Top Research Jobs in Bristol

Lead a multidisciplinary team to invent and develop high-performance turbomachinery and motor aero designs, drive aero-acoustic performance, DFM/DFA, supplier negotiations, project planning, validation, and technology roadmaps to meet cost, size, weight and efficiency targets.

Lead research into gas and water filtration technologies: scope and run technical projects, design or specify experimental rigs, develop test methods, perform literature and experimental assessment, manage stakeholders, and communicate results to technical and non-technical teams to enable technology transfer and optimisation.

Conducts on-site and remote clinical trial monitoring across the study lifecycle, ensuring regulatory, ICH-GCP, protocol, data integrity, informed consent, investigational product, and site file compliance. Manages site communications, recruitment support, query resolution, documentation, audit readiness, and corrective actions. Collaborates with sponsors, project teams, regulatory staff, and clinical partners, may mentor junior CRAs, and supports investigator meetings, training, and operational improvements. Requires UK monitoring experience and travel up to 75%.

Manage, quality-check, process, and analyze MRI data from multiple sclerosis clinical studies. Responsibilities include running established imaging pipelines, manually segmenting brain images, assessing intracranial and brain volumes, analyzing white matter lesions, and generating parametric maps. The role may also involve supervised research projects and supports imaging outcomes across the University of Edinburgh’s clinical research portfolio.

Build and maintain a consultant pool supporting Just Energy Transition Partnership work in South Africa, Indonesia, and Senegal. Responsibilities may include policy and systems research, actor mapping, comparative analysis, stakeholder strategy, convening and dialogue facilitation, dissemination, and clear writing for policy, public, and funder audiences. Consultants will work independently on time-bound engagements involving business, finance, government, civil society, and human rights considerations.

Supports multidisciplinary research on decarbonisation strategies in cancer care. Responsibilities include developing and conducting a scoping review, designing search strategies, screening and analysing evidence, extracting data, piloting qualitative interviews, supporting research prioritisation, disseminating findings, drafting publications, assisting project management, and contributing to grant applications and team development.

Develop and manage clinical change order budgets for biotech, medtech, and specialty pharma clients. Coordinate with business development, finance, contracts, and project management teams; schedule and consolidate budget inputs; resolve issues; calculate resource and service fees; analyze costs; and support customer budget presentations. The role requires understanding CRO services and clinical trial processes, strong mathematics and accounting fundamentals, advanced Microsoft Office skills, and excellent organization and communication.

Leads study start-up performance and teams across the United Kingdom, managing staffing, resources, utilization, timelines, process efficiency, contractual compliance, and risk management. Collaborates with global SSU leadership to standardize processes and improve team capabilities. Requires clinical or scientific expertise, substantial clinical trials or pharmaceutical industry experience, personnel management experience, and detailed knowledge of ICH/GCP, ISO 14155, FDA, European, and country-specific regulatory requirements.

Conduct industry, market, competitor, and target-account research across enterprise technology and industrial sectors. Analyze procurement processes, customer priorities, comparable products, and emerging opportunities. Summarize findings in reports and presentations while supporting consulting and product initiatives. Collaborate with leadership on commercial strategy and organize complex information into clear insights.

Provides post-award financial administration for externally funded research grants, including budget monitoring, claims, reporting, forecasting, project closure, KPI tracking, and audit preparation. The role supports academic colleagues, ensures compliance with funder requirements, resolves financial issues, liaises with funders, builds stakeholder relationships, and contributes to process improvement and consistent service delivery across the research grants portfolio.

Supports evidence synthesis research on the use of evidence in policymaking. Responsibilities include documentary and qualitative data collection and analysis, developing research methods, drafting publications, presenting findings, supporting staff and students, addressing project issues, and completing research administration. The role requires relevant academic qualifications, evidence synthesis experience, qualitative analysis skills, clear communication, resource management, and competency with EPPI Reviewer and MAXQDA.

Leads compliance initiatives and audits of financial professional offices, evaluates regulatory adherence, documents findings, communicates deficiencies, supports remediation, trains team members, improves procedures, and provides compliance guidance. The role requires managing multiple audits, follow-ups, travel logistics, regulatory updates, and escalated issues while maintaining FINRA licensing and industry knowledge.

Supports research in Medical Education focused on compassion and empathy. Conducts defined research activities, contributes to project team delivery, and works with project leads to meet study requirements. The role is part-time, fixed-term for 24 months, with potential hybrid working. Applicants must provide a CV and cover letter and demonstrate the right to work in the UK without visa sponsorship.

Conduct basic science research on neurodegeneration and multiple sclerosis, focusing on mitochondrial function and mitochondrial DNA at the single-cell level in animal brain tissue. Collaborate with researchers at University College London and the Dementia Research Institute, contribute to laboratory research, and work with a balance of supervised tasks and independent initiative.

Conduct frontier applied research on efficient AI model architectures, including sparse attention, long-context memory, selective computation, dynamic inference, reasoning, and continual adaptation. Formulate research questions, design rigorous experiments at meaningful scales, develop efficient implementations, publish findings, contribute to open-source tools and models, mentor researchers, and help direct the research stream.

Leads the College of Medicine and Health research support team, overseeing pre-award support, research development, proposal drafting, budgeting, compliance, due diligence, grant setup, and contract negotiation. The role manages approximately 25 professionals, develops research-support processes, monitors performance, leads strategic partnerships, supports complex agreements, and promotes staff development, equality, and continuous service improvement across the University.

Develops, validates, and supports R Shiny applications and reusable programming utilities for clinical trial review, data visualization, statistical reporting, quality control, and regulatory submissions. Uses R, SAS, and Python while collaborating with biostatisticians, statistical programmers, data management, clinical operations, and IT. Ensures solutions meet GxP, Computer Software Assurance, testing, scalability, performance, and company standards.

Conduct world-leading interdisciplinary research within the Decisions Cluster of the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life, examining how AI and algorithmic technologies transform decision-making. Develop research and funding plans, collaborate across disciplines, contribute to knowledge exchange and the research environment, support postgraduate research students, and undertake academic administration and citizenship activities.

Own operational delivery for complex research customer projects, including participant acquisition, onboarding, verification, activation, quality monitoring, and supply development. Build project plans, workflows, playbooks, and scalable processes while optimizing participant funnels and operational metrics. Partner with product, data, science, and customer success teams to improve time-to-data, fill rates, participant quality, and customer outcomes across Prolific’s Research platform.

Conducts qualitative and quantitative research on technology partner ecosystems, alliances, marketplaces, channels, and go-to-market strategies across EMEA. Responsibilities include survey design, data analysis, executive interviews, market research, written thought leadership, consulting support, client presentations, webinars, and trend analysis involving AI and cloud ecosystems.

Conduct patient preference and health outcomes research for pharmaceutical and medical device clients. Responsibilities include literature reviews, study protocol development, choice experiment design, patient interviews, focus groups, qualitative coding, econometric analysis, scientific writing, project coordination, client meetings, and quality control.

Conduct independent research on frontier AI evaluation and auditing. Design rigorous evaluations, audit methods, and reproducible experimental pipelines; analyze model capabilities, risks, robustness, and alignment-relevant behavior. Produce audit reports, recommendations, publications, tools, and presentations while collaborating with technical, policy, engineering, and standards teams. The role requires careful handling of confidential information and may involve pilot audits with frontier AI companies.

Leads strategic internal and external communications for the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, covering media relations, social media, website, newsletters, publications, events and campaigns. Develops content, manages communications planning and brand compliance, evaluates audience engagement, builds relationships with media and stakeholders, supports senior spokespeople, and contributes to crisis communications. The role may include line management, committee representation, occasional travel, evening and weekend work, and reactive press support.

Design and run ML experiments, implement and optimize algorithms for hardware efficiency, collaborate with researchers and engineers, and publish and present results at AI conferences.

Lead the research and design organization across Airalo’s consumer and B2B products. Set design strategy, unify product experiences, own brand expression within the product, and establish scalable design systems, accessibility standards, quality processes, and career frameworks. Partner with Product and Marketing, use research to shape the roadmap, develop design leaders, and build the team needed to support the company’s growth.