The University of Edinburgh

Research Technician

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Location
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Posted At
7/14/2025
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The Opportunity

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are looking for a Research Technician grade UE05 to join the EXPPECT Team, a multidisciplinary team advancing research into patient-centered management of pelvic pain. The position is based within the Centre for Reproductive Health located within the Institute for Regeneration and Repair at the Edinburgh BioQuarter working closely with the clinical team within the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

The individual will work as a member of the team with responsibility for recovery and evaluation of clinical samples. They will provide technical support to the Team’s Post Doc using a variety of laboratory techniques They will provide technical support to students, scientists and clinicians and will ensure research areas and resources are well managed.

This post is full-time (35 hours per week), due to the unpredictable nature of the sample collection flexibility in the working day will be required.

The salary for this post isat Grade UE05: £29,179 to £33,482 per annum.

Your Skills And Attributes For Success

  • Honours degree in life science related subject.
  • GCP certificate.
  • Relevant vaccinations.
  • Relevant laboratory work experience.
  • Understanding of reproductive health systems.

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Application Information

Please ensure you include the following documents in your application:

  • CV
  • Cover letter

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.

Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab).

The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. They will 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 1 August 2025.

Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.

Interviews will be held 14 August 2025.

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 Centre for Reproductive Health (CRH; Director; Professor Andrew Horne) at the University of Edinburgh has the largest concentration in the UK of scientists who study reproductive health, from basic biology to clinical translation. It is one of the leading Centres in reproductive health in the world and is a trusted source for this research globally.

CRH conducts fundamental and applied research that aims to develop novel treatments for the major unmet needs in reproductive disorders and to exploit impacts of this research across medicine. The internationally competitive research activity of reproductive scientists based within the Centre is augmented by clinical activities based within the adjacent Royal Infirmary and Simpson Centre for Reproductive Health.

A central mission is “to gain fundamental understanding of the impact of reproductive processes and their pathologies on the entire life-span of males and females: to use this knowledge to improve human health from birth to old age and to provide leadership in training and public engagement in reproductive health“. This vision is currently enabled by four groupings: (i) Reproductive Resilience, Proliferation, Differentiation and Repair (ii) Reproductive system cancers: aetiology, pathogenesis and therapy (iii) Optimizing life-long health through pregnancy and perinatal interventions (iv) Immune-Endocrine interactions in Reproductive Health.

https://www.ed.ac.uk/centre-reproductive-health
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