Research Associate in Digital Health Design

Closing date: 13 November 2023 

Job description

King’s Health Partners Digital Health Hub (KHP DHH) is one of five new UK Hubs supported by the EPSRC to promote knowledge and skills sharing across healthcare, academia and business, and drive innovation in digital health. The KHP DHH is an accessible national multi-disciplinary resource supporting training, co-creation, and translation of digital health technologies. We have brought together a critical mass of expertise from across KHP, patient and public representatives, NHS and social care and industry partners, to provide support, enable knowledge transfer and create opportunities for the acceleration of digital health across the UK.

We are seeking to recruit a Research Associate, as a key member of KHP DHH, with a background in Digital Product Design, Interaction Design, Service Design or related fields (e.g. Human-Computer Interaction, Experience Design, Sustainable Design). You will have strong practical design skills and experience of advising on a range of projects, alongside experience of co-designing digital interventions with diverse stakeholder communities. 

The post-holder will be based in Engineering, working across the Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences (NMES), Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery (NMPC) and the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences (BMEIS) in the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine (FoLSM), with a physical teamwork location at the London Institute for Healthcare Engineering (LIHE), St Thomas’ campus. This post holder will work closely with Professor Wei Liu (Engineering, NMES), together with Professor Glenn Robert (Methodologies, NMPC) and Professor Louise Rose (Applied Technologies for Clinical Care, NMPC) to achieve the Co-Creation pillar of the KHP DHH.

KHP DHH will provide: (1) dedicated people and resource, built on a foundation of existing infrastructure but scaled-up with EPSRC funding to meet demand, providing input and guidance on projects supported by the Hub (2) a NHS-academic-industry setting - our core ideology (3) a physical base within the new London Institute for Healthcare Engineering, important for collaboration and common ethos and (4) an excellent training provision to grow national capabilities, with an offering across sectors.

Contract type

This post will be offered on a fixed-term contract for 30 months

This is a full-time post - 100% full time equivalent

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