Research Associate - EMPOWER Dementia Network (FTC - 44 Months, 0.8 FTE)

The University of West London (UWL) is ranked the best modern university (non-specialist) in London in the Complete University Guide 2025 for the second year in a row. 

The Geller Institute of Ageing and Memory

We are a flagship Institute at the University of West London (UWL), delivering interdisciplinary applied research and education.

At the heart of our mission is to ensure the most vulnerable populations of people living with dementia and older people have better experiences of health and social care and are supported in living well and living at home for longer. All our research and education programmes are guided by an inclusive approach.

Our research funding incorporates Department of Health and Social Care contracts (via NIHR), funding from national and international charities, and philanthropic support. We have established a reputation for the rapid translation of our research into impact, which is informing public discourse, shaping the policy agenda, and translated into practice improvements.

Our postgraduate education programmes offer interdisciplinary, research focused, evidence-based teaching and supervision. Our postgraduate courses are designed to cultivate leaders in ageing and dementia care and improve practice across health and social care settings.

The School of Medicine and Biosciences

The School of Medicine and Biosciences at UWL, is an interdisciplinary research-driven School, embedded within an area of West London with diverse populations and significant pockets of both deprivation and affluence.  We work in partnership with policy makers and practitioners to improve the health of our communities and reduce inequalities, developing and delivering hyperlocal health and social care initiatives, which have the potential to scale up locally and nationally.

The Role

We are seeking an innovative talented individual to join us as a Research Assistant for the national Dementia Network EMPOWER- Empowering a Meaningful Life for All. The Network brings together researchers in dementia care, social care, primary care and palliative care, with lived experts and communities to realize sustained change to support and empower equalities in care for people living and dying with dementia, and their families. The Network is funded the UKRI Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

This is opportunity to join a multidisciplinary network across health and social care with university, community partners, and lived experts by experience. The Network is co-led by Professor Emma Wolverson at the Geller Institute of Ageing and Memory, University of West London and Catherine Evans, King’s College London.

The Network aims to identify, promote and sustain high-quality care for people with dementia and complex needs, and their families, for them to live as well as possible throughout the disease trajectory, including into end of life and bereavement.

You will support the networks patient and public involvement (PPI) panel and help to increase and diversify membership to this group. You will support the networks co-production panel in developing and harnessing creative and inclusive approaches for meaningful engagement and collaboration. You will support community partners in joining the network and through creating opportunities for networking and knowledge exchange. 

The Person

Applications for this position are invited from candidates who have experience of conducting research with people living with dementia and their families, of patient and public involvement in research and of working with community organisations. Excellent communication and organisational skills are essential. 

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