Research Fellow

Do you have expertise in preference elicitation, choice modelling, discrete choice surveys? Passionate about technology in health and social care?  Want to work with world-leading implementation and decision scientists, health economists, social policy experts, care and tech industries? Do you want to further your career in one of the UK’s leading research-intensive Universities?

We are looking for a Research Fellow (Social Care Research and Development) to lead the delivery of our 30-month NIHR research project (SENSITISE) exploring the priorities of people that use, develop and fund technology in social care. 

The School of Healthcare is investing in our research capacity and capability. We need world-leading researchers to help achieve our aims of impactful applied health and care research of the highest quality, improving society. The School of Healthcare is the lead partner in the NIHR School for Social Care Research (Phase IV) at Leeds, NICHE-Leeds (a partnership between science and care in the city) and the Accelerated healing and rehabilitation work of the NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Leeds. You will work closely with colleagues in our research teams in the School and Faculty of Medicine and Health to deliver our ambitious social care research portfolio.

Focused on your research, you will be a key member of our School. Working closely with academic colleagues, and overseen by Professor Carl Thompson, you will lead and deliver our SENSITISE research project, helping develop it into a longer programme of work and helping disseminate our research findings in imaginative and impactful ways. With a postgraduate degree and ideally a PhD (or be near to submitting a PhD, or possessing a Master’s degree with equivalent research experience) in a subject area relating to applied health and care research, you will be able to demonstrate experience in research in care and health settings.

What we offer in return 

26 days holiday plus approx.16 Bank Holidays/days that the University is closed by custom (including Christmas) – that’s 42 days a year! 

Generous pension scheme plus life assurance– the University contributes 14.5% of salary 

Health and Wellbeing: Discounted staff membership options at The Edge, our state-of-the-art Campus gym, with a pool, sauna, climbing wall, cycle circuit, and sports halls. 

Personal Development: Access to courses run by our Organisational Development & Professional Learning team, and self-development courses including languages, Creative Writing, Wellbeing Therapies and much more. 

Access to on-site childcare, shopping discounts and travel schemes are also available. 

And much more! 

If you are looking for a role that will develop your research skills and you as a leader whilst working in a friendly team, apply today.

To explore the post further, discuss SENSITISE, or for any queries you may have, please contact:

Professor Carl Thompson Email: c.a.thompson@leeds.ac.uk

Visa Eligibility

Please note that this post may be suitable for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route but first-time applicants might need to qualify for salary concessions. For more information please visit: www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa.  For research and academic posts, we will consider eligibility under the Global Talent visa. For more information please visit: https://www.gov.uk/global-talent

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