Working with us
Paid employment
There are currently no vacancies at the Organic Research Centre. Upcoming vacancies will be posted on this page.
Internships and volunteers
We welcome short and long term volunteers to assist us across all areas of activity and we operate an inters programme linked to specific research projects. Contact us for further information.
Postgraduate research
Opportunities may exist for MSc and PhD research projects linked to our current research areas. Contact the relevant team leader for further information.
Participatory research
Much of our research involves participatory engagement of producers and other businesses - we currently have over 50 businesses working with us and have now established a Participatory Research Network to develop this work. If you are a producer, processor or other business interested in getting involved with research, please contact the Senior Programme Manager.
Partner organisations
ORC works collaboratively on projects and in its dissemination of results with a number of UK and European partners.
Europe-wide, ORC was a founding member of The European Consortium for Organic Plant Breeding (ECO-PB) – for more information see their website www.ecopb.org.
We are members of FQH – the International Research Association for Organic Food Quality and Health. www.organicfqhresearch.org.
In the UK, ORC and HDRA work closely together under their Initiative on Organic Research (IOR). It was also a founding member of the Colloquium of Organic Researchers (COR) – contact our research department for more details of both. ORC is also a partner in Organic Centre Wales.
ORC works closely with IOTA, who have undertaken collation and analysis of organic research. Reports with practical recommendations for use by advisers and others is available on www.organicadvice.org.uk/res_reviews_public.htm.
Organic e-prints provides a fully searchable archive for all organic research. To upload results and search projects Europe wide go to www.orgprints.org.