Salary: £35,200-£45,700 per annum
Location: Cambridge, UK – Hybrid
Contract: Full time, Permanent, 35 hours per week
Are you passionate about safeguarding research integrity, and using data to uncover the patterns others miss? Help shape the future of research integrity by combining investigation, analytics, and expert judgement in a role with real impact.
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
Join CUP&A's Publishing Ethics and Research Integrity (PERI) team and play a central role in safeguarding trust in global research. Whether you come from a research integrity, publishing, or independent investigative background, this role offers the opportunity to combine expert judgement with data-driven insight to detect and prevent complex integrity challenges.
This role offers the opportunity to lead complex cases, uncover patterns through data, and develop innovative approaches that strengthen publishing practices and proactively monitor and manage integrity risks across a diverse portfolio.
About the role
In this role, you will combine investigative expertise with data-driven insight to uphold research integrity and strengthen publishing practices across a global portfolio.
- Lead and resolve complex research integrity and publication ethics cases, ensuring fair, consistent, and evidence-based outcomes
- Use data, analytics, and automation to identify patterns, uncover risks, and generate actionable intelligence for investigations and proactive monitoring
- Develop tools and analytical approaches for the team's toolkit, strengthening our ability to detect and respond to integrity issues at scale
- Provide expert advice and guidance to editors, colleagues, and stakeholders to support high-quality, ethical publishing
- Develop risk, monitoring, and auditing (RMA) approaches to proactively identify and mitigate integrity risks across the portfolio
Additional responsibilities and accountabilities include:
- Contribute to policy, process, and workflow improvements using insights from casework and data analysis
- Build relationships with other data and analytics colleagues, advocating for the PERI team's interests in broader business data and automation conversations.
- Maintaining an understanding of key developments in the publishing ethics and research integrity landscape.
- Contribute to working groups and project teams where your expertise is relevant, and manage small projects within the PERI team.
- Collaborate across teams and contribute to training, reporting, and continuous improvement initiatives in service of high publishing and research standards.
- If opportunities arise, contribute to the team's thought leadership and meta-research initiatives.
This position has been classified as a hybrid role, requiring the selected candidate to typically spend 40-60% of their time collaborating and connecting face-to-face at their dedicated location. Aside from our hybrid principles, other flexible working requests will be considered from the first day of employment, including other work arrangements should you require adjustments due to a disability or long-term health condition.
About You
- You bring a strong combination of investigative judgement, knowledge of publishing, analytical thinking, and a commitment to upholding high standards in research and publishing.
- You have experience handling research integrity, publication ethics, editorial/peer review, or investigative work, with the ability to assess complex and sensitive issues fairly and objectively
- You have strong analytical skills and are confident working with data—able to combine multiple sources to identify patterns and generate robust, evidence-based insights
- You are naturally curious and detail-oriented, with a track record of following evidence, asking the right questions, and avoiding premature conclusions
- You communicate clearly and diplomatically, translating complex or technical issues into practical advice for a range of stakeholders
- You hold yourself to high standards of professionalism and integrity, and are comfortable working with ambiguity and difficult or sensitive situations.
- You are well organised, able to manage competing priorities and projects, and comfortable working both independently and collaboratively within a team
- You are motivated by improving research integrity and are keen to contribute to policy, process, and continuous improvement initiatives
- You are open to developing or applying analytical tools and approaches to strengthen the team's investigative capabilities
If you meet the above minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply. Your application will be even stronger if you can also demonstrate the following desirable criteria:
- Awareness of legal issues impacting publishing ethics and research integrity
- Knowledge and experience working with open-source integrity data (e.g. OpenAlex, CrossRef, Retraction Watch, Problematic Paper Screener)
- We are particularly interested in candidates with academic expertise in computer science, engineering, physics, or another discipline represented in Cambridge's portfolio, and which complements the team's existing expertise (earth/environmental science, political science, biomedical science, history).
For a detailed job description, please refer to the link at the bottom of the advert on our careers site.
We are a Disability Confident (DC) employer that is committed to equality and inclusion ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. The DC scheme's Offer of an Interview commitment applies to applicants who opt in, and disclose a disability or a long-term health condition, and who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable and/or appropriate, we prioritise those who best meet the minimum criteria, as we would for applicants who do not have a disability or long-term health condition.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov.uk website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for.
Rewards and benefits
We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Group personal pension scheme
- Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
- Green travel schemes
Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be 7 June 2026. We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place from w/c 15th June 2026.
If you are shortlisted and progressed through the stages, you can expect:
- 1st interview- via MS Teams
- A role related task
- 2nd interview, if successful- face to face in Cambridge
If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process due to a disability or a long-term health condition, there will be an opportunity for you to inform us via the online application form. We will do our best to accommodate your needs.
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, applications must be submitted via our official online application procedure. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters. If you experience technical difficulties or require additional support with submitting your online application, contact the Recruiter.
Why join us
Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You will belong to a collaborative team that is exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it is safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.
We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.
