Job: Junior Research Fellowships: Music and Pure Mathematics/Mathematical Statistics (Queen's College Cambridge) Deadline: 26.09.2025.
The College intends to appoint a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) from 1 October 2026 in each of the following subject areas: Music and Pure Mathematics/Mathematical Statistics.
Junior Research Fellowships offer early-career academics of exceptional intellectual calibre the opportunity to pursue research for up to three years at Queens’ College, Cambridge. The College is a particularly attractive environment for research. The academic expertise sustained by the fellowship and the postgraduate community is especially diverse, and the College library is an important international resource for scholarship.
These posts are intended to be early-career appointments open to graduates who are well advanced in their doctoral research or those who have recently completed it, and they may be stipendiary or non-stipendiary. JRFs will receive mentoring within the College. We will make all reasonable efforts to help JRFs to receive professional and academic mentoring within the appropriate department or faculty, or other affiliated institution of the University of Cambridge.
JRFs are members of the Senior Combination Room and they are expected to play an active part in the community of the College. They are welcome to undertake teaching by arrangement with the Senior Tutor.
The Fellowship is stipendiary if the appointee is to engage in full-time research. Annual salary starts at £33,482 for a postdoctoral appointment (or £28,380.36 for a pre-doctoral appointment), together with benefits worth over £8,073.72 p.a. Candidates who have recently taken up, or are about to take up, a salaried postdoctoral research position within the University of Cambridge are eligible and welcome to apply for a non-stipendiary Junior Research Fellowship. Successful candidates will be encouraged to take an active part in the academic life of the relevant department of the University of Cambridge.
Further particulars concerning the posts are available to download within this vacancy.
Applications Procedure
Applications are to be submitted electronically via our online application system:
https://app.casc.cam.ac.uk/fas_live/qjrf25/
Completed applications must be submitted via the online system no later than 1200 on 26 September 2025. Applicants are entirely responsible for ensuring the completeness of their applications. Neither incomplete nor late applications will be considered.
Interviews
Interviews will be held in late November 2025.
Contact
If you, your research supervisor or your referees have any queries about the online application procedure or are unable to use the online application form, please contact Mrs Jessica Spicer by e-mail (jrf[at]queens[dot]cam[dot]ac[dot]uk) or telephone (01223 335531 or +44 1223 335531) for further advice.