External Fellowship Applicants
The University of Aberdeen welcomes expressions of interest from external applicants to UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships and other independent fellowship schemes including EU Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships.
The University is committed to equality of opportunity, to eliminating discrimination and to creating an inclusive working environment. We strongly encourage candidates irrespective of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion and belief, gender identity, sex, or sexual orientation.
The University of Aberdeen is a research-intensive university with an equal commitment to excellence in education and in research. We are seeking to appoint people who will help us achieve our goals. We'll consider supporting applications in any area of our research aligned to our strategic priorities.
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Vice-Principal (Regional Engagement & Innovation), University Senior Management
Founded in 1495, the University of Aberdeen is Scotland’s third oldest university and the fifth oldest in the UK. Today, we are recognised as one of the country’s leading institutions, ranked 18th in the UK by the Guardian University Guide 2026 and 23rd by the Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026. Our education and impact are powered by world-class research across five interdisciplinary priority areas: Energy Transition; Social Inclusion and Cultural Diversity; Environment and Biodiversity; Data and AI; and Health, Nutrition and Wellbeing.We are deeply committed to playing a leading role in the economic, social and cultural life of our region, working in partnership to deliver innovation, enterprise and inclusive growth locally, nationally and internationally.
Provost, University Senior Management
Founded in 1495, the University of Aberdeen is Scotland’s third oldest university and the fifth oldest in the UK. Today, we are recognised as one of the country’s leading institutions, ranked 18th in the UK by the Guardian University Guide 2026 and 23rd by the Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026. Our education is powered by world-class research in five interdisciplinary priority areas: Energy Transition; Social Inclusion and Cultural Diversity; Environment and Biodiversity; Data and AI; and Health, Nutrition and Wellbeing.
Clinical Teaching Fellow, Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition
Applications are invited from suitably qualified General Dental Surgeons for multiple part-time (0.2FTE) Clinical Teaching Fellow posts in Primary Dental Care to work on Thursdays and/or Mondays to supervise student teaching clinics or in the clinical simulation environment. This role is ideal for skilled General Dental Practitioners who would like to expand their clinical portfolio by teaching and favourably influencing the education of the next generation of dentists whilst developing professional relationships with colleagues.
Lecturer in Education (Teaching & Scholarship), Education
The School of Education is seeking to recruit a Lecturer in Education (Teaching and Scholarship) to work in the Department of Postgraduate Taught and Professional Learning primarily in support of the Teaching Qualification in Further Education (TQFE) programme.The principal duties of this role will be programme director and leading teaching and assessment. This will involve leading and managing the TQFE team, liaising with college tutors across the sector, representing the University of Aberdeen on national groups and promoting the programme to attract potential new students.
Research Assistant/Fellow (Statistician), Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition
The Aberdeen Centre for Evaluation (ACE)’s specific aims are to work for the implementation of better health and social care, identify developments within health and social care that are effective, efficient and high quality, and explore and understand experiences of health and social care.This work is underpinned by the Centre undertaking work with patient and public partners, undertaking capacity building, education and training, using and developing interdisciplinary approaches and leading the way with the development and implementation of new and innovative methodological approaches.
Research Fellow /Advanced Research Fellow, Natural & Computing Sciences
We are seeking to recruit a research fellow/advanced research fellow with a strong background in materials chemistry to join a vibrant research team under the leadership of Dr Ieuan Seymour in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Aberdeen. This post is supported by Dr Ieuan Seymour’s UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship on ‘Sustainability from Cradle to Crave: Halide Based Electrolytes for All-Solid-State-Batteries’.
Lecturer in Energy Transition - Electrical Power Systems, Engineering
The School of Engineering at the University of Aberdeen is a research-intensive, interdisciplinary school engaged in fundamental and applied research and offering Undergraduate (UG) and Postgraduate (PGT) degree programmes across five Engineering disciplines: Chemical, Civil, Electrical and Electronic, Mechanical, and Petroleum. The School’s research spans the main engineering disciplines across five Research Groups and a number of Research Centres (https://www.abdn.ac.uk/engineering/research/index.php).