Our synergistic research, education and enterprise delivers ground-breaking knowledge on fundamental scientific problems. We apply this knowledge to address pressing environmental and societal challenges, while educating and training the next generation to build and steward our planet for the future. We deliver major degree programmes in natural sciences, oceanography, marine biology, geology, and environmental geoscience that equip our students to be leaders in solving many of the most important issues facing our society. Our world-class alumni build successful careers around the world in science, engineering, industry, commerce, policy and government.
We enjoy a research and teaching environment with critical mass and global reach that interfaces with colleagues across the University of Southampton in Life and Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Physical Sciences, and the Social, Human, Medical and Mathematical Sciences, the Southampton Marine & Maritime Institute and the Boldrewood Innovation Campus.
We take pride in the diversity of research in our School spanning across marine biology and ecology, physical oceanography, palaeoceanography and paleoclimate, marine biogeochemistry, geology and geophysics and geochemistry. We lead the prestigious NERC INSPIRE Doctoral Training Programme (DTP) and are home to one of the largest graduate schools in Ocean and Earth Science in the world, with >130 PhD students. We are integral to both the interdisciplinary Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute and Institute for Life Sciences. We are home to the only Regius Chair in Ocean Sciences in the country. Based at the University’s Waterfront Campus at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton, we have a range of unique and world class facilities. We collaborate broadly both nationally and internationally, including our close collaborative relationships with the independent National Oceanography Centre.
We are seeking to make Faculty appointments in the area of Geoscience, to grow our research and enterprise activities, further enhance our research-led education, with a particular focus on supporting our growing Environmental Geoscience programme, and extend the international reach of our activities. As part of an ongoing series of appointments planned over five years, you will have an exciting opportunity to influence the Earth science agenda within a world leading school at the University of Southampton.
We seek applications from individuals with research interests across the geosciences, but particularly in the areas of: volcanology; mineral resources and economic geology with applications to the energy transition; planetary geology and hydrogeology. Applicants in these areas should be pursuing outstanding research questions and will have a growing international profile that adds a new dimension to the thriving research programs across the interdisciplinary School of Ocean and Earth Science (SOES). You will contribute to delivery and development of our growing Environmental Geoscience programme, as well as our long-standing programme in Geology. Applicants will also be expected to contribute to our student field courses operating both in the UK and overseas.
Strong applicants should demonstrate:
We welcome applications from all candidates with an interest in the roles, and those who are committed to helping us create an inclusive work environment. We encourage applications from candidates from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, people who identify as LGBTQ+ and people with disabilities.
Interviews will take place in person during March 2023. The deadline for all applications is 3rd February 2023.
What we can offer you
We are an ambitious, mutually supportive academic community and passionate about creating an environment where everyone can achieve their full potential in education, research and enterprise. As such, we hold a departmental Athena SWAN bronze award alongside the institutional silver award. We value diversity and equality and recognise that employees may wish to have working patterns that fit with their caring responsibilities or work-life balance. Due consideration will be given to applicants who have had career breaks for reasons including maternity, paternity or adoption leave, disability or illness. We offer a generous holiday allowance and additional University closure days, subsidised health and fitness facilities and access to the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS).
For further details about the post you are invited to contact the Head of School (HoS), Professor Mark Moore cmm1g06@soton.ac.uk 44 (0) 2380594801. Expressions of interest in subject areas outside of those specifically mentioned above can also be sent to the HoS using the same contact.
Application procedure: Please include details for up to three referees, your full CV, your publication list and a 500-word research plan.
You should submit your completed online application form at www.jobs.soton.ac.uk. The application deadline will be midnight on the closing date stated above.
We are seeking to make Faculty appointments in the area of Geoscience, to grow our research and enterprise activities, further enhance our research-led education, with a particular focus on supporting our growing Environmental Geoscience programme, and extend the international reach of our activities. As part of an ongoing series of appointments planned over five years, you will have the opportunity to join a growing number of new scientists in our School, driving changes in our research and education programmes. You will have an exciting opportunity to influence the Earth science agenda within a world leading school at the University of Southampton.
(Salary: £39,739 to £65,107)
You will use innovative computational approaches to pursue outstanding research questions at the interfaces among Earth, ocean, climate and life sciences. Using a data and/or computer science approach you will exploit the opportunities presented by vast data sets. For example datasets generated by increased deployment of autonomous systems featuring high-resolution sensor and imaging capability, or large equipment arrays. You might leverage those data to answer outstanding research questions spanning geospatial, climatic, geohazards, biological tracking or oceanographic fields. Your specialisms in data analytics might include the analysis of big data through Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, uncertainty quantification, and/or data assimilation and integration.
(Salary: £39,739 to £65,107)
You will have a growing international profile in an aspect of physical oceanography. The School is exceptionally well-equipped for innovative research that addresses major societal issues, including the role of ocean circulation on the global climate system, the influence of ocean-atmosphere coupling on climate variability and change, operational ocean forecasting, the interaction between physical and biogeochemical processes in shelf seas, and the impact of sea-level rise and flooding on the coast communities and ecosystems. We are especially interested in applicants working on research questions related to ice sheet modelling and polar ocean dynamics or ocean-atmosphere dynamics.
(Salary: £39,739 to £65,107)
You will have a growing international profile in marine palaeobiology and add to our thriving research programs at the interfaces between earth, ocean, climate and life sciences. We seek applications from individuals working across a range of fields that include the study of diversity through space and time; the biotic and abiotic impacts of major evolutionary and ecological events; the application of paleontological data and methods to conservation and environmental management; better links between living and fossil systems and the development of new palaeobiological methods to interrogate the marine sedimentary record.
(Salary: £39,739 to £50,296)
You will have a growing international profile in an aspect of marine biology. The capacity for organisms to respond and adapt to environmental and climatic change, and/or other human activities can have major implications for food security, coastal and marine protection, restoration and long-term management strategies. We are seeking an outstanding marine biologist, with interests in whole-animal biology and ecophysiology or related areas of research that speak to the challenges of marine conservation, management and food security. The School is exceptionally well-equipped to support this work, housing a multi-user aquarium and experimental facilities capable of tight environmental control and hyperbaric capability. The successful candidate will have an exciting opportunity to build a long-term programme that complements existing strengths in this area within the School of Ocean and Earth Science and the wider University.
Strong applicants should demonstrate:
We welcome applications from all candidates with an interest in the role, and those who are committed to helping us create an inclusive work environment. We encourage applications from candidates from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, people who identify as LGBTQ+ and people with disabilities.
Interviews will take place online in February. Applicants who are made an offer will be invited to campus for further discussion. The deadline for all applications is the 31st January 2022.
We are an ambitious, mutually supportive academic community and passionate about creating an environment where everyone can achieve their full potential in education, research and enterprise. As such, we hold a departmental Athena SWAN bronze award alongside the institutional silver award. We value diversity and equality and recognise that employees may wish to have working patterns that fit with their caring responsibilities or work-life balance. Due consideration will be given to applicants who have had career breaks for reasons including maternity, paternity or adoption leave, disability or illness. We offer a generous holiday allowance and additional University closure days, subsidised health and fitness facilities and access to the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS).
For further details about the post you are invited to contact the Head of School (HoS), Professor Mark Moore cmm1g06@soton.ac.uk 44 (0) 2380594801. Expressions of interest in subject areas outside of those specifically mentioned above can also be sent to the HoS using the same contact.
Application procedure: Please include details for up to three referees, your full CV, your publication list and a 500-word research plan.
You should submit your completed online application form at www.jobs.soton.ac.uk. The application deadline will be midnight on the closing date stated above.