Research platform offers new role

10 Sep 2026

Academic colleagues invited to apply for the role of Healthier Futures Curriculum and Skills Development Theme Lead EOI.

Healthier Futures, one of our University’s four Research platforms, has an exciting opportunity for an academic to support its leadership team in enhancing curriculum and skills development.  

Research platforms have been our University’s strategic mechanism for driving challenge-led, interdisciplinary research across our full breadth of disciplines. They embody our ‘One University’ ethos – convening diverse teams from all three Faculties and enabling them to imagine, create and deliver solutions to society’s most urgent challenges.

As part of our Manchester 2035 vision, the platforms will now be working to apply these interdisciplinary approaches to inform teaching, learning and skills, and to make opportunities available to students and learners to engage with real world challenges.

In this three-year role, you will be a member of the Healthier Futures Management Board, with a 0.2FTE workload allocation. The team are keen to hear from candidates who might be interested in this as a 0.2FTE role, or as a job share, which would be 0.1FTE, with a colleague from a different faculty.

For full details, visit: Healthier Futures Curriculum and Skills Development Theme Lead EOI