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CRASSH offers support to postdocs and academic staff employed by the University of Cambridge or one of its Colleges to run a wide range of events and creative initiatives. We invite you to apply for funding and logistical support for any activity that will foster the exchange of ideas across disciplines and cultures, forge new collaborations between researchers and other participants, bring academic research to wider publics, or explore the connections between research and artistic practice.
Department of Public Policy (Bennett School of Public Policy)
Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 2 years in the first instance.
Applications are invited for a Research Assistant/Associate at the new Bennett School of Public Policy (BSPP) in the Faculty of Human, Social and Political Science .
Department of Psychology
A post-doctoral Research Associate or Research Assistant position in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience is available to work with Prof Zoe Kourtzi at the Adaptive Brain Lab, University of Cambridge, UK (http://www.abg.psychol.cam.ac.uk).
Department of Psychology
A post-doctoral Research Associate or Research Assistant position in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience is available to work with Prof Zoe Kourtzi at the Adaptive Brain Lab, University of Cambridge, UK (http://www.abg.psychol.cam.ac.uk).
Restricted Call: Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships (internal deadline: 23rd October 2025)
The National Environment Research Council (NERC) has announced the Artificial intelligence (AI) for environmental science phase one call.
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
The Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics invites applications for an Assistant Teaching Professor in the field of Data Intensive Science. This full-time position would be directly connected to the MPhil in Data Intensive Science ( https://mphildis.bigdata.cam.ac.uk/).
The Alan Turing Institute in collaboration with the Innovate UK BridgeAI Programme (supported by PricewaterhouseCoopers)
Event dates: Monday 26th January - Friday 6th February
Cambridge Institute for Technology and Humanity
The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) plans to appoint a Research Professor (Grade 11) to support the Centre's activities. This is a part-time position at 0.6 FTE for a period of one year to provide temporary cover, to start on the 01 January 2026.
Founders at the University of Cambridge is accepting applications for SYNC 2.0, Cambridge’s co-founder matching accelerator. This part-time programme brings together over 40 students, researchers and alumni to form co-founding teams and launch startups. Whether you’ve been exploring an idea for years, tackling challenges through side projects or spotting problems in industry, SYNC is for those ready to act now, building a startup and going full-time.
The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) in the Institute of Technology and Humanity (ITH) are looking for supervisors for their new MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience.
Department of Computer Science and Technology
Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 2 years, with potential extension possible.
We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the general area of wearable sensing systems for the ear and the head, wearable signal processing and sensing data machine learning to join the Mobile Systems Research Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.
The recent publication of AI-driven protein structure prediction methods, such as AlphaFold, Boltz-1, Chai and RosettaFold has opened a host of new possibilities for working with protein sequences and structures. At Cambridge University, the people working with (AI-driven) protein structure prediction methods are spread over different groups and departments, with often only one person in a group working with these methods.
Cambridge Stem Cell Institute (SBS)
Fixed-term: The funds for this post in the first instance is are available for 24 months.
The Cambridge Stem Cell Institute is an international centre of excellence for stem cell research and regenerative medicine. Scientists in the Institute collaborate to advance our knowledge of various stem cell types and to perform pioneering work in translational research areas, providing the foundation for new medical treatments (https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/).
Department of Computer Science and Technology
Department of Computer Science and Technology
Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 3 years.
A doctoral studentship is available in the forthcoming Aspirational Computing Lab (February 2026) in the Department of Computer Science and Technology (CST) at the University of Cambridge.
The goal of this PhD programme is to launch one "deceptive by design" project that combines the perspectives of human-computer interaction (HCI) and critical computing. High-level topics include:
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