Senior Research Assistant

About the role

This thirty-two-month post will enable you to explore how counter fraud is currently delivered within the NHS in England and to generate a range of recommendations and resources about how the current provision could be reorganised and strengthened.

We want to work with a great qualitative and/or design researcher, who has excellent practical, analytic, and conceptual skills. You will be working as part of a friendly and supportive multi-disciplinary team – including colleagues with disciplinary backgrounds in law, criminology, and medical sociology. You will be based in the Implementation and Innovation Research Group (IIR) at Northumbria University, working primarily with Tim Rapley and Tom Sanders.

Working as part of multi-disciplinary team, you will support the delivery of qualitative, co-development and evaluation work on the NIHR HSDR funded SCAN research project by undertaking research activity, writing up research work for publication and collaborating with project partners.  

You will undertake qualitative interviews and document analysis to explore the role of regional forums and organisations in NHS counter fraud knowledge exchange. You will undertake co-design workshops with the public, NHS, and counter fraud stakeholders to develop and prototype a range of recommendations and resources to strengthen the counter fraud response. You will undertake a formal evaluation – potentially including interviews, focus groups, surveys, observation - of a selection of the resources that we have co-developed. Some of the fieldwork will be conducted in person, so at times there will be travel to different parts of England, some will also be conducted remotely.

This role is fixed term for 32 months and will start in Spring 2025.

About the team

The study is a collaboration between university partners - Northumbria University and Manchester University.

You will be embedded in the Implementation and Innovation Research Group (IIR) - a small friendly cross departmental group between Departments of Nursing, Midwifery and Health and Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing at Northumbria University.

You will be formally based in the Department of Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing within the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at Northumbria University, Coach Lane campus, one of five departments within the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences.

About you

To be successful in the role you will have:

Good practical, analytic and conceptual skills in qualitative research. You will hold a PhD, have submitted your PhD or be about to submit your PhD in the next two months, or have equivalent experience, in a health, design and/or social science related discipline.

Good practical, analytic and conceptual skills in co-design/co-production Is desirable, as is knowledge of contemporary debates in relation to the organisation of health care, and knowledge of debates and challenges relating to counter-fraud. Ability to travel for purpose of data collection to various locations in the UK is essential.

Further information is available in the person specification.

If you would like an informal discussion about the role, please contact Professor Tim Rapley - tim.rapley@northumbria.ac.uk, Professor Tom Sanders -t.sanders@northumbria.ac.uk, or Dr. Cerian Griffiths - cerian.griffiths@northumbria.ac.uk

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