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September 18, 2025

**Job Description**
This full-time, fixed-term Postdoctoral Research Associate position, available from November 2025 until July 2027, is situated within the Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy at the University of Exeter. The successful applicant will be numerically competent and will support Professor Stuart Bearhop’s work by conducting original research in animal migration and foraging ecology, assisting with teaching delivery, and contributing to the management of his research group.

**Skills & Abilities**
• Numerically competent
• Teaching and delivery of field courses
• Publishing results of work in peer-reviewed journals
• Population ecology, demographic models
• Advanced statistical techniques
• Fieldwork in animal ecology

**Qualifications**
Required Degree(s) in:
• Animal Ecology (PhD or submitted PhD)

**Experience**
Other:
• Willingness to travel to remote field sites

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Experience
Other: • Willingness to travel to remote field sites
Work Level
Ph.D, Postdoc
Employment Type
Research Job
Salary
Benefits: Sector-leading benefits around maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave (up to 26 weeks full pay), Paternity leave (up to 6 weeks full pay), and a new Fertility Treatment Policy.
Details
Full-time / Fixed-term Duration: Approximately 20 months, until 2027-07-31 Location Requirement: Willingness to travel to remote field sites Campus-based in Cornwall
School / Department / Center / Lab
• Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy - Ecology and Conservation
Supervisor(s)
Professor Stuart Bearhop
Supervisor Email
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University of Exeter
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Education
Phone
+44 1392 661000 +44 1392 66**** Show
Location
Exeter