Post-doctoral Research Associate

About us

Applications are invited for a 3 year Post-Doctoral Research Associate position to work on the Wellcome-funded SHARE project (Environmentally Sustainable Health Research) at the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London. The SHARE project is a large multi-national project applying a critical, but constructive, lens to the tools developed to encourage and enable more environmentally sustainable health research.  The project is being jointly led by Dr Gabrielle Samuel (King’s College London) and Dr Federica Lucivero (University of Oxford), with a research team in India, Kenya, Ghana and Brazil.

About the role

The successful applicant will be working with Dr Gabrielle Samuel to ensure the timely completion of key deliverables on the SHARE project.

The successful applicant will have a number of roles. First and foremost, they will be responsible for the UK element of the SHARE project, which involves conducting, analysing and publishing the findings of interviews with UK health researchers about their experiences of using tools designed to reduce the environmental harms associated with health research. The role also includes leading a collaboration with other members of the globally distributed research team who will be conducting similar interviews, to comparatively analyse empirical research outputs. Collaborating with public engagement specialists, health researchers, tool developers and the wider research team, these insights will be used to develop practical resources for the research community.  This will involve the successful applicant co-conducting workshops, analysing findings, and writing publications. Finally, responsibilities will involve contributing to the community building strand of the project, including supporting the generation of webinars on topics of interest to the community, and the making of video case studies, demonstrating best practice in sustainable health research. The role holder will also be expected to manage administration aspects of the SHARE project.

The successful applicant must be able to work independently, and have experience with both working in a leadership position, as well as working collaboratively within a diverse broader research team. The applicant must be flexible to working across different time zones.

The project will be based within the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, which is an interdisciplinary community whose internationally-recognised expertise, consultancy work and contributions to policy development are utilised by a myriad of organisations and networks. It is ranked within the top 10 sociology departments in the UK.

For more details on the project, or questions about the application, please contact: 

gabrielle.samuel@kcl.ac.uk

This is a full-time post, and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 30th April 2028.

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