The Lovell lab is looking to recruit a PDRA on a 12-month contract. 

Project Background: Targeted radionuclide therapy (TRT) is an emerging and highly promising strategy for treating a range of cancers. By using targeting vectors conjugated to radionuclides, TRT delivers cytotoxic radiation directly to tumour cells while minimising damage to surrounding healthy tissues.

This project aims to identify selective peptide binders for proteins, cells, or tissues using state-of-the-art peptide display technologies. These binders will serve as initial targeting vectors in hit-to-lead optimisation programmes to develop novel radiomedicines. The work will integrate:

Phage or mRNA display

Automated solid-phase peptide synthesis

Direct-to-biology workflows

Chemical proteomics

Structural biology

Relevant References

Nat. Biotechnol. 2021, 4, 490

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 8911

J. Nucl. Med. 2025, 66, 1703

Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ you

• PhD in Chemistry, Chemical Biology, or a closely related discipline
• Demonstrated expertise with display technologies (e.g., phage display, mRNA display, DELs)
• Hands-on experience with solid-phase peptide synthesis
• Proficiency in HPLC, LC-MS, or LC-MS/MS method development
• Active interest in peptide drug discovery and cancer research

Additional expectations:

• Strong organisational, communication, and teamwork skills
• Ability to work independently and solve problems proactively
• Willingness to supervise and train junior lab members
• Some laboratory management responsibilities will be included

Further information

A lower grade offer may be made (Grade 6) with comparable reduction in responsibilities and amendment in job title to Research Assistant, if a suitable applicant cannot be found to fill the Grade 7 position. Applicants will need to be within six months of their course completion date and will be promoted to Research Associate once their PhD has been awarded.

For questions about the position, please contact Dr Scott Lovell at sdl35@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. 

What we can offer you 

We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ gym
• Staff benefits include discounted postgraduate tuition and language courses, alongside a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities such as apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning, and more
• Local discounts, including free entry to the Holburne Museum in Ä¢¹½´«Ã½
• A family-friendly workplace 
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses
• Employee assistance services through Health Assured, including access to the Wisdom app

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: 20 Oct 2026

Department: Education & Research

Salary: £38,784 to £46,049

The (CWBE) is a £13m interdisciplinary research centre, established in 2024 with funding from Research England’s Expanding Excellence in England (E3) scheme, together with contributions from the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ and partners. 

We are working to transform public and environmental health management, establishing the first Urban Living Lab facility; a state-of-the-art digital water sensing platform, training base and ideas hub. Our ambition is to provide a practical roadmap for a UK early-warning system, co-produced with regional and national stakeholders to serve as a sentinel and multigenerational testing site for research and innovation. This platform will enable testing of public health and environmental interventions focused on increasing community resilience to disease, pollution and climate change impacts. 

We are looking to recruit a Prize Fellow:

• to conduct high quality research as an independent researcher within the umbrella of the Centre, including securing funding via research grants and/or fellowship applications and building a research group appropriate to the Centre and discipline
• to develop international research links
• to contribute to advanced teaching and supervision, training and research of graduate students
• to promote research in the discipline, including public engagement.

Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ you

We particularly welcome applications from researchers whose interests align with CWBE's research strengths in antimicrobial resistance, pathogen surveillance, wastewater-based epidemiology, and the environmental and public health impacts of pharmaceuticals and other bioactive compounds. 

The successful candidate will establish an independent research programme within CWBE's interdisciplinary environment.

Further information 

For an informal discussion regarding the role please contact Edward Feil at bssef@bath.ac.uk. This role is a full-time fixed term position (36.5 hours per week for 24 months). Subject to satisfactory progress at the end of the fixed term, the position will transfer to a Lectureship.

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. 

What we can offer you 

We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ gym
• Staff benefits include discounted postgraduate tuition and language courses, alongside a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities such as apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning, and more
• Local discounts, including free entry to the Holburne Museum in Ä¢¹½´«Ã½
• A family-friendly workplace 
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses
• Employee assistance services through Health Assured, including access to the Wisdom app

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: 09 Nov 2026

Department: Education & Research

Salary: £48,337 to £57,666

The highly successful Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ MPharm is now being delivered on site in new purpose-built facilities at the University of Plymouth campus. In joining this unique collaborative approach to teaching pharmacy, you would be part of a growing team of staff as we continue to roll out the MPharm programme which started in September 2024. Staff teach across both the MPharm with a Preparatory year and the 4 year direct entry MPharm.

Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ the role:

We are recruiting a part-time Lecturer post in Experiential Learning (teaching-focussed) to be part of the Plymouth-based MPharm teaching team. You will provide high quality teaching and assessment on this new MPharm degree course, specifically supporting the delivery of practice based learning. You will be an excellent teacher and have a collegiate approach to working with academic and professional services colleagues. You will be joining a small but dynamic team based in Plymouth and will be expected to collaborate with colleagues at the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½. 

The University are willing to show flexibility in working practices and so applications from suitably qualified candidates seeking a role which offers hybrid working, full or part time working, job sharing and other forms of flexible employment are welcome. Please note, this role is based in Plymouth, although occasional travel to Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ will be required. 

Find out more about joining the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ MPharm at the University of Plymouth. 

Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ you

• A track record of delivering high quality teaching, learning and assessment, ideally with experience of supporting practice based learning
• Ability to support individual learners with the provision of excellent pastoral care
• A passion for this exciting and innovative project and producing the pharmacists of the future
• Ability and willingness to contribute to the day-to-day running of the department.

Additional information:

This post is offered up to 0.6 FTE. We will appoint at the appropriate spine point in grade 8 depending on experience. Applications from suitably qualified candidates seeking a role which offers part time working, job-sharing and other forms of flexible employment are welcome.

For informal enquiries about the role, please contact Professor Lyn Hanning, Head of Pharmacy (Plymouth) L.Hanning@bath.ac.uk or +44 (0)1225 383780.

Find out more about joining the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ MPharm at the University of Plymouth. 

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. 

What we can offer you 

We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ gym
• Staff benefits include discounted postgraduate tuition and language courses, alongside a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities such as apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning, and more
• Local discounts, including free entry to the Holburne Museum in Ä¢¹½´«Ã½
• A family-friendly workplace 
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses
• Employee assistance services through Health Assured, including access to the Wisdom app

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: 02 Nov 2026

Department: Education & Research

Salary: £48,337 to £57,666 Pro Rata Per Annum