Become our next professor

Be supported. Feel valued. Drive your research impact.

Join a university where 91% of our research impact is world leading or internationally excellent*, that’s consistently in the top five for Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, and where research improves lives.

As a talented and driven academic, you’ll play a leading part in our collaborative, multidisciplinary and supportive working environment, and help lead our advances as a global research and education institution.

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91% of our research impact is rated
“world leading” or “internationally excellent”

(*REF 2021)

“If you want to do research that makes a difference, that’s impactful, that makes the world a better and more sustainable place… this is the university for you.”
Professor Malcolm Press CBE, Vice-Chancellor

“This is a ‘can-do’ place for academics. We choose people who bring new thinking and new ways of working to help solve the grand challenges that society faces.”

Professor Tim Cable
Director of the Institute of Sport

Make a difference

You will join a leadership community to support Manchester Metropolitan’s long-term research strategy, enriching students’ lives while having a positive effect on our world.

Browse this site for more details on what this opportunity could mean for you, what it’s like to work at Manchester Metropolitan, and why this city is such a great place to be.

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Explore our research areas

Take a look at some of the areas of world-changing research that we’re looking to grow. And even if you specialise in another area of expertise or you’re an education-focused professor, we’d still love to hear from you.

Advanced Materials

You will join our Advanced Materials and Surface Engineering Research Centre where we focus on key themes that support our sustainable development goals.

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Art, Design or Fashion

Working in the internationally renowned Manchester School of Art and the Manchester Fashion Institute, you will be part of one of the largest Art, Design and Fashion research centres in the country.

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Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming our world – join us to work on AI research that addresses global challenges and translates them into benefits for all.

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Business and Management

You will join our triple-accredited Business School, which has a world-leading reputation for its research in place marketing and management.

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Cardiovascular Health

You will join an institution that researches many aspects of disease pathology and patient impact.

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Education and Youth Studies

You will join research areas that are internationally renowned for their theoretical and methodological innovations.

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Health and Social Care

You will join an institution of innovation, excitement and growth where we explore creative and collaborative methods of engagement and research.

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Sport

Our new Institute of Sport is the home of cross-departmental interdisciplinary research into sport, health and wellbeing – bringing together sport-related activities to help change lives for the better.

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Sustainability

You will join an institution working on projects with funding from organisations like the EU, the UK government, and UK Research and Innovation.

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Advanced Materials

Art, Design or Fashion

Artificial Intelligence

Business and Management

Cardiovascular Health

Education and Youth Studies

Health and Social Care

Sport

Sustainability
City of Manchester

Learn more about life at Manchester Metropolitan and in this great city

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Work at Manchester Met

Read about our ambitions and the groundbreaking research you can do to help us get there.

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Be supported and valued

Get to know the collaborative and multidisciplinary research culture that we enjoy.

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Living in the region

Take a look at all that’s on offer in the North West – from the city to the countryside.

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