Senior Research Fellow in Public Health

Hours: 0.8FTE (30 hours per week).

Requests for flexible working options will be considered (subject to business need).

Contract Type: Fixed-term, 8 months at 0.8FTE. 

Applications must be received by midnight of the closing date.

Expected Interview date: TBC

Expected start date: 16^th June 2025 

About the role

This Senior Research Fellow position will contribute to the development of primary and community health research activities collaboratively delivered by the Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) and the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration for Kent, Surrey and Sussex.

The post holder will play a key role in preparing a grant proposal to support the Impact and Scalability activity of the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration for Kent, Surrey and Sussex. The proposal will detail an evidence-based evaluation of the ‘Growing Health Together’ initiative, which presents a placed-based community development model designed to support sustainable primary and community care provision.

This will be a desk-based role, contributing to the development and delivery of applied health research projects within the BSMS Primary Care and Public Health and Applied Research Collaboration (Kent, Surrey and Sussex) research portfolios. The post holder will be expected to contribute to the production of (funder) reports. as well as, where required, research publications.

You will support the Principal Investigator and the Department of Primary Care and Public Health. You will also collaborate with colleagues at the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration for Kent, Surrey and Sussex and local primary and community care clinicians.

About you

We are looking for an early to mid-career researcher with relevant experience in research grant proposal development and delivery. You will need to have excellent working understanding of mixed-methods approaches to applied health research, with appropriate experience in quantitative and qualitative data analyses skills. You will need to have solid knowledge of applied health research, health psychology, or a related area, and ideally have specific experience of research in the field of public health and knowledge of primary and community interventions.

About our School

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Brighton and Sussex Medical School is proud to hold a Gold Athena Swann Award.

Why work here

Find out more about our reward and benefits package.

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Further Key Information

Please contact:

Professor Carrie Llewellyn (C.D.Llewellyn@bsms.ac.uk) or

Dr Nina Lockwood (N.Lockwood@bsms.ac.uk) for informal enquiries.

For full details and how to apply please click the 'Apply' button, above.

The University is committed to equality and valuing diversity, and applications are particularly welcomed from women and black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic posts in Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Mathematics (STEMM) at Sussex.

The University of Sussex values the diversity of its staff and students, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

The University requires that work undertaken for the University is performed in the UK. 

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