Research Associate/Fellow (Fixed term, Part time)

We are looking for a Research Associate/Fellow with experience of qualitative and stroke research to start immediately to assist on this exciting project. The role involves conducting qualitative research on the R-SPEAK project (Revolutionizing Speech Enhancement in Aphasia Using Knowledgeable-AI). This includes conducting semi-structured interviews with people with aphasia and their carers, and conducing focus groups with healthcare professionals. The role will also involve transcription and qualitative data analysis and contributing to the (re)design of a user interface based on findings from the qualitative work, as well as contributing to a final project report. 

You will be expected to plan and conduct work using approaches or methodologies and techniques appropriate to the research design and will be responsible for writing up your work for publication. You will join an established team, led by Prof Kate Radford, whose research interest relates to rehabilitation after stroke and Dr Jacob Andrews, who has expertise in qualitative methods and digital health technologies, in addition to clinicians working in stroke and neurological rehabilitation and colleagues at Sheffield Hallam University

This is a fixed term post until 31/10/2024. Hours of work are part-time (10.5 hours per week).

Requests for secondment from internal candidates may be considered on the basis that prior agreement has been sought from both your current line manager and the manager of your substantive post, if you are already undertaking a secondment role.

Informal enquiries may be addressed to Professor Kate Radford, tel: 0115 8230226/ 07811783599. Or email kate.radford@nottingham.ac.uk. Please note that applications sent directly to this email address will not be accepted.

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