants who can make a key contribution to interdisciplinary research and innovation in one or more of the three University priority research themes (with potential for collaboration within the College and across the University’s three Colleges):

• Health and Well-Being
• Digital and Data
• Sustainability and Climate Change

CMVM has nine research themes that encompass our research activities: cancer; genetics; data sciences, medical informatics and population sciences; regeneration and repair; cardiometabolic; reproductive health, infection medicine; neuroscience; and animal health and agriculture. One Health Research activities cut across the nine research themes evidencing the potential for our research to make an impact globally.
Given the particular barriers facing female researchers and those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) groups, we particularly encourage applications from these groups. We also strongly welcome candidates from other under-represented groups and from those with non-traditional career paths, including those returning from a period of parental leave, or those who have moved to academia from a career in another sector. For this recruitment programme, the diversity data you provide may be shared with the panels for the purposes of taking lawful steps to meet our aims for diversity in appointments.
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