Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Faculty of Health and Life Sciences

The above full-time post is available immediately on fixed term basis until 31st December 2025 within the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences

The post

The faculty wishes to recruit a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to participate in two research projects within the Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx). The first project is aiming to quantify the risks of deprescribing in people with limited life expectancy, given that many long-term medications take many years to realise a tangible benefit. The second project (TOGETHER 2) is a collaboration with the University of Oxford and is Evaluating video and hybrid group consultations in general practice. The role of Exeter researchers in the project is to examine patient experience data from surveys as well as primary and secondary care utilisation which has been extracted from medical records. 

About you

The successful applicant will require the key skills needed to manage and analyse a large data set of routine healthcare data. Further, they will be able to develop research objectives, projects and proposals; identify sources of research funding and contribute to the process of securing funds and make presentations at conferences and other events.

Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role.

What we can offer you

• Freedom (and the support) to pursue your intellectual interests and to work creatively across disciplines to produce internationally exciting research;
• Support teams that understand the University wide research and teaching goals and partner with our academics accordingly
• An Innovation, Impact and Business directorate that works closely with our academics providing specialist support for external engagement and development
• Our Exeter Academic initiative supporting high performing academics to achieve their potential and develop their career
• A multitude of staff benefits including sector leading benefits around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (up to 26 weeks full pay), Paternity leave (up to 6 weeks full pay), and a Fertility Treatment Policy
• A beautiful campus set in the heart of stunning Devon

The University of Exeter

We are a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities and in the top 200 universities in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 and QS World University Ranking 2024). We combine world-class teaching with world-class research, achieving a Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework Award 2023, underpinned by Gold ratings for Student Experience and Student Outcomes.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commitment

We are committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments are available for interviews and workplaces.

Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our working community. 

Further information

For further information please contact Gary Abel, e-mail g.a.abel@exeter.ac.uk or telephone (01392) 726154.

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