CIRCADIAN MENTAL HEALTH NETWORK
Opportunities
Throughout our network, we have many opportunities for all interests and career stages. These include job posts, training and other opportunities.
You can find more information about these opportunities below.
Funding Opportunity for Early Career Researchers
We would like to extend an open invitation to Early Career Researchers (ECRs) at any ECR career stage to apply for a range of Circadian Mental Health Network funding opportunities: networking activities, conference attendance, public engagement activities, discipline-hopping exchange visits, cross-training activities (up to £5,000).
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Please attach a 2-page CV when submitting your funding application.
Job posts
This PhD project aims to investigate the role of sleep and circadian rhythm disruption in the comorbidity of depression with cardiometabolic diseases (CMD) such as hypertension and diabetes. The study will analyse data from the UK Biobank cohort, which includes over 500,000 individuals, and actigraphy-derived sleep measures from around 90,000 individuals.
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Deadline: Mon 15th January 2024
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Behavioural Data Scientist
Maynooth University
Seeking an enthusiastic and ambitious behavioural data scientist to join our research team to manage studies to develop novel methods for assessment of circadian rhythms. The successful candidate will work with us on cutting-edge research projects that focus on understanding how changes in the variability of circadian rhythms relate to human health and disease. This position will work within AMBIENT-BD, five-year project is led by the University of Edinburgh with co-investigators at Maynooth University, Ireland and the Technical University of Munich, Germany.
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Deadline: Sun 10th December
SWBio DTP PhD Studentship
Bristol University
The overall aim of this collaborative studentship is to test the hypothesis that ageing changes the potassium channel mediated membrane properties of clock neurons. Some aspects of this project include, developing a model of day/night differences in clock neuron excitability and test if the proposed potassium channel changes switch the neurons between day/night; and developing a model of the effect of ageing on clock neuron excitability.
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Deadline: Mon 4th December
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MSc Research
Bristol University
This is a self-funded MScR in the Hodge lab in Bristol University. The project will be focused on determining the genetic and circadian basis of bipolar disorder using Drosophila.
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Applications open year round
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Research Assistant
Maynooth University
Seeking an enthusiastic and ambitious research assistant to join the research team to help in the development of novel methods for assessment of circadian rhythms. The project requires a research assistant that has excellent communication skills and that enjoys meeting and working with the participants of the research studies. The successful applicant will work within AMBIENT-BD, five-year project is led by the University of Edinburgh with co-investigators at Maynooth University, Ireland and the Technical University of Munich, Germany.
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Find out more here
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Post-doctoral Researcher
University of Edinburgh
The postdoctoral researcher will work with Dr Jasna Martinovic on a vision science workstream of a large-scale, multi-site Wellcome Trust HELIOS-BD project “Lithium's mechanism in bipolar disorder: investigating the light hypersensitivity hypothesis”. Which aims to ascertain the precise mechanism of lithium action in bipolar disorder, and will evaluate the hypothesis that it may work by stabilizing aberrant circadian rhythms of mood, cognition and rest/activity, possibly via an action at the level of the retina.
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Find out more here
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