Job Description
Grade UE07: £40,497- 48,149 per annum, pro-rata if part time
CAHSS-
Business School
Full time: 35 hours per week (part-time will be considered)
Fixed-Term: Until 15th June 2026
The Opportunity
This post is full-time (35 hours per week); however, we are open to considering part-time or flexible working patterns. We are also open to considering requests for hybrid working (on a non-contractual basis) that combines a mix of remote and regular on-campus working. We are seeking to recruit a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the project titled “A Targeted Support System to Bridge the Advice Gap,” sponsored by UKFin+ (EPSRC), to work jointly with Raffaella Calabrese and Fidelity International. The candidate will develop a new tool that Fidelity will adopt to provide targeted support for its customers to fill the financial advice gap. Responsibilities include data analysis, developing models, and contributing to the dissemination and publication of research findings. The role also involves working in tandem with the Head of Product Policy and the Group Head of Strategy and Planning at Fidelity International. This position presents an excellent opportunity for the candidate to contribute to high-impact research and publish in top ranking academic journals. A flexible starting date is 3 rd September 2025, with an end date of 15 th of June 2026.
Your Skills And Attributes For Success
- A PhD or last year PhD student in Statistics, Operations Research, Computational Sciences or Economics, Management Science or closely related field.
- Experience of designing and performing data analyses.
- Excellent programming skills in Python or R.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to publish in high quality peer-reviewed, academic journals.
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Application Information
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As a valued member of our team you can expect:
- A competitive salary
- An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
- To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community
- Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, competitive pension schemes, staff discounts, and family-friendly initiatives. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits
Championing equality, diversity and inclusion
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
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On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
Key dates to note
The closing date for applications is
15 th September
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Interviews will be held
in the week from 29 th of September to the 3 rd of October
About Us
As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.
About The Team
The aim of University of Edinburgh Business School is to be a world-class Business School within a world-class University. We are distinctive, fostering a unique coaching culture, where all students have access to coaching and much of this is facilitated by peer support leaders from the student cohorts. The Business School is focused on sustainability, aiming to anchor the UN Sustainable Development goals into our strategic planning and developing our activities in line with the University’s target to be carbon-neutral by 2040. Furthermore we are actively participating in data-driven innovation which envisages Edinburgh becoming the Data Capital of Europe.
Based in the heart of Edinburgh, staff at the Business School are immersed in the vibrant life of the city. The Business School has excellent transport links including buses and a location that is only a 20 minute walk from Edinburgh Waverley station. In the summer we find ourselves with easy access to the Edinburgh International Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. For a breath of fresh air all year round, green spaces such as George Square and the Meadows are right outside our front door.
The culture of the Business School is people orientated and diverse; we have a strong Equality and Diversity committee made up of both academic and professional services staff and we are committed to the principles of Athena SWAN https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/equality-charters/athena-swan-charter . We also support staff in a hybrid working environment and offer the possibility for most roles to work in a combination of on-campus and at-home working where suits both them and the organisation.
Academically, we are an interdisciplinary School with particular strengths in management science, leadership organisations and society, interdisciplinary accounting, corporate finance, climate change and sustainability, and entrepreneurship. The School is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the EFMD Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) and the Association of MBAs (AMBA). This triple accreditation highlights the quality of teaching and excellence of research at the School.
Detailed information can be found at the School website at www.business-school.ed.ac.uk
