Opportunities

Any current or upcoming funded opportunities will be listed here, as well funded positions with collaborators.

If you have access to your own sources of PhD or postdoc funding, or think we may be able to support independent fellowship applications then please get in touch. I am also very happy to discuss project possibilities – particularly using our guppy or shrimp systems in the fishlab – with any students thinking about an MSc by research at Exeter.

We aim to be a supportive, inclusive and collaborative research group that welcomes everyone.

Postdoc and technician/RA roles – NERC grant funded positions (both 3yrs)

Parallel and divergent evolution of boldness in guppies

This project will be based in my group in CEC and is a collaboration with Erik Postma and Bonnie Fraser. It will be an interdisciplinary project looking at the evolutionary divergence of behaviours among populations that combines approaches from behavioural ecology, comparative biology, quantitative genetics, and population genomics. We will hire a technician/graduate research assistant to lead behavioural data collection in the fish lab (starting May 2024), and a postdoc to lead the genetic and genomic analyses (starting up to 6 months later). Feel free to get in touch with any informal enquiries.

RA position – * applications now open for the technician role* You need to apply through the UoE application portal here or (probably easier) click on the ‘apply link’ from the position advert at https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGC269/research-technician Closing date is March 21st and we plan to interview early April.

Postdoc position – coming soon. Feel free to get in touch with any informal enquiries.