About us

CAST is a global hub for understanding the crucial role that people play in fighting climate change. 

We are a cross-institutional research centre with world-leading expertise in environmental psychology, behaviour change, public engagement, policy, governance, education, and more. Our Centre is a vibrant community, committed to doing impactful research and to promoting an inclusive and positive working environment (see our EDI plan).

About the role

We are seeking a Research Associate to contribute to a major new research programme funded by a philanthropic organisation, on People-Centred Climate Resilience (PCR). 

The four-year programme aims to accelerate transformative, equitable, climate-resilient, low-carbon behaviour change by integrating individual and systemic approaches, developing and testing innovative composite interventions, and empowering diverse communities and stakeholders to drive sustained societal transformation across scales and sectors.

Your role will principally involve conducting a longitudinal cross-national survey on life choices, including survey design, data collection and analysis, and disseminating findings to create impact. 

This project will explore the little-examined area of how climate change influences individuals’ life choices, such as where to live, what career to follow, and whether and when to have children. 

You will undertake a large cross-national longitudinal survey of 15+ countries to explore the relative salience of climate change versus other factors in these major life choices.  

About you

You will have a PhD or equivalent in a relevant subject (e.g. psychology) with strong quantitative research skills, including survey design and statistical analysis. 

You will also have detailed specialist knowledge in climate-relevant attitudes and behaviours.

You will have published in high-quality journals, have excellent communication and organisation skills, and be able to meet required deadlines.

Additional information

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Lorraine Whitmarsh (lw2253@bath.ac.uk), or Sam Hampton (sah53@bath.ac.uk).

This part-time (0.6 FTE) post is available for a fixed-term period of 42 months, planned to start from 1^st October 2026.

As a member of Research Staff at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, you will be encouraged to take up a minimum of 10 days professional development pro rata per year.

A lower grade offer may be made (Grade 6) with comparable reduction in responsibilities and amendment in job title to Research Assistant, if a suitable applicant cannot be found to fill the Grade 7 position. Applicants will need to be within six months of their course completion date and will be promoted to Research Associate once their PhD has been awarded. 

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equity and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff. 

What we can offer you 

We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø gym
• Staff benefits include discounted postgraduate tuition and language courses, alongside a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities such as apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning, and more
• Local discounts, including free entry to the Holburne Museum in ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø
• A family-friendly workplace 
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses
• Employee assistance services through Health Assured, including access to the Wisdom app

Find out more about our benefits and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø a great place to work as well as following us and .

Be Well at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø

We’re committed to creating a health-supporting working environment where everyone can thrive and be at their best. We offer a range of resources to enable you to do that from your first day here, including:

• Staff support groups and networks
• A network of Staff Wellbeing Champions
• A suite of tools, resources and frameworks that enable you to be at your best and thrive

Find out more about being at your best at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø.

 

Closing Date: 16 Jun 2026

Department: Education & Research

Salary: £38,784 to £46,049

About the role

This role is part of the . 

The Hub’s ambition is to pursue cutting edge research at the intersection between the fields of applied AI and Collective Intelligence across five application domains (Pandemic Resilience, Smart cities, Financial Stability, Health Ecosystems and Environmental Intelligence) and two cross-cutting themes (Human-Centred Design and Infrastructure and Governance). 

The post-holder will be responsible for developing and delivering a package of work for the . 

This theme aims to understand how humans interact and behave in sociotechnical systems, and to address research questions of when, how, and why intelligent agents and collective intelligence can create tipping points for collective behaviour change. 

The post-holder will interact closely with our partners in national and local government, as well as the commercial sector, in shaping the research programme. 

This means you may also have the opportunity to work with distinguished scholars throughout our academic community at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and in the AI4CI consortium. 

There is a strong expectation that you will actively contribute to the strong profile of online behaviour and digital technology research work at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and its interdisciplinary ethos through participation in the development and publication of research results in major international conferences and journals. 

You will also be involved with synthesising and disseminating outputs from relevant work as part of a wider programme of knowledge exchange at the AI4CI hub. 

About you 

The ideal candidate will have a good knowledge of social psychology, and will be interested in applying social psychological insights to the development and evaluation of systems for collective intelligence, and have a strong commitment to pursuing applied research in a collaborative and inter-disciplinary setting.

The ideal post-holder will:

• Have a relevant PhD in Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction, Computational Social Science, Data Science, AI, or a related discipline.
• Have advanced knowledge of social psychology.
• Have advanced skills in quantitative methodologies. 
• Have an interest in AI, machine learning, mathematical modelling, and/or digital technology. 
• Be familiar with one or more programming languages (e.g., R, Python, HP, Java, or HTML).
• Be proficient in agent-based modelling or be able to demonstrate the capability to learn. 

Additional information

The post is full-time for 29 months, to start on 1^st September 2026.  

Informal enquiries can be made to Prof Laura Smith (l.g.e.smith@bath.ac.uk). 

As a member of Research Staff at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, you will be encouraged to take up a minimum of 10 days professional development pro rata per year.

A lower grade offer may be made (Grade 6) with comparable reduction in responsibilities and amendment in job title to Research Assistant, if a suitable applicant cannot be found to fill the Grade 7 position. Applicants will need to be within six months of their course completion date and will be promoted to Research Associate once their PhD has been awarded. 

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equity and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff. 

What we can offer you 

We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

• Employee assistance services through Health Assured, including access to the Wisdom app
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø gym
• Staff benefits include discounted postgraduate tuition and language courses, alongside a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities such as apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning, and more
• Local discounts, including free entry to the Holburne Museum in ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø
• A family-friendly workplace 
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses

Find out more about our benefits and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø a great place to work as well as following us and .

Be Well at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø

We’re committed to creating a health-supporting working environment where everyone can thrive and be at their best. We offer a range of resources to enable you to do that from your first day here, including:

• Staff support groups and networks
• A network of Staff Wellbeing Champions
• A suite of tools, resources and frameworks that enable you to be at your best and thrive

Find out more about being at your best at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø.

 

Closing Date: 21 Jun 2026

Department: Education & Research

Salary: £38,784 to £46,049

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a large collaborative team. 

MyWorld is a five-year programme, the flagship for the UK’s creative technology sector. 

MyWorld will position the South West as an international trailblazer in screen-based media. 

This £46m programme brings together 30 partners from Bristol and ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s creative technologies sector and world-leading academic institutions, to create a unique cross-sector consortium. 

MyWorld will forge dynamic collaborations to progress technological innovation, deliver creative excellence, establish and operate state of the art facilities, offer skills training and drive inward investment, raising the region’s profile on the global stage. http://www.myworld-creates.com/ 

Within MyWorld our work package at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, in collaboration with the University of Bristol, is focused on the design and evaluation of audience experiences. 

There exists a range of methods available to measure these effects on audience: interviews, surveys, physiological monitoring, measuring behaviour. 

Our programme of research will map out these pre-existing methods, evaluate and validate them, and then add new cutting-edge methods to this battery. 

We will be working over a range of experiences (TV, VR, AR, Live Theatre, etc.) and with differing types of content (drama, documentary, news). 

The aim is to have real impact in providing the creative industries with an easy to access toolkit to support audience understanding. 

The Research Associate role at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø linked to this work package is aimed at a researcher with a background in Psychology or Human Computer Interaction (HCI) with an interest in technology. 

We will work collaboratively with the Psychology team at Bristol and other partners on the project particularly BBC R&D and BT. 

The postholder will be able to: 

• Design, run, evaluate and write up studies working closely with the project team. 
• Develop and conduct research as part of the project’s multi-disciplinary team to achieve established objectives. 
• Support, engage and assist with the preparation and delivery of high quality research outputs 
• Contribute to the constant enrichment of a vital and sustainable research environment. Contribute 

Additional information

The end date for this project is 31 March 2027.

As a member of Research Staff at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, you will be encouraged to take up a minimum of 10 days professional development pro rata per year.

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equity and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff. 

What we can offer you

We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

• Free counselling services through Health Assured
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø gym
• Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
• Staff discount on language courses
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
• Free entry to the Holburne Museum in ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø
• Local discounts and more
• A family-friendly workplace 
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses

Find out more about our benefits and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø a great place to work as well as following us and .

 

Closing Date: 28 May 2026

Department: Education & Research

Salary: £38,784 to £46,049

About the role

Join our highly supportive team in the Department of Psychology at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, where you will be helping to teach aspirational undergraduate and postgraduate students in Psychology, particularly on the Applied Psychology (Conversion) Master’s.

This role will include developing the teaching material, delivery of lectures, seminars and tutorials, both online and in person. 

Alongside the supervision, assessment and marking of coursework and research dissertations, you will provide advice and support to students, as well as undertake teaching-related management and administration duties.   

Our ideal candidate

• be committed to and have experience of delivering high quality teaching
• show evidence of inclusive teaching practice and student engagement
• have experience supporting students as an Academic Advisor/Personal Tutor or similar

Additional information

This role is offered on a permanent basis.

The department are willing to consider applications for both full time and part-time (0.8 FTE) applicants. 

Informal enquiries can be made to the Director of Studies of the MSc in Applied Psychology, Dr Rhiannon Edwards (rte22@bath.ac.uk ) or the Deputy Head of Department (Education & Student Experience), Prof Richard Joiner (pssrj@bath.ac.uk).

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equity and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff. 

What we can offer you

We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

• Free counselling services through Health Assured
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø gym
• Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
• Staff discount on language courses
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
• Free entry to the Holburne Museum in ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø
• Local discounts and more
• A family-friendly workplace 
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses

Find out more about our benefits and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø a great place to work as well as following us and .

 

Closing Date: 07 Jun 2026

Department: Education & Research

Salary: £47,389 to £56,535