Research Assistant Full-time NEW

Research Assistant

Reporting to Prof. Rob Salguero-Gómez, the Research Assistant will support the NERC Pushing the Frontiers project through digitization, curation and quantitative analysis of phenocam and UAV data collected at the Wytham Woods DRAGNet grassland experiment. You will organize imagery and associated metadata, develop reproducible workflows to extract ecologically meaningful measures, analyze seasonal vegetation dynamics and responses to disturbance, and contribute to figures, interpretation and the writing of a peer-reviewed research paper. Occasional fieldwork, including vegetation observations and ground-truthing, may be required at Wytham Woods during summer 2027.

You will hold a MSc degree in ecology, biology, environmental science, geography, data science or a related discipline and equivalent relevant experience. You will have experience of handling, organizing and quality-assuring research datasets, with attention to metadata and reproducibility and competence in quantitative data analysis and data visualization using R (or comparable programming tools, with willingness to use R). Understanding of ecological research methods and ability to interpret data in an ecological context is essential. You will develop and document reproducible workflows for image processing, data extraction and integration across observation dates.

This post is part time (10 hours per week / 27% FTE) and available from 15 January 2027 to 30 September 2027. The closing date for applications is 12.00 noon on Friday 27 November 2026, interviews are likely to be scheduled for early December. Applications for this vacancy are to be made online via our e-recruitment system, and you will be required to upload a supporting statement and CV as part of your online application.