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ESRC Trusted AI Project Post-Doctoral Researcher

University of NorthumbriaUK

Salary
£50k – £50k
Posted
3 September 2026
Work mode
Full-time
Sponsor match
medium
Government Authorised Exchange Temporary Worker (A rating)
Role overview

University of Northumbria is hiring a ESRC Trusted AI Project Post-Doctoral Researcher in UK, a full-time scientific & qa role advertised as contract. The advertised salary is £50k – £50k. University of Northumbria holds an active licence on the UK Home Office register of sponsors for the Government Authorised Exchange route, which means it can sponsor a visa for this hire if it chooses to.

Description ABOUT THE ROLE As a Research Associate, you will take a leading role in the project Trustworthy AI for Peer Review: Developing and Validating Composite Research Quality Indicators. Your work will focus on constructing high-quality REF-aligned corpora of research outputs, using and extending the full-text cache and metadata pipelines developed through our software: Macroscope. You will collect, clean, link, and document text and bibliographic data so that it can support rigorous test…
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  • Employer: University of Northumbria — confirmed licensed sponsor
  • Visa route: Government Authorised Exchange
  • Advertised salary: £50k – £50k
  • How this salary compares: about 24% above the £40,675 median across 718 scientific & qa roles with published salaries on FindSponsorJobs
  • Location: UK · Full-time
  • Similar roles nearby: 127 other live scientific & qa roles in UK browse them
  • Posted: 3 September 2026
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