Job Description

Grade UE05: 29,179 - 33,482 per annum pro-rata (15.99 - 18.35 per hour)

Edinburgh Earth Initiative / Department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability

Part-time: 9 hours per week

Fixed-term: for nine months from August 2025

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.

The Division of Global Agriculture and Food Systems and School of Geosciences are looking for a masters student to contribute to a project to develop a global database of evidence on polyculture yield and biodiversity outcomes. This 9-month project will focus on extracting, categorising and coding data from already-identified research papers, and creating a narrative synthesis of the evidence collected. The resulting resource will support researchers, policy makers, farmers and growers interested in sustainable agriculture.

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

Click here to view the full project brief for the Earth Fellow: evidence from polycultural systems for sustainable agriculture, including key tasks and deliverables

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Your skills and attributes for success:

Current University of Edinburgh Masters student in the academic year '25/'26. An interest in how agriculture and food systems fit within wider planetary health. Familiarity with systematic review software Covidence. Ability to carry out literature reviews of academic literature and other documents. Ability to work proactively with colleagues with a variety of expertise; understanding and valuing different points of view. Excellent communication skills including the ability to communicate complex information clearly.

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.

Click here to view the general Earth Fellow job description

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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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On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore 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

28 July 2025.

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Interviews will be held in August.