The Department of Statistics is a welcoming, supportive and exciting place to work.
Current Vacancies
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant to join the Department of Statistics for three years, working on the development of the Genetic Inheritance Graph (GIG), a new computational framework for understanding genetic history and structural variation. You will work closely with Professor Anastasia Ignatieva, Professor Gil McVean and Dr Yan Wong, with opportunities to collaborate with researchers at the University of Bath and international experts across human, bacterial and agricultural genetics.
The role would suit someone with, or close to completing, a PhD/DPhil in statistics, mathematics, computer science, statistical or population genetics, or a related subject, with strong coding and software development skills. You don't need to have worked in genetics before, but you should be keen to apply your skills to problems in this area.
Closing date: 12.00 noon, Monday 12 October 2026
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Florence Nightingale Bicentenary Fellow in Statistics
We are looking for a Florence Nightingale Bicentenary Fellow to join the Department of Statistics for two years in the first instance. Designed as a career development position, the fellowship offers the opportunity to develop your research alongside teaching, with around half the teaching load of a standard Oxford faculty position and £2,000 a year available towards research costs.
The role would suit someone with a doctorate in statistics or a related subject whose research interests complement the work of the Oxford Protein Informatics group. You will join a collaborative department with research spanning computational and theoretical statistics, machine learning and probability, as well as applied areas including statistical and population genetics, bioinformatics and statistical epidemiology.
Closing date: 12.00 noon, Wednesday 21 October 2026
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Summer Internships
As a department, we offer paid summer research internships. If you would like to learn more about our internships, we have a dedicated page for them.
Wider University
Vacancies for the wider University can be found on either the staff HR self-service page HR Self-Service | Staff Gateway (ox.ac.uk) or on the Oxford University Jobs page.
The University also has its own Temporary Employment Service which provides temporary assignments throughout the University.