Director of Research in New Technologies in Healthcare (Part Time)

The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute (THIS Institute) seeks an exceptional individual to provide senior academic leadership in new technologies in healthcare. Funded by the Health Foundation, THIS Institute aims to create a world-leading scientific asset for the NHS by strengthening the evidence-base for improving the quality and safety of healthcare. The Institute hosts around 60 staff and students and works with a diverse range of collaborators across multiple sectors to deliver high quality, high impact and innovative programmes of research.

Operating at a level equivalent to professor (grade 12), you will have the vision, leadership experience and enthusiasm to develop and maintain an externally funded research programme, carrying out original and innovative studies and actively contributing to advancement of the field. You will be an excellent team-player with a strong sense of mission and commitment to organisational citizenship, including management duties.

With responsibility for designing and directing high impact studies, you will identify and secure research funding. You will ensure coherence, focus and dialogue across the institute's portfolio of research. Leading teams of multidisciplinary researchers, you will create strategic partnerships, working collaboratively with a range of stakeholders, including NHS organisations, patient and public groups, and charitable and civil society organisations. You will lead in particular on strategic development of an online collaborative community, using some of the principles of open source innovation to coordinate debates, discussions and definitions of standards, safety, ethics, regulation, and good practice relating to new technologies in healthcare, for example in the area of ambient voice technology.

You will be a skilled researcher with a strong track record in income generation, publications and impact, and in leading large, complex research programmes. You will have a strong background in safety science and regulatory studies. You will have the ability to collaborate effectively in mixed-methods, multidisciplinary projects. You will demonstrate the ability to work effectively with diverse collaborations, have excellent analytical and communication skills, and be able to work at pace across a wide variety of topics and activities. Some policy experience would be an advantage. You must have a PhD (or equivalent). The PhD would preferably be in safety science or regulatory studies. If your PhD is in a different area, equivalent experience in safety science of regulatory studies is required.

Funds for this post are available until 31 March 2028 in the first instance. The post-holder will be based at THIS Institute, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

We particularly welcome applications from women and /or candidates from a BME background for this vacancy as they are currently under-represented at this level in our department/institution/Faculty/School/University.

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