{"id":861,"date":"2026-06-26T15:04:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/?p=861"},"modified":"2026-06-26T15:04:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:04:57","slug":"four-exciting-postdoc-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/2026\/06\/26\/four-exciting-postdoc-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Exciting Postdoc Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce four exciting opportunities to join our growing interdisciplinary team.<\/p>\n<p>We are seeking talented and ambitious early career researchers and project professionals who are passionate about shaping the governance and societal futures of emerging science and technology.\u00a0We particularly welcome applications from candidates with expertise in life science governance, science communication, bioethics, sociology of science, science and technology studies (STS), public policy, political science, anthropology, or related disciplines.<\/p>\n<p><b>Current Opportunities<\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udccd <b>Research Associate\/Fellow (Social Study of Synthetic Genomics)<\/b> <i>(Two Positions)<\/i><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd17 <a href=\"https:\/\/jobs.kent.ac.uk\/vacancy.aspx?ref=SSS-036-26\">https:\/\/jobs.kent.ac.uk\/vacancy.aspx?ref=SSS-036-26<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcb7 \u00a339,906\u2013\u00a354,893 per annum<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcc5 Closing date: 23:59 BST, Sunday 19 July 2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>\ud83d\udccd Research Associate (Sociology of Emerging Science)<\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd17 <a href=\"https:\/\/jobs.kent.ac.uk\/vacancy.aspx?ref=SSS-037-26\">https:\/\/jobs.kent.ac.uk\/vacancy.aspx?ref=SSS-037-26<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcb7 \u00a339,906\u2013\u00a344,746 per annum<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcc5 Closing date: 23:59 BST, Thursday 23 July 2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udccd <b>Research Fellow in Public Engagement and Science Governance<\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd17 <a href=\"https:\/\/jobs.kent.ac.uk\/Vacancy.aspx?ref=SSS-038-26\">https:\/\/jobs.kent.ac.uk\/Vacancy.aspx?ref=SSS-038-26<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcb7 Salary: \u00a348,822\u2013\u00a354,893 per annum<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcc5 Closing date: 23:59 BST, Tuesday 28 July 2026<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f Interview date: Tuesday 11 August 2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you have any informal enquiries about the research posts, please contact <b>Professor Joy Y. Zhang<\/b> at <a href=\"mailto:yz203@kent.ac.uk\"><b>yz203@kent.ac.uk<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce four exciting opportunities to join our growing interdisciplinary team. We are seeking talented and ambitious early career researchers and project &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/2026\/06\/26\/four-exciting-postdoc-opportunities\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78017,"featured_media":862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78017"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":863,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions\/863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/global-science-and-epistemic-justice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}