A full -time post is available above on November 1, 2025 in the fixed term until October 31, 2028.

Pamphlet
The teaching staff wants to employ a post -PhD researcher to support Professor Darren Croft’s work. This post, funded by NRC, in cooperation with Dr. Samuel Ellis from the University of Exeter, Professor Daniel Franks at York University, and Dr. Michael Weiss at the Pisces Research Center (USA) available from November 1, 2025 for a period of three years. The successful applicant will join a cooperative team that explores how access to social dynamic information in the dead whales. This project benefits from a group of unique 50 -year -old data on the extinction -bound numbers of extinction to investigate how individuals amend their social relationships in response to changing prey and partner loss and distributing environmental knowledge within social groups.

PDRA will play a major role in presenting the project, and working closely with the Pisces Research Center (USA) and other partners. The responsibilities will include coordination and conducting advanced behaviors of behavioral and environmental data in the long run, combining various data groups, and testing predictions about drivers and social and environmental dynamics. PostHolder will also contribute to project meetings, support cooperation, and prepare high -impact manuscripts for publication.

This position provides an exciting opportunity to work in the interface of the behavioral environment, memorization and data science, and to address basic questions about social behavior while generating visions directly related to preserving endangered species.

About you
The successful applicant will have a PhD (or qualification/equivalent experience) in behavioral environment, animal behavior, preservation biology, or relevant discipline. They will have specialized knowledge and quantitative skills to design and implement advanced research programs, analyze complex data collections, and develop innovative methodologies.

The successful applicant will be able to work independently and cooperatively as part of a multi -institutional team, supervise the work of others, and take the responsibilities of leadership when necessary. They will have excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly provide research results in oral, writing and electronic formats.

The successful applicant will be enthusiastic and subject to adaptation and adherence to the production of high -quality research that advances in our understanding of the social behavior of the animal and contributes directly to preserving the species threatened with extinction.

Please make sure to read the job description and the specifications of the person (available on the university’s website, which was accessed by the “application” button) to get full details of this role.

What we can offer you

• Freedom (and support) to follow your intellectual interests and work creatively through specializations to produce international exciting research.
• Support teams that understand the goals of research and education on a large scale and partnership with our academics accordingly.
• The Directorate of Innovation, Impact and Works that work closely with our academics provide specialized support for external participation and development.
• The EXER Academic Initiative that supports high -performance academics to achieve their capabilities and develop their career.
• Many of the benefits of employees, including the leading benefits in the sector Motherhood, adoption, and parents ’shared vacations (Up to 26 weeks full salaries), paternity leave (up to 6 weeks full wage), and fertility treatment policy.
• A beautiful university campus located in the amazing heart of Devon.

More information
For more information, please call Darren Croft, Animal Conduct, Email dpcroft@exter.ac.uk.

A full -time post is available above on November 1, 2025 in the fixed term until October 31, 2028.

Pamphlet
The teaching staff wants to employ a post -PhD researcher to support Professor Darren Croft’s work. This post, funded by NRC, in cooperation with Dr. Samuel Ellis from the University of Exeter, Professor Daniel Franks at York University, and Dr. Michael Weiss at the Pisces Research Center (USA) available from November 1, 2025 for a period of three years. The successful applicant will join a cooperative team that explores how access to social dynamic information in the dead whales. This project benefits from a group of unique 50 -year -old data on the extinction -bound numbers of extinction to investigate how individuals amend their social relationships in response to changing prey and partner loss and distributing environmental knowledge within social groups.

PDRA will play a major role in presenting the project, and working closely with the Pisces Research Center (USA) and other partners. The responsibilities will include coordination and conducting advanced behaviors of behavioral and environmental data in the long run, combining various data groups, and testing predictions about drivers and social and environmental dynamics. PostHolder will also contribute to project meetings, support cooperation, and prepare high -impact manuscripts for publication.

This position provides an exciting opportunity to work in the interface of the behavioral environment, memorization and data science, and to address basic questions about social behavior while generating visions directly related to preserving endangered species.

About you
The successful applicant will have a PhD (or qualification/equivalent experience) in behavioral environment, animal behavior, preservation biology, or relevant discipline. They will have specialized knowledge and quantitative skills to design and implement advanced research programs, analyze complex data collections, and develop innovative methodologies.

The successful applicant will be able to work independently and cooperatively as part of a multi -institutional team, supervise the work of others, and take the responsibilities of leadership when necessary. They will have excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly provide research results in oral, writing and electronic formats.

The successful applicant will be enthusiastic and subject to adaptation and adherence to the production of high -quality research that advances in our understanding of the social behavior of the animal and contributes directly to preserving the species threatened with extinction.

Please make sure to read the job description and the specifications of the person (available on the university’s website, which was accessed by the “application” button) to get full details of this role.

What we can offer you

• Freedom (and support) to follow your intellectual interests and work creatively through specializations to produce international exciting research.
• Support teams that understand the goals of research and education on a large scale and partnership with our academics accordingly.
• The Directorate of Innovation, Impact and Works that work closely with our academics provide specialized support for external participation and development.
• The EXER Academic Initiative that supports high -performance academics to achieve their capabilities and develop their career.
• Many of the benefits of employees, including the leading benefits in the sector Motherhood, adoption, and parents ’shared vacations (Up to 26 weeks full salaries), paternity leave (up to 6 weeks full wage), and fertility treatment policy.
• A beautiful university campus located in the amazing heart of Devon.

More information
For more information, please call Darren Croft, Animal Conduct, Email dpcroft@exter.ac.uk.