Ocean Career: University of Gloucestershire Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Ocean Career: University of Gloucestershire Postdoctoral Research Assistant

• 18 March 2026

The University of Gloucestershire is seeking a postdoctoral research assistant who will focus on analyses of existing datasets on Manx Shearwaters and European Storm Petrels to obtain improved estimates of demographic parameters across these species' north-east Atlantic breeding range.

Seabird monitoring datasets are often underutilized due to the complex and evolving analytical approaches needed for robust estimation of demographic rates and the analysis of population dynamics. By focusing on refinements of two key demographic rates in seabird ecology-breeding adult survival and juvenile survival, the latter being especially poorly understood-this project will yield important improvements to Population Viability Analyses of seabirds in the context of Offshore Wind Development.

This project is supervised by Dr. Matt Wood (University of Gloucestershire) and Dr. Cat Horswill (Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge), part of the wider Procellariform Behavior and Demography (ProcBe) project with the University of Oxford, the RSPB, and JNCC, funded by The Offshore Wind Evidence and Change program (OWEC).