Professor/Associate Professor in Place Based Health and Care

Please note, this post is permanent and full-time at 1 FTE.

Do you want to spend your working week doing creative, fun, edgy AND scientifically excellent research and innovation?

Do you want to work with world leading experts in health and social care, the geographies (human and physical), social and political sciences, design and innovation, and climate and environment to take on the most important challenges to rural and coastal health and wellbeing?

Do you have a sense that your own research discipline or approaches limits your chances to develop truly transdisciplinary solutions to inequities driven by the place, space and pace where people live?

Do you want to be out in the real world working with diverse groups in rural and coastal communities one day, working on rich data sets with teams in the local integrated care system the next and then finishing the week with a ‘design for health’ hackathon with rural young people to develop tools for increasing climate and health literacy?

If the answer is 'yes!' then this is the job for you and Lincoln is the place to do it.

The University of Lincoln is seeking to appoint a Professor/Associate Professor in Place Based Health and Care to join the Lincoln Institute for Rural and Coastal Health. This position is externally funded by Research England's Expanding Excellence in England fund as part of a £10.9 million grant awarded to the University.

At the heart of one of the world’s great historic cities, research at the University of Lincoln engages in transforming lives and communities. In recent years the city has seen significant investment in redeveloping areas of the city centre and the University was awarded the prestigious Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher Education in 2023.

The Lincoln Institute for Rural and Coastal Health (LIRCH) is the country's first integrated and multidisciplinary research institute dedicated to rural and coastal health research. LIRCH has been awarded £10.9 million funding from Research England’s Expanding Excellence in England (E3) fund and is in the process of significant expansion. As part of this expansion, the University will recruit to over twenty research positions. A technical and professional services team will also be embedded within the Institute to support the research and develop a financially sustainable research Institute.

With this expanded capacity, the Institute will bring together multiple disciplines to produce impactful research helping to tackle the place-based inequalities experienced by rural, coastal, and remote communities. LIRCH aims to create the future academic and community leaders of rural and coastal health. Appointed Professors will be pivotal in achieving this by playing an active role in co-designing and shaping the emerging discipline, alongside affected communities.

The appointed Professor/Associate Professor in Place-based Health and Care will lead the LIRCH academic and technical team in a mission to understand rural, coastal, and remote cultures, contexts, and perspectives. They will lead the investigation and co-production of community-led design of health and social care solutions ensuring that they are tested at a grassroots level.

For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Professor Mark Gussy (mgussy@lincoln.ac.uk).

Further details:

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You can find out more about working at Lincoln, and everything that we have to offer, at: https://www.lincoln.ac.uk/jobopportunities/

Closing Date: Sunday 15 December 2024
Interview Date: Wednesday 08 January 2025

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