Exciting 4 year Postdoc position on the project ‘DRIVERS: Identifying drivers of schistosomiasis treatment failure and recommendations for treatment strategies’, working with Profs Poppy Lamberton, Jean Coulibaly, Seke Kayuni, Janelisa Musaya, Justin Nono Komguep, Joaquin Prada and a wider international team from Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Malawi and the UK.

The PDRA will specifically lead the research into quantifying individual level factors which are driving poor treatment efficacy and rapid re-infection. They will work closely alongside Dr Fiona Allan, who is leading the research on community level factors driving maintained transmission. In particular, they will oversee individual level factors such as hybrid parasite species, immunology, coinfection, drug absorption, metabolism, and host behaviour. It is not expected that the successful candidate will undertake all of these aspects, but in discussion with them and the team, they will take a lead in more focused work on one or two of these aspects and in the over-arching analyses of the combination of factors.

This position will include working with international partners and performing field work and training in Côte d’Ivoire and Malawi, collecting data and being involved in the laboratory processing, statistical analyses and leading on papers and results dissemination. The project and team will be working closely with national control programmes, WHO and ESPEN, and this will enable the PDRA to also gain experience in and build a network with these international policy stakeholders.

The DRIVERS project runs until 2030 and has recently started, giving the new PDRA an exciting opportunity for a 4 year position in a highly supportive and friendly environment.

They will be based in the school of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine, at the University of Glasgow , renown for being a welcoming, supportive, friendly, and sociable international community. They will be embedded within the Lamberton Lab (https://www.poppylamberton.com/), a highly interdisciplinary group, which are committed to doing great science with lovely people. If that sounds like something that you would enjoy then please do get in touch with Poppy (poppy.lamberton@glasgow.ac.uk) for a chat and apply here before the deadline of the 26th January 2026.