Job Description

Grade UE05: 29,179 - 33,482 per annum pro rata

CSG / Department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability / Edinburgh Earth Initiative

Part Time: 9 hours per week

Fixed-term: 9 months from September 2025

The Schools of Mathematics and Geosciences, along with the Business School, are looking for a masters student to contribute to a project to develop a suite of educational, data-driven materials for teachers to empower mathematics students to develop modelling skills in climate and sustainability contexts. This 9-month project will also look at how educational content can be transferred and recontextualised across disciplines with different pedagogical cultures.


Click here to view the full project brief for the Earth Fellow: climate competencies in the maths curriculum, including key tasks and deliverables (opens browser in new tab).

This post will be appointed at Grade UE05, step 1 which is 29,179 per annum, pro rata (15.99 per hour).

Earth Fellowships are only open to current postgraduate and PhD students at the University of Edinburgh based in the UK. Please do not apply if you are not a current University of Edinburgh student.

Your skills and attributes for success:

Current University of Edinburgh masters student in the academic year '25/'26 academic year. An undergraduate degree in a highly-numerate subject, (for example, geosciences, informatics, physics, engineering, mathematics, economics). An interest in education for sustainable development. Excellent written communication skills including the ability to communicate complex information clearly and good attention to detail for editing written pieces. Ability to work with diverse stakeholders stemming from a range of different disciplines. Experience writing computer code (e.g., Python) to be used in a teaching environment or to be used by others (desirable but not essential). Experience working in a climate/sustainability science area (desirable but not essential).

As an Earth Fellow, you will be joining a diverse, fun and dynamic team of researchers, students and staff all working together to address the global climate emergency. As part of the Earth Fellows programme, you will have access to co-working space, exciting networking and personal development opportunities and opportunities to contribute towards partnerships and solutions for climate change on a global scale.





Earth Fellows work on individual and team-based projects which contribute to the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Earth Initiative's work on climate change research-led impact, innovation, engagement, and teaching.

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Application Information

Please ensure you include the following documents in your application:

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As a valued member of our team you can expect:

A competitive salary. An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community. Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, competitive pension schemes, staff discounts, and family-friendly initiatives. Check out the full list on our

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Championing equality, diversity and inclusion

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.


Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our

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The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. They will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

Key dates to note

The closing date for applications is

15th August 2025.

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