Research Associate

We are really pleased to offer this excellent opportunity to join our team in the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care as a post-doctoral Research Associate. You will be a key member of a diverse research team working on an exciting NIHR-funded research project looking at how shared decision making is enacted and experienced within healthcare interactions involving psychiatrists and people with intellectual disabilities. The aim of the project is to understand how interactional dynamics contributed to effective medication management for people with intellectual disabilities, who currently experience marked health inequalities.

The research will be conducted using Conversation Analysis, so significant experience in this methodology is essential for the post. You will be responsible for recruiting and supporting research participants, and for data collection in NHS clinics in London and the South East, and data transcription. You will collaborate with research team members in analysing and interpreting the data and preparing reports and academic papers. You will work closely with Dr Deborah Chinn, the project lead, as well as the PPI lead for the research and the project Advisory Group.

You will join a supportive and friendly research division made up of researchers from a wide variety of healthcare and social science disciplines, which sees the continuing professional development of early career researchers as a priority. We are looking for someone with excellent communication skills, who is happy to work independently with the capacity to deliver on the core aspects of the research with good data management and record keeping. We particularly invite applications from under-represented groups and people with lived experience of using services.

This post will be offered on a fixed-term contract untill November 2025.

This is a part-time post - 80% full time equivalent.

• Securing ethical approval for the research
• Recruitment of research participants
• Video-recording psychiatry clinic appointments
• Conducting interviews with research participants
• Managing research data in line with GDPR
• Transcription using Conversation Analysis conventions
• Analysis of data
• Writing up and disseminating findings for a variety of audiences
• Managing the social media activities for the project
• Helping to conduct research team meetings and supporting the establishment and running of the project Advisory Group

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.