BLMK Senior Research Fellow - Bids Writer

The University of Bedfordshire is a centre of excellence in integrated care research. 

Funded by NHS England, we established the Bedfordshire, Luton & Milton Keynes (BLMK) Integrated Care System (ICS) Research and Innovation Hub. We are also one of the main partners in a National Institute for Health Research Policy Research Unit (NIHR PRU) for Optimising Integrated Care Services (OptICS) for physical and mental health care. This is an investigation of integrated care for adults at risk of cardiovascular disease and living with mild to moderate mental health concerns. We wish to appoint Senior Research Fellow to work across these two units and with a team of world leading researchers as well as a system of academics, commissioners and policy partners. 

Our ambition is to ‘Create an inclusive health and social care workforce; and piloting and evaluating new ways of working to reduce economic, health and social care inequalities‘. 

The successful candidate will be joining the Institute for Health Research & Institute for Applied Social Research which are international centres for research excellence; 76% and 81% of our research outputs are 3* or 4* respectively - “internationally excellent or world leading” - Research Excellence Framework 2021. 

The successful candidate will have a good first degree or a Masters degree in Applied Health and/or Social Care. They should possess excellent quantitative and/or qualitative skills and extensive experience of how to manage projects with multiple partners. A PhD and/or experience of working in research and innovation roles including writing research proposals are essential too. 

The post holder will need to:

• Provide research and evaluation support to a range of projects, and advice to health and social care colleagues regarding project design, quantitative and qualitative analysis, analysis of existing databases and data, and best-value, grants and intellectual property.
• Identify research funding opportunities and apply for research funding regionally, nationally and internationally, aligned to the interests of the BLMK ICR&I Hub and PRU-BaSS.
• Deliver research training, study support, research delivery support and accrual of research activity
• Work closely with the OptICS team internally and externally to the University of Bedfordshire
• Engage with key stakeholders including Clinical Research Networks, Academic Health Science Networks, Universities and Higher Education Institutions, Government bodies, Public Health, Third Sector and Provider organisations to support collaboration on research.
• Connect with research leads and coordinators across the health and care system and establish research networks to share information, disseminate research, good practice and ideas both system wide and externally creating a systematic approach to research.
• Signpost colleagues to available support with key elements of research including project design, analysis of existing databases, quantitative and qualitative analysis, best-value, grants and intellectual property.

Excellent communication, interpersonal and organisational skills will be essential. 

Informal enquiries can be made to Professor Yannis Pappas, University of Bedfordshire, Yannis.pappas@beds.ac.uk  

Interviews will be held on December 16^th 2024 

For a full job description and person specification please click here 

The post will be based at Putteridge Bury Campus (with travel to other campuses as required). 

The University is committed to equality of opportunity and values the diversity of all its workforce and student population. 

The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

Please note a Curriculum Vitae will only be accepted if accompanied by a fully completed University application form. 

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