Research Fellow

Fixed Term contract up to May 2025

Role Summary

• Contribute to the day-to-day coordination of Work Package 2 of the research project, ensuring that tasks and objectives are completed to a high standard and within planned timescales
• Contribute to quantitative data collection: Self-reported quality of life and resource use
• Identify cost data associated with resource use, from published sources and by consulting experts
• Analyse and interpret quantitative research findings and results
• Develop positive working relationships with staff in local authorities and organisations overseeing/facilitating FGC
• Summarise and present findings with respect to costs and consequences of FGC
• Contribute to the dissemination of research findings
• Work positively with the principal investigator and co-investigators and members of the project advisory board.
• Ensure that best practice is adhered to in relation to ethics, governance and data security.
• Contributing to teaching and research in the wider Institute

Main Duties

 The responsibilities may include some but not all of the responsibilities outlined below.

• Collect outcomes data using tools such as ICECAP and through methods such as face to face or telephone interviews with research participants
• Collect data on health and social care resource use and societal costs, potentially developing questionnaires or Case Report Forms, and potentially collecting data through face to face or telephone interviews
• Supporting project partners to collect outcomes and cost data
• Data entry
• Identifying monetary costs for resource use
• Data analysis
• Presentation of findings to project partners and at seminars and conferences
• Preparation of publications
• Contribution to teaching

Person Specification

• An undergraduate degree andhigher degree (or equivalent qualifications) in economics/health economics.
• A record of research output, appropriate to career stage.
• Experience of engaging with research participants, or relevant experience of engaging with patients or citizens using social care.
• Experience of coordinating research tasks, and achieving objectives within defined timescales.
• The ability to communicate complex information clearly, to a diverse range of different audiences.
• The ability to work effectively as part of a team.
• Ideally, existing knowledge and/or experience relating to adult social care.
• The ability – as evidenced through the candidate’s career/professional/voluntary experience – to show sensitivity to those sharing potentially distressing experiences.
• A willingness to undertake training and contribute to the wider research environment.

Further particulars can be found here

Informal enquires to Daniella Gause, email: d.gause@bham.ac.uk

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