Research Fellow

Contract Type: Fixed Term contract up to January 2025 

To create and contribute to the creation of knowledge by undertaking a specified range of activities within an established research programme and/or specific research project.

We are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for the Wellcome Trust-funded project, ‘Border Crossings: Charity and voluntarism in Britain’s mixed economy of healthcare since 1948’. The postholder will work with John Mohan (University of Birmingham) in research on the contribution and impact of charitable and voluntary sector providers of institutional health care, on charitable fundraising in the NHS, and on health care policy issues relating to the contribution of charity and of voluntary sector providers to the NHS.

The precise content of the work to be carried out will be determined in accordance with the wider aims of the project and in alignment with the expertise of the appointee.

Further information about the project is available at https://more.bham.ac.uk/border-crossings/border-crossings/projects/ The postholder will support the second and fourth of the projects listed there. Likely fields of inquiry include the roles, responsibilities and relationships of voluntary sector health care providers which have either remained outside the NHS or moved between voluntary and public sector control during the NHS’s existence. In addition the postholder will contribute to work on the relationship between charitable fundraising in the contemporary NHS and health policy. The work will involve qualitative research, principally based on documentary analyses, as well as interviews, and would suit a social scientist with interests in health care policy and the voluntary sector.

Role Summary

• Work within specified research grants and projects and contribute to writing bids 
• Operate within area of specialism
• Analyse and interpret research findings and results 

Main Duties

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

• Develop research objectives and proposals for own or joint research, with assistance of a mentor if required
• Contribute to writing bids for research funding
• Analyse and interpret data

Person Specification

• First degree in area of specialism and normally, a higher degree relevant to research area or equivalent qualifications
• High level analytical capability
• Ability to communicate complex information clearly

Informal enquiries to John Mohan, email: j.mohan@bham.ac.uk

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