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Senior User Researcher \n £55,000 to 65,000 GBP\n Onsite WORKING\n Location: Manchester, North West - United Kingdom Type: Permanent\n \n Senior User Researcher\n Salary: £55,000 - £65,000\n \n Locations: Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham, Bristol or London\n \n Working Pattern: Hybrid / client-facing consulting\n \n The Opportunity\n \nWe are looking for an experienced Senior User Researcher to join a growing digital consultancy, w...\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ZIPC1_UKTJ

\n User Researcher - Public Sector 6-Month Contract | Inside IR35 | Negotiable Day Rate \n We are looking for an experienced User Researcher to join a public sector organisation on an initial 6-month contract. \n You will work as part of a multidisciplinary digital team, helping to ensure services are designed around genuine user needs and supported by robust research and evidence. \n Key responsibilities: \n\n • \n Plan and deliver user research across different stages of the service life cycle \n • \n Conduct qualitative research including interviews, usability testing, contextual research and workshops \n • \n Identify user needs, behaviours, pain points and opportunities \n • \n Analyse and synthesise research findings into clear, actionable insights \n • \n Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, Business Analysts and Delivery teams \n • \n Champion user-centred design and accessibility throughout the development process \n • \n Communicate research findings effectively to stakeholders and influence service decisions \n • \n Support continuous improvement of services based on user evidence \n\n Essential experience: \n\n • \n Strong commercial experience working as a User Researcher \n • \n Experience delivering research within agile, multidisciplinary teams \n • \n Confident using a range of qualitative research methods \n • \n Experience translating complex research into actionable recommendations \n • \n Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills \n • \n Understanding of accessibility and inclusive research practices \n • \n Public sector or government digital experience would be highly advantageous \n\n Contract details: \n\n • \n Initial 6-month contract \n • \n Inside IR35 \n • \n Negotiable day rate \n • \n Public sector client \n\n If you are an experienced User Researcher looking for your next public sector contract, please apply with an up-to-date CV for further information.

Line managing 1–2 researchers in the practice. Experience working with other designers and researchers in a multidisciplinary team to deliver high quality design work. As a Senior Design Researcher at TPXimpact, you will help lead and deliver design research within our client teams.

Can you see yourself revolutionising the Agentic AI industry? We are a multi-award-winning AI and SaaS provider based in Manchester, dedicated to boosting productivity and efficiency across our global customer base spanning five continents.As an ASR Researcher, you will be the architect of how our a

Methods Business and Digital Technology Limited in Manchester seeks an experienced User Researcher to champion user needs across public sector digital products and services.

TPXimpact seeks a Senior Design Researcher to lead and deliver design research across client teams, contributing to DT Ways and the mission.

The senior postdoctoral assistant will also assist another postdoctoral researcher in the day-to-day supervisorial activities for Eichhorn's wider group of diverse PhD and MSc students, including project supervision, health and safety, and assistance with the drafting of manuscripts. To effectively

User Researcher to join its Digital Customer Experience practice.

This is an outstanding opportunity for a Research Associate with expertise in pre-clinical in-vivo cerebrovascular imaging, vascular physiology or neurovascular coupling to join the Microvascular@Manchester group under the supervision of Adam Greenstein, Ingo Schiessl, Kira Shaw and Harry Pritchard. The post holder will be based within the Division of Cardiovascular Sciences and the Geoffrey Jefferson Brain Research Centre at the University of Manchester. The position is funded through the Manchester NaVigate Partnership, a major collaborative programme investigating how impaired cerebral blood flow contributes to cognitive decline and dementia. The project will determine how vascular amyloid-β(1-40) alters vascular smooth muscle calcium signaling, arterial constriction and cerebral blood flow, and whether these mechanisms can be targeted therapeutically. The successful candidate will lead studies using state-of-the-art pre- clinical in vivo imaging approaches, including multiphoton microscopy and optical imaging methods, to assess pial artery function, vascular smooth muscle calcium signaling and cerebral blood flow in mouse models relevant to Alzheimer’s disease. Complementary approaches will include behavioural assessment, histology, immunohistochemistry and physiological analysis. This position offers an excellent opportunity for an ambitious and highly motivated researcher to lead an exciting translational project within a multidisciplinary academic-industry collaboration. The ideal candidate will have strong experimental and analytical skills, experience in preclinical vascular imaging, and a passion for understanding mechanisms underlying neurovascular dysfunction in dementia. The successful applicant will have opportunities to publish, present internationally, develop collaborations and contribute to future grant applications within The University of Manchester. (Grades 6-9) Our benefits include: • Generous employer contribution pension, • 29 days annual leave plus bank holidays, along with Christmas closure, • Ride to work and EV car scheme available For more information, please see University of Manchester Benefits. You can also find information on our Flexible and Hybrid working here. We are an open place of enquiry and challenge. We embrace and celebrate difference, diversity and debate, and we pride ourselves on being a place of education, learning and community where we are able, within the law, to question and test received wisdom, express new ideas and explore controversial or unpopular topics and opinions. Find out more from our Freedom of Speech Policy. Successful candidates may be subject to pre-employment screening carried out on our behalf by a third party. The offer of employment will be dependent on the successful candidate passing that screening. Whilst you will be required to provide express consent at a later stage, by continuing with your application now you acknowledge that you are aware that such screening will take place, and agree to take part in the process. Enquiries About The Role, Shortlisting And Interviews Name: Dr. Ingo Schiessl Email: General enquiries and administrative support Technical and job portal support support/home Applications close at midnight on the closing date. Please see Further Particulars and Person Specification below #J-18808-Ljbffr

General Postdoctoral Researcher (Masters/PhDs) - AI Training. What if your years of advanced research could directly shape how the world's most powerful AI systems think and reason? We're looking for Masters and PhD researchers to tackle complex, multi-disciplinary problems that push the boundaries

Specialist Computer Centres PLC is seeking an experienced User Researcher to support a large-scale programme and influence service design, product priorities, and user outcomes through evidence-based research.

As part of the wider Government Digital and Data profession, we play a key role in transforming how government operates, enabling better outcomes for colleagues, stakeholders and the public we serve. At Government Legal Department we have a vital, single-minded purpose: to help the Government govern

User Researcher - SC eligible - £400/day via Umbrella - 5 Month Contract - Manchester (Hybrid) - SCC Flex Contract. Your responsibilities as the User Researcher:. As a successful User Researcher, you will have:.

The role emphasizes quantitative data processing, interpretation, and collaboration with sustainable materials researchers to integrate IAQ evidence into retrofit performance assessments.

Version 1 is seeking a Senior User Researcher Consultant to shape meaningful, accessible services for Public Sector clients.

Key requirements include leading user research with behavioural and attitudinal methods, experience across discovery to delivery, familiarity with GDS standards, strong. Stealth iT Consulting is seeking multiple User/UX Researcher Consultants (Mid & Senior) to join a fast‑growing team delivering D

As a Senior Data Science & Machine Learning Researcher, you will focus on research-led development, working across short exploratory tasks and longer-term R&D initiatives. SENIOR DATA SCIENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCHER ESSENTIAL SKILLS. Strong background in data science and machine learning res

This fully remote, hourly contract role invites researchers to tackle advanced AI reasoning challenges alongside leading labs. Alignerr is seeking a General Postdoctoral Researcher ( Masters/PhDs ) for AI training.

If you’re a User Researcher who enjoys uncovering insight, challenging assumptions and turning research into meaningful change, we’d love to hear from you. User Researcher - Digital Customer Experience. We’re looking for an experienced User Researcher to join a growing Digital Customer Experie

Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, developers, and other User Researchers to plan and conduct high-impact research that helps develop a better understanding of our clients' users. Help to embed user-centred design and user research best practices into teams and the wider business. Experi

Within the Chief Security Office (CSO) our role is to protect the Group and our customers from security threats, and to enable the Group's businesses to make change to their services safely and quickly. We are establishing a new Autonomous Vulnerability Research (Harness Engineering) Team with a bold mission: to build the Group's agentic vulnerability research platform, enabling AI-powered vulnerability discovery, exploit validation, risk prioritisation, and remediation verification at unprecedented scale and speed. As a Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer, you will build and operate the infrastructure that the harness runs on. Autonomous agents executing offensive security workloads demand an unusually high bar: strong isolation, tightly controlled egress, hardened runtimes, and complete evidential traceability. You will design that platform - making it fast for researchers and engineers to work on, and impossible to misuse. • Design, build, and operate the Kubernetes-based platform hosting agentic research workloads, including episodic and isolated execution environments., • Own infrastructure-as-code across GCP using Terraform, delivering reproducible, reviewable, and policy-compliant environments., • Engineer secure container and VM images with hardened baselines, minimal attack surface, and automated patching., • Implement egress-controlled networking, network policy, service mesh controls, and segmentation to ensure agents can only reach sanctioned targets., • Build CI/CD pipelines with integrated supply-chain security: SBOMs, image signing, artefact provenance, and automated policy gates., • Deliver comprehensive observability - logs, metrics, distributed traces, and cost telemetry - across long-running, non-deterministic agent workloads., • Build evidence-capture pipelines: immutable audit trails, artefact retention, and reproducible run records suitable for assurance and regulatory scrutiny., • Manage secrets, identity, and workload authentication with least-privilege access across all platform components., • Partner with AI Engineering to ensure agent runtimes scale efficiently and fail safely, and with Security Architecture to evidence control effectiveness. Why join us? We're transforming at pace. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We're growing, and we'd love you to be part of the journey., Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative. We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need. • Deep, hands-on Kubernetes experience: workload design, networking, autoscaling, RBAC, and multi-tenancy isolation., • Strong Terraform and infrastructure-as-code skills, with a track record of managing production cloud estates., • Substantial GCP experience (GKE, IAM, VPC/networking, Cloud Build/Artifact Registry, or equivalents) - or comparable depth in another major cloud with willingness to work in GCP., • Container and VM hardening expertise, including image minimisation, runtime security, and vulnerability management., • Practical experience implementing egress control, network policy, and segmentation in cloud-native environments., • Strong CI/CD engineering skills and experience embedding security controls into delivery pipelines., • Observability expertise across logging, tracing, and metrics, including designing for auditability and evidence retention., • A security-first mindset with the judgement to balance researcher velocity against containment requirements., • Experience building platforms for offensive security, malware analysis, or other high-risk workloads requiring strong isolation., • Experience supporting AI/ML or LLM workloads, including GPU scheduling, inference infrastructure, or agent runtime environments., • Cloud or Kubernetes certifications, or cyber security related qualifications and trainings., • Contributions to open-source infrastructure, platform, or security tooling., • Experience operating within highly regulated environments such as financial services, including evidencing controls to audit and risk functions. We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply. At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop. We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we're building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference. • A generous pension contribution of up to 15%, • An annual performance-related bonus, • Share schemes including free shares, • Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping, • 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top, • A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies #J-18808-Ljbffr

As a Research Manager, you'll take briefs from our customers through to delivery. Relevant experience and demonstrated capability in audience insight or market research roles (agency or client-side). We're looking for a strong quantitative researcher who's ready to take greater ownership of projects

Mentor and guide team members, upskilling junior researchers and fostering a collaborative. As a Senior User Researcher Consultant at Version 1, you will shape meaningful, accessible services that deliver lasting value across our Public Sector Clients.

We are looking for an experienced User Researcher to join our growing team on a permanent basis.

Senior User Researchers are experienced practitioners who are confident at working with UCD colleagues and professions outside of our service line such as the Data & tech teams. Experienced in user centred, lean and agile research methodologies including:. They do this by conducting user research th

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DWP Digital is seeking a User Researcher to plan, design and deliver research using qualitative and quantitative methods across services used by millions.

A senior postdoctoral position is available for an ambitious individual to carry out the molecular modelling of cellulose oligomers investigating the self-assembly of the polymer in the plant cell wall. The senior postdoctoral assistant will also assist another postdoctoral researcher in the day-to-day supervisorial activities for Eichhorn’s wider group of diverse PhD and MSc students, including project supervision, health and safety, and assistance with the drafting of manuscripts. The successful applicant will undertake a fundamental study of the assembly of cellulose, using a unique approach of cellulose oligomers that have surfactant-like properties. There have many recent attempts to synthesize cellulose analogues in the laboratory, through self-assembly methods using enzymatic produced oligomeric forms. This work will pave the way for the practical assembly of cellulose oligomeric forms by screening large arrays of structures with different moieties and charges. To effectively do this, the postdoctoral researcher will combine machine learning, molecular dynamics simulations and high performance computing (Isambard AI). Applicants must have a PhD in an appropriate area of computational chemistry or a related discipline and experience in the molecular modelling of polymers, polysaccharides, and preferably cellulose. Informal enquiries are welcome and should be made to Steve Eichhorn (Email: ). • The conducting of high-quality and publishable research in the area of the molecular modelling of cellulose and related materials e.g. other plant cell wall polymers. This will involve the implementation, execution and analysis of advanced molecular simulations, the use of machine learning techniques and deployment on state-of-the‑art high performance computing platforms. Through interaction with the PI and other members of the team, contributing proactively to the development, progression and execution of the project, • Analysing and interpreting data and make a significant input to the scientific direction of the project, • Preparation and presentation of regular reports on research progress We welcome candidates who bring diverse perspectives, experiences, and approaches to their work We encourage applications from individuals with a wide range of backgrounds and experiences. You should demonstrate: • Ph.D. in computational chemistry, computational materials science or a relevant discipline, • Proven research skills, • Scientific scripting / programming, • Experience in molecular dynamics simulations of polymers, • Molecular modelling and simulation experience during PhD, • Ability to present complex information effectively to a range of audiences, • Experience of manipulating and visualizing large datasets We value transferable skills and real-world experience as much as formal qualifications. • Generous employer contribution pension, • 29 days annual leave plus bank holidays, along with Christmas closure, • Ride to work and EV car scheme available For more information, please see University of Manchester Benefits. You can also find information on our Flexible and Hybrid working here. We are an open place of enquiry and challenge. We embrace and celebrate difference, diversity and debate, and we pride ourselves on being a place of education, learning and community where we are able, within the law, to question and test received wisdom, express new ideas and explore controversial or unpopular topics and opinions. Find out more from our Freedom of Speech Policy. Name: Professor Steve Eichhorn Email Address: #J-18808-Ljbffr

Searchability NS&D in Manchester is seeking a Senior Data Science & Machine Learning Researcher to lead research-led development, balancing short exploratory tasks with longer-term R&D initiatives.

A leading IT services consultancy is seeking a Senior User Researcher to join their hybrid team. You will conduct user research, advocate for users, and mentor less experienced colleagues while ensuring research quality across the Digital Delivery portfolio.

United States Digital Space LLC in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior UX Researcher to lead strategic and tactical research initiatives across our platform, partnering with Product, Design, Engineering, Data, and other customer facing teams to uncover customer insights and inform decisions.You w

ConnexAI, a Manchester-based AI and SaaS provider, is seeking an ASR Researcher to help our agents hear and understand speech.You will join a world-class research team with in-house annotation to curate high-quality data for model training.You will tackle state-of-the-art ASR challenges, advance LLM

Candidates will engage in groundbreaking research funded by the Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellowship, focusing on probabilistic modelling in diverse areas including human-AI interaction and drug design.

You will work with the electron microscopy center in the Nancy Rothwell Building and NGI, using 4D-STEM, STEM-EELS, and Python-based data analysis tools, with Protochips Poseidon holder for. University of Manchester seeks a researcher to lead advanced STEM/TEM studies on beam-sensitive electrocataly

British Council is seeking a quantitative researcher to design and deliver rigorous research using large data sets. You will support strategy with evidence, communicate findings to non-technical audiences and contribute to high-impact narratives for external stakeholders. The role involves developing specialist expertise in quantitative methods, collaborating with sector teams, and helping to build capacity in data management and policy insight across the organisation. #J-18808-Ljbffr

The senior postdoctoral assistant will also assist another postdoctoral researcher in the day-to-day supervisorial activities for Eichhorn's wider group of diverse PhD and MSc students, including project supervision, health and safety, and assistance with the drafting of manuscripts. To effectively

Research positions available in machine learning at all levels: Research Fellow, Postdoc, PhD student. Turing AI Fellowship, Univ Manchester, UK. Still some positions available in my new research group funded by the Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellowship: Human-AI Research Teams: Steering AI

User Researcher - Public Sector. Strong commercial experience working as a User Researcher.

Hands-on experience of leading user research, using behavioural and attitudinal methods and knowing when to apply them appropriately. Experience working in multi-disciplinary, agile teams where you’ve led the user research and influenced the design of a product or service through the insights you�

You’ll collaborate with multidisciplinary, agile teams to shape accessible, user-centred services and translate findings into actionable insights that influence design and product strategy.

Capgemini Invent is seeking a Junior User Researcher to join its Digital Excellence community in the UK.

A leading consultancy firm in Manchester is seeking an experienced Senior User Researcher to champion user experience in public sector environments.

A consultancy firm in Manchester is seeking an experienced Senior User Researcher to lead user research, influence service design, and mentor teams.

Harvey Nash Group is seeking a User Researcher for a public sector client on a 6-month contract inside IR35 with a negotiable day rate. The role involves delivering user research across the service lifecycle within an agile, multidisciplinary team. You'll conduct interviews, usability testing, contextual research and workshops, translate findings into actionable insights, and champion accessibility throughout development. Public sector experience is advantageous. #J-18808-Ljbffr

Junior User Researcher - Associate Consultant - Digital ExcellenceGlasgow, London, ManchesterApply for this job Permanent Experienced Professionals Strategy & Transformation ID 350231-en\_GB## . As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilit

We are seeking an experienced Senior User Researcher to join our growing team on a permanent basis.

As a Senior User Researcher, you will work within multi-disciplinary Agile teams, lead research strategies, mentor colleagues, and advise clients on embedding user-centred design. Experience of championing user-centred design and service design approaches. Lead user research across projects, using a

As a User Researcher, you’ll join a growing digital and experience design community working across multidisciplinary teams of designers, product managers, developers and researchers.