Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ the role

is a leading provider of simulation and synthetic environment solutions for the defence, aerospace and research sectors. A core component of Antycip Simulators is the Merlin flight simulation modelling framework, which supports high-fidelity modelling of a wide range of fixed-wing, rotary wing and emerging eVTOL aircraft.

This project will develop a physics-based airframe model for Merlin simulator, enabling direct incorporation of elastic airframe effects and enhancing simulation capability for future aircraft concepts.

The work will be undertaken in collaboration with Dr Aykut Tamer, Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½, and Dr Murat Millidere, Merlin Simulation Engineer at ST Engineering Antycip.

The Associate will be responsible for developing and validating a physics-based elastic airframe modelling capability and demonstrating its integration within the Merlin flight simulator.  

Key activities will include:

• Requirements capture and modelling architecture development.
• Survey and evaluation of modelling approaches.
• Development of an airframe model capable of generating the Merlin influence matrix from physical parameters.
• Validation using analytical solutions, published software outputs and experimental data.
• Demonstration of the model within the Merlin simulation environment.
• Preparation of project reports and presentations to project stakeholders.

The post will offer the following benefits:

• Valuable experience and highly transferable skills.
• Mentoring from the company and academic team.
• Experience working directly with a technology-focused industrial partner.
• Work on a commercially focused aerospace innovation project.
• Gain experience of industrial flight simulation development.
• Collaborate with leading experts in aeroelasticity and aerospace systems.
• Develop knowledge transfer, project management and technical communication skills.
• Contribute directly to the development of innovative simulation technology with commercial impact.

This AKT project is funded by UKRI through Innovate UK. This programme has been designed to create short-term collaborations between a university and business to deliver a rapid and targeted intervention to accelerate the development of an innovation project, with potential for significant impact on the business. AKT projects are delivered by graduates who benefit from the opportunity to work on a strategically relevant project within industry, whilst receiving support and guidance from university academics. More information about the Accelerated Knowledge Transfer programme can be found at:

Further information

This is a fixed-term role for a period of 3 months, and the role must start no later than 13 November 2026.

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equity and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff. 

Find out more about our benefits and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ a great place to work as well as following us and .

Be Well at Ä¢¹½´«Ã½

We’re committed to creating a health-supporting working environment where everyone can thrive and be at their best. We offer a range of resources to enable you to do that from your first day here, including:

• Staff support groups and networks
• A network of Staff Wellbeing Champions
• A suite of tools, resources and frameworks that enable you to be at your best and thrive

Find out more about being at your best at Ä¢¹½´«Ã½.

Closing Date: 19 Oct 2026

Department: Education & Research

Salary: £31,861 to £38,448

Working within to embed knowledge through this innovative Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP), with academic support from the Department for Health at the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½, to develop advanced digital interventions that optimise human performance for Defence and other uniformed service personnel. 

This KTP combines HPO's cutting-edge software platform with the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s expertise in motivation, behaviour change, and digital health intervention design to develop adaptive, evidence-based digital tools that support sustained health, wellbeing and performance outcomes. 

You will play a central role in translating behavioural science into practical, scalable digital solutions by contributing to intervention design, user engagement strategies, data analysis, evaluation, and collaboration with HPO’s software and analytics teams. 

This KTP offers an intellectually stimulating and interdisciplinary opportunity for an Associate interested in applying behavioural science and digital innovation within high-performance operational environments.

Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ KTPs

As a KTP Associate you will be the project lead, managing your own workload to ensure outputs align with project expectations, including leading on meetings. You will also acquire new skills in strategic leadership that can help to super-charge your career.

Additional benefits of being a KTP Associate:

• All KTP Associates spend 10% of their time on Personal Development, making full use of a generous £2,000 annual personal development budget.
• Access to two 1-week residential training sessions at Ashorne Hill, aimed at developing project management skills.
• Opportunity to gain both industry management and academic experience with mentoring from the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ and at HPO.
• Potential to fast-track a career into business, with an opportunity to gain a permanent job following the KTP. 
• Access to a wealth of academic and industrial resources.
• Access to a Travel & Subsistence budget.
• Access to mentoring sessions through Innovate UK Business Connect.

Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ HPO 

is a UK-based software company focused on developing evidence-based, integrated, digital solutions to assist strategic organisations optimise performance of personnel.

Working at the intersection of human performance, behavioural science, and digital innovation, HPO collaborates closely with academic, military, and operational partners to develop scalable technologies with measurable real-world impact.

Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ you

The ideal candidate will have:

• A MSc or PhD in Health Psychology, Behavioural Science, Digital Health, Public Health, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related discipline. 
• Strong understanding of motivation, behaviour change, and digital intervention design and theory.
• Experience or interest in user engagement strategies, adaptive interventions, and digital health technologies.
• Experience analysing behavioural, health, or performance-related data using tools such as R or Python.
• An understanding of evaluation methods for digital or behaviour change interventions.
• Ability to communicate effectively across multidisciplinary teams, including researchers, software developers, analysts, and commercial stakeholders.
• An interest in applying behavioural science within Defence, high-performance, tactical, or operational settings.
• Ability to work across academic and commercial environments, translating behavioural science into practical, scalable digital solutions with real-world impact.

Desirable:

• Experience working with UX/UI principles or user-centred design approaches. 
• Experience with real-world implementation or evaluation of digital health or wellbeing interventions. 
• Understanding of experimentation, feedback loops, or engagement analytics within digital products.

Further information

As a KTP Associate you can enjoy the benefits of being an employee at the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ whilst working full-time at HPO Technologies. 

HPO holiday entitlement and working hours:
This is a full-time position based in London. Working hours are 9:00 to 17:30 Monday to Fridays. You will be entitled to 25 days paid holiday annually, in addition to UK public holidays. 

The role is fixed-term for a period of 36 months.

A BPSS Security Clearance check is required for this position.

For an informal discussion about this role please email partnerships@bath.ac.uk

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equity and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff. 

Be Well at Ä¢¹½´«Ã½

We’re committed to creating a health-supporting working environment where everyone can thrive and be at their best. We offer a range of resources to enable you to do that from your first day here, including:

• Staff support groups and networks
• A network of Staff Wellbeing Champions
• A suite of tools, resources and frameworks that enable you to be at your best and thrive

Find out more about being at your best at Ä¢¹½´«Ã½.

Closing Date: 03 Nov 2026

Department: Education & Research

Salary: £42,000 to £48,000 plus an additional £2,000 annual personal training and development budget

Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ the role

The project will establish an automated workflow for rapid production of novel small-molecule libraries, enabling Almac Discovery to accelerate early-stage drug discovery, reduce reliance on outsourced compound synthesis, and strengthen its capability to identify promising new medicines more quickly and cost-effectively.

Whilst working on this unique project as an AKT Associate, applying your academic skills to an industrially focused project, you will broaden your knowledge and expertise, and be supported by an Industrial and an academic supervisor. 

Working under the supervision of Dr Alex Cresswell, Reader in Organic Chemistry and Co-Lead of the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ Centre for Drug Discovery, and Dr Colin O'Dowd, Vice President of Medicinal Chemistry at Almac Discovery, you will play a key role in transferring innovative automated synthesis methodologies into an industrial drug discovery environment.

 As the AKT Associate, you will:

• Demonstrate and optimise automated synthetic chemistry workflows.
• Design and produce representative small-molecule screening libraries.
• Evaluate workflow robustness, reproducibility and operational efficiency.
• Work closely with medicinal chemistry, biology and analytical teams.
• Develop standard operating procedures and supporting documentation.
• Support the transfer of knowledge and capability into Almac Discovery's research teams.
• Contribute to future plans for technology expansion and commercial exploitation.

The post will offer the following benefits:

• Work at the interface of academic innovation and industrial drug discovery.
• Gain experience of technology transfer within a commercially focused research environment.
• Collaborate with world-leading experts in synthetic chemistry and drug discovery.
• Build valuable industrial and translational research experience within the life sciences sector.

We welcome applications from candidates who have: 

• Strong practical expertise in synthetic organic chemistry.
• Experience of reaction optimisation and analytical characterisation.
• The ability to design, execute and interpret complex experimental programmes independently.
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• The ability to work effectively across academic and industrial environments.

This AKT project is funded by UKRI through . This programme has been adesigned to create short-term collaborations between a university and business to deliver a rapid and targeted intervention to accelerate the development of an innovation project, with potential for significant impact on the business. AKT projects are delivered by graduates who benefit from the opportunity to work on a strategically relevant project within industry, whilst receiving support and guidance from university academics. More information about the Accelerated Knowledge Transfer programme can be found at:

Further information

Interviews will be held on Friday 23 October.

This is a fixed-term role for a period of 3 months, and the role must start no later than 13 November 2026.

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equity and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

Find out more about our benefits and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ a great place to work as well as following us and .

Be Well at Ä¢¹½´«Ã½

We’re committed to creating a health-supporting working environment where everyone can thrive and be at their best. We offer a range of resources to enable you to do that from your first day here, including:

• Staff support groups and networks
• A network of Staff Wellbeing Champions
• A suite of tools, resources and frameworks that enable you to be at your best and thrive

Find out more about being at your best at Ä¢¹½´«Ã½.

Closing Date: 19 Oct 2026

Department: Education & Research

Salary: £43,482

Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ the role

Pan--Tilt--Zoom (PTZ) cameras capture detailed imagery of selected contacts, but this reduces awareness of the wider environment.  This innovative project will assess the feasibility of a reinforcement learning system that decides where the camera should point and when to zoom. It will balance searching for new contacts, tracking known contacts and maintaining situational awareness under uncertainty.

The capability will extend Synoptix's Synx-Lookout product beyond detection and tracking by adding autonomous attention allocation, contact prioritisation and camera control while continuing to run on edge compute. Development will use Synoptix's synthetic environment capability, followed by testing with PTZ cameras and edge hardware.

Whilst working on this unique project as an AKT Associate, applying your academic skills to an industrially focused project, you will broaden your knowledge and expertise, and be supported by both industrial and academic supervisors. 

The project will be supervised by Professor Özgür Simsek (Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Director of Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s Reinforcement Learning Laboratory, Director of Ä¢¹½´«Ã½’s Centre for Artificial Intelligence) and by George Leete (Senior AI Engineer at Synoptix Limited).

Synoptix Ltd

Synoptix is an award-winning engineering consultancy delivering advanced solutions across defence, aerospace, healthcare, energy and cyber security sectors. The company develops innovative AI-powered products including Synx-Lookout, an edge-computing maritime awareness platform that uses computer vision and autonomy technologies.

We welcome applications from candidates who have: 

• A BSc, MComp, MSc, or PhD degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science or a closely related discipline
• Practical experience with modern reinforcement learning algorithms using function approximation.
• Ability to manage workload independently and effectively.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Technical report writing experience.
• Intellectual curiosity and enthusiasm for research-driven innovation.
• Resilience and problem-solving mindset.

The Associate will investigate how reinforcement learning can be used to control PTZ cameras operating in complex maritime environments

The post will offer the following benefits:

• Valuable experience and highly transferable skills.
• Mentoring from the company and academic team.
• Access to University resources to complete the project.
• Experience working directly with a technology-focused industrial partner.

This AKT project is funded by UKRI through . This programme has been designed to create short-term collaborations between a university and business to deliver a rapid and targeted intervention to accelerate the development of an innovation project, with potential for significant impact on the business. AKT projects are delivered by graduates who benefit from the opportunity to work on a strategically relevant project within industry, whilst receiving support and guidance from university academics. More information about the Accelerated Knowledge Transfer programme can be found at:

Further information

This is a fixed-term role for a period of 3 months, to start no later than 13 November 2026.

In addition to your application, please submit an up-to-date full CV, academic transcripts, at least one writing sample, and at last one presentation sample (e.g. slides or a link to a recording).

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equity and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff. 

Find out more about our benefits and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ a great place to work as well as following us and .

Be Well at Ä¢¹½´«Ã½

We’re committed to creating a health-supporting working environment where everyone can thrive and be at their best. We offer a range of resources to enable you to do that from your first day here, including:

• Staff support groups and networks
• A network of Staff Wellbeing Champions
• A suite of tools, resources and frameworks that enable you to be at your best and thrive

Find out more about being at your best at Ä¢¹½´«Ã½.

Closing Date: 18 Oct 2026

Department: Education & Research

Salary: £38,784 to £46,049