Current opportunities
Current opportunities to join an advisory committee, panel, forum or network.
STFC advisory body and peer review panel vacancies 2025
- Closing date
- 18 May 2025
- Length of term
- Three years, unless otherwise stated
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is inviting applications to over 90 board and panel vacancies across the council’s remit.
The STFC advisory bodies and peer review panels provide advice and guidance to aid our strategic direction and support our decision-making processes.
See the individual panel vacancy pages for more details:
- Advisory Panel for Public Engagement
- Astronomy Grants Panel
- CERN Fellowships Panel
- Commercialisation Scheme Panel
- DiRAC Resource Allocation Committee: Particle Physics and Nuclear Theory Sub-Panel
- Education Training and Careers Committee
- Ernest Rutherford Fellowship Panel
- Innovation and Business Board
- Leadership Fellow in Public Engagement Funding Panel
- Nuclear Physics Advisory Panel
- Nuclear Physics Cross Community Committee
- Nuclear Physics Grants Panel
- Nucleus Public Engagement Funding Panel
- Particle Astrophysics Advisory Panel
- Particle Physics Advisory Panel
- Projects Peer Review Panel
- Science Board (Facilities and Laboratories)
- Science Board (PPAN)
Quantum Technologies Early Career Forum: member vacancies
- Closing date
- 27 June 2025, 11:59pm UK time
- Number of positions
- 15 to 20
- Length of term
- Three years
- Time commitment
- Four to five days each year (including the quarterly forum meetings)
- Remuneration
- Dinner, travel and subsistence fees will not be paid. This applies to both in-person and virtual meetings
- Panel meeting
- August 2025
- Outcomes communicated
- August 2025
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is recruiting 15 to 20 early career researchers to join its Quantum Technologies Early Career Forum.
The forum will act as an informal advisory stream to EPSRC.
You will be an advocate for EPSRC within the quantum technologies community, providing a broad perspective on the community’s needs and views.
You will provide advice and perspective across the breadth of the quantum technologies theme remit.
You will actively shape the forum’s agenda and activities.
EPSRC will not cover travel and subsistence costs associated with attending the forum.
Find out more: Quantum Technologies Early Career Forum: member vacancies
UKRI Talent Peer Review College: member vacancies
- Closing date
- Open ended
- Length of term
- Ongoing
- Time commitment
- Up to eight reviews per year
- Outcomes communicated
- Periodically
The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Talent Peer Review College (PRC) will support the Future Leaders Fellowships, Innovation Scholars and future UKRI collective talent initiatives.
You will carry out PRC training and undertake reviews, providing you with in-depth knowledge of UKRI’s peer review processes and principles. This will help you to further increase your knowledge of reviewing funding applications and proposal writing.
We welcome applications from those with both academic and non-academic backgrounds. We also welcome applications based internationally, as well as the specific areas outlined in this advert.
Find out more: UKRI Talent Peer Review College: member vacancies
MRC expert reviewer selector vacancies
- Closing date
- Open-ended
- Number of positions
- Multiple
- Length of term
- Ongoing
- Time commitment
- Varies based on your availability and expertise
- Remuneration
- £110 for a standard application
£145 for a more complex application
- Outcomes communicated
- Every four to six months
We are looking for people who have experience of research and interests relevant to health research funding to become Medical Research Council (MRC) expert reviewer selectors.
MRC expert reviewer selectors are responsible for identifying the most relevant experts that could review applications for funding submitted through MRC funding opportunities.
This is a flexible role and you can choose which MRC funding opportunities you work on and how many applications you are sent at any time. Expert reviewer selectors usually work with us remotely.
Applications from individuals currently on a career break or parental leave are welcome.
You should not apply to be an MRC expert reviewer selector if you are a current UKRI employee or an active researcher.
Find out more: MRC expert reviewer selector vacancies
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Last updated: 21 May 2025