The Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations () is seeking an experienced and motivated Impact and Communications Associate to join us on a full time, fixed term basis to help shape climate policy and practice through world-leading social science research.

This is an exciting opportunity to work at the intersection of research, policy, communications, and public engagement, ensuring that evidence and insights reach the people who can drive meaningful action on climate change.

About the Role

As the Impact and Communications Associate, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring CAST's world-leading climate research influences policy, practice and public debate. Working with colleagues, researchers, policymakers and external partners, you will:

• Lead and ensure delivery of CAST's communications, engagement and impact activities, ensuring research findings reach and influence key decision-makers.
• Build strong relationships with policymakers, businesses, charities and other stakeholders to maximise the real-world impact of CAST's research.
• Develop high-quality communication and impact outputs and translate complex evidence into accessible and actionable insights.
• Provide strategic oversight of the Centre's communications and engagement work, including line management of the Communications & Engagement Officer.

CAST is committed to continuous improvement and innovation, providing plenty of opportunities to further shape and evolve this role (and your skills) over time.  

About You

We are looking for someone who combines strategic thinking with excellent communication skills and a passion for climate action.

You will be comfortable working independently, building trusted relationships, and managing multiple strands of activity. You enjoy making sense of complex information and communicating insights in a clear and practical way. You will also work, and sometimes lead, effectively across teams to achieve common goals and outcomes.

Key requirements

• Undergraduate degree in a social science discipline or equivalent experience.
• Awareness of the latest developments in the field of climate change policy and practice.
• Experience communicating complex information to diverse audiences in a variety of formats.
• Experience planning and delivering successful communications or marketing campaigns and/or events.
• Experience developing relationships with and delivering advocacy to decision-makers.
• Experience responding to policy engagement opportunities, such as consultations and inquiries.

Key skills

• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to translate research findings into engaging and accessible content and messaging, including effective dissemination.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to manage competing priorities.

Additional information

This is a full-time, fixed-term position until March 2030. 

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Jennifer Wilkinson (jlw216@bath.ac.uk) or Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh on (lw2253@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 Bath 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 Bath
• 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 University of Bath a great place to work as well as following us and .

Be Well at Bath

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 Bath.

 

Closing Date: 29 Sep 2026

Department: Management, Specialist and Administration

Salary: £38,784 to £46,049

About the role

The programme of work is led by Dr Maria Loades, Professor, Clinical Psychologist and NIHR Advanced Fellowship holder, who will work closely with you. 

This post is a great opportunity to work in applied clinical research with a public health focus. 

This role includes working on a fully powered hybrid effectiveness and implementation RCT of single session interventions for young people aged 13-18 in the UK. 

It also includes analysing and writing up data from pilot studies, supporting implementation projects in early help provider services, and contributing to the wider work of the spotLight on Adolescent and Young Adult Mood Problems group (LAMP). 

Patient and public involvement (PPI), engagement and science communication are key to the programme of work. 

The successful candidate will have:

• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks, prioritise effectively, and work to agreed deadlines
• Experience of searching, reviewing and synthesising relevant academic literature. Experience of contributing to systematic reviews would be desirable. 
• Experience of collecting, managing, and analysing qualitative and quantitative data, with familiarity with relevant software such as R and NVivo desirable.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with a range of stakeholders, including young people, parents, clinicians, researchers, and other professionals. 
• The ability to support research dissemination activities, including using social media platforms such as Instagram and TikTok to share study information, support recruitment, and communicate findings. 
• Experience of contributing to academic writing, including preparation of manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals, would be desirable.
• The ability to present research findings through conferences, reports, blogs, and other accessible formats for different audiences. 

Additional information

This role is offered part time (2 days per week), on fixed term basis with an expected duration of 22 months (or 2.5 days a week for 18 months, depending on the preference of the successful candidate).

More information about the programme of work can be found at /projects/spotlight-on-adolescent-and-young-adult-mood-problems-lamp-research-programme/ and via our coproduced website. 

For informal discussions about the role please contact Dr Maria Loades on mel26@bath.ac.uk. Note that some remote working could be considered, and will be discussed with the successful candidate. 

As a member of 69色情片 Staff at the University of Bath, you will be encouraged to take up a minimum of 10 days professional development pro rata per year.

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 Bath 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 Bath
• 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 University of Bath a great place to work as well as following us and .

Be Well at Bath

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 Bath.

 

Closing Date: 29 Sep 2026

Department: Education & 69色情片

Salary: £31,236 to £37,694

About the role

This role will include developing the teaching material, delivery of lectures, seminars and tutorials.

Alongside the supervision, assessment and marking of coursework and research dissertations, you will provide advice and support to students

Our ideal candidate

• be committed to and have experience of delivering high quality teaching
• show evidence of inclusive teaching practice and student engagement
• have experience supporting students as an Academic Advisor/Personal Tutor or similar
• Be confident to teach Qualitative Methods.
  
  

 Additional information

This a maternity cover role, offered on a fixed term, part time basis (0.8FTE), ending in October 2027. 

For any queries, please contact Deputy Head of Department (Education and Student Experience) Prof Richard Joiner (pssrj@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 Bath 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 Bath
• 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 University of Bath a great place to work as well as following us and .

Be Well at Bath

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 Bath.

 

Closing Date: 24 Sep 2026

Department: Education & 69色情片

Salary: £47,389 to £56,535