Post Doctoral Research Associate - Discovering Liveability Project

Closing Date: Monday 27 April 2026

Interview Date: Friday 22 May 2026

This is an exciting opportunity for a Post Doctoral Research Associate to join the Wellcome-funded Discovering Liveability: Co-producing alternatives to suicide prevention project. The successful candidate will be joining an ambitious, collaborative and supportive interdisciplinary and cross-institutional team and will be actively contributing to innovative and impactful suicide research that centres liveability and lived/living experience. More information about the project can be found here.

The University of Lincoln supports hybrid working (on a non-contractual basis). This is not a remote role and so regular attendance on the University campus will be required. The post requires travel for in-person ethnographic work (expenses provided) with community-based organisations supporting those experiencing suicidality in England (the exact locations will be discussed with the successful applicant when they start in post).

We particularly encourage candidates from racialised and minoritised backgrounds to apply to this role, in line with our project goal to contribute to diversifying suicide research whilst working with diverse and marginalised communities. In addition, we welcome applications from candidates who have lived/living experiences with suicide/suicidality.

The salary for this post is Grade 7, Spinal Point 30 on The University of Lincoln Single Pay Spine.

Experience/Skills You Will Need to Succeed in this Role

• A PhD in a relevant Social Science discipline
• Experience of ethnographic (or related qualitative) research
• Experience of networking and/or working with Third Sector and/or community-based organisations or working and/or researching in community settings
• Experience of working with critical social science theories/approaches (for example, critical suicide studies, Mad studies, critical race theory, gender theory, critical disability/crip studies, etc)
• Skills to engage and build rapport with individuals of diverse backgrounds and the ability to apply these skills in inter-personal work
• Skills to work both independently and as a member of a collaborative team
• Skills to communicate with both academic and non-academic audiences in a range of formats

Benefits of the Post

• Competitive salary;
• Access to a personal well-being fund throughout your time on the Discovering Liveability project
• Access to training and career development opportunities and mentoring support
• Join a diverse and supportive team of suicide researchers
• Be part of an exciting, positive, creative and challenging project
• Be part of an innovative team whose work focuses on challenging current suicide knowledge, policies and practices
• Become part of a diverse and vibrant international community committed to furthering new suicide knowledge and research

Please note that this post requires a Basic DBS check.

Further details:

• Job Description and Person Specification

You can find out more about working at Lincoln, and everything that we have to offer, at: https://www.lincoln.ac.uk/jobopportunities/