Research Fellow (699949)

This role is for a Research Fellow to work full-time for 33 months with the Scottish Centre for Employment Research (SCER) on an exciting three-year £1.8m NIHR-funded applied work-health research project titled WISHES (Workplace Intervention for Sustainable Health and Employment Support).

Term: Fixed Term (31/03/2028)

The project is led by Prof Whitworth in SCER with an expert research team drawn from the Universities of Strathclyde, UEA, Leicester, Oxford, Sheffield, King’s College London, and Westminster as well as disabled people’s organisations and experts including Speakup Self Advocacy, Breakthrough UK, Sick in the City, and Catherine Hale.

SCER is situated within the Department for Work, Employment and Organisation (WEO) in Strathclyde Business School, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. SCER is an expert and high impact research centre focused on issues around labour market inclusivity and performance including fair work, workplace productivity and wellbeing, employability policies, and collaborative leadership. SCER is a dynamic, inclusive, values led research centre with recognised international expertise and a successful track-record of funded research including from ESRC, NIHR, Scottish Government, Nuffield Foundation, Gingerbread, Robertson Trust, and local and regional government. Strathclyde Business School, within which WEO sits, is a Triple Accredited Business School, one of the UK’s best ranked Business Schools, and a top 100 European Business School.

The WISHES project will trial job crafting for workers with health conditions, disabilities, and allied workplace support needs. Job crafting is an intervention to support workers (and their line managers and wider organisations) to modify their jobs and/or workplaces so that they are happier, healthier, and more productive in their work. Job crafting has a positive emerging international evidence base and WISHES offers a step-change in international job crafting evidence in terms of its scale, rigour, ambition, the role of organisational contexts and mechanisms, and the range of outcomes studied. WISHES is committed to coproduction with disabled people and disabled people’s organisations as well as with policy stakeholders and employers. This active co-production is a core thread led elsewhere in the project that the Research fellow will interface with.

To be considered for the role, you will have (or be very close to having) a PhD in an appropriate discipline and have an appropriate Masters (or have significant relevant research and professional experience) in addition to a relevant undergraduate degree.

Formal interviews for this post will be held on Tuesday, 27 May 2025.

Informal enquiries about the post can be directed to Professor Adam Whitworth (adam.whitworth@strath.ac.uk).

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