Research Fellow

About this role:

This is an exciting opportunity to join a multidisciplinary research team at the University of the West of England on a study funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The successful applicant will help deliver a study titled, ‘West of England collaboration to prioritise local mental health research’. Over 12 months you will work with patients, carers, stakeholders and mental health care providers to identify the mental health research priorities in the West of England region. At the end of the award these priorities will be used to develop a grant application for a five-year mental health research programme.

You will be based in the Centre for Public Health and Wellbeing at the UWE Bristol Frenchay Campus. You will have the opportunity to apply and / or develop your skills in evidence synthesis (bringing together knowledge of local mental health needs from existing reports and data), patient and public involvement (to enable the voices of people with lived experience of diagnosable mental health conditions, or their carers, to be heard), stakeholder engagement (using qualitative skills to capture the perspectives of providers, commissioners and the third sector) and skills mapping (to understand the capacity and capability for mental health research at UWE).

About you: 

You will be a self-motivated individual with prior experience of mixed methods research. You will have prior experience in public mental health research or equivalent experience working with populations or communities at risk of poor health. As this is a key role within the research study team, you will have excellent communication and organisational skills, be an enthusiastic team player, be able to contribute to several project activities that are running concurrently in different workstreams, delivering work with careful attention to detail and to strict deadlines. You will have experience of producing academic reports and outputs and sharing scientific information with a wide variety of audiences.

Where is this role based?

This post is based at our lively Frenchay campus where we have invested in the latest facilities and resources to give both our staff and students access to everything they need to succeed.

Further information:

If you would like to speak to us to find out more about this role please contact:

Dr Oliver Clackson Bonnington on 0117 328 1502 or email oliver.clacksonbonnington@uwe.ac.uk

Professor Julie Mytton on 0117 328 8583 or email julie.mytton@uwe.ac.uk

This is a full time, fixed-term post for 12 months, subject to confirmation of the contract with NIHR. However, this post is available on a job share basis for applicants wishing to work part-time.

This post requires enhanced DBS clearance.

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