Research Fellow (100289-0724)

Location: University of Warwick Campus, Coventry

Duration: Ending 30 September 2027

About the Role

For informal enquiries, please contact Dr Ila Bharatan at Ila.bharatan@wbs.ac.uk.

Warwick Business School has recently launched the WBS Centre for Health and Care Research (WBS-CHCR). Health and care research is one of the core pillars at WBS and the health and care sector is our most researched area. We seek to build on our strong foundations to develop WBS as a world-leading centre in applied research in health and care that makes a difference in practice. In support of this, we are recruiting for a Research Fellow post starting in August 2024. The position is fixed term for a period of 36 months.

The WBS-CHCR will bring together scholars across Warwick Business School and the wider University with an interest in health and care research. We seek to build on our strong connections with the practitioner community in the UK and globally, working at the leading edge of thinking and practice in health and care research. Our aims are to:

1. Build capacity for high-quality academic research that makes a difference in practice
2. Engage high-quality research that is co-produced with users, practitioners and policymakers as partners
3. Enhance the visibility and accessibility of our research, closing the gap between research and practice
4. Enable thought leadership across the wider health and care system to support the delivery of high-quality, safe and equitable care.

Current areas of research include large-scale funded programmes focused upon lean-based health service improvement (Health Foundation); implementation science (NIHR Applied Research West Midlands); Defining value from health and care improvement (in partnership with NHS Horizons) innovation for care leavers (ESRC); The implementation of virtual wards in the NHS (NHS Midlands); What Works for SEND service improvement (Department for Education); evaluation of transformation programmes in local care providers (two, variously funded by South Warwickshire Universities Foundation Trust and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire).

We are an interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners, who enjoy working together in a collegiate, supportive, and developmental environment. We are proud of a group culture based on a developmental, inclusive, supportive and positive approach, and one that values feedback, teamwork, transparency, and discussion. Our goal is to provide an excellent environment for positive, talented, and enthusiastic researchers to achieve career and personal goals.

The postholder will divide their time between two areas of activity: (1) progressing their own applied research agenda linked to health and care research; (2) supporting the activities of WBS-CHCR; helping to develop a thriving, connected interdisciplinary research community for health and care, creating strong foundations for applied research and building close relationships with practice and policy and with regional partners in health and social care, to drive thought leadership.

The post holder will benefit from the mentoring of a professorial colleague, to help them develop their academic careers, over the three-year period. They will have their own budget for research and travel.

CLOSING DATE: Monday 05 August 2024 at 11.55pm

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