Teaching and Research Fellow

Vacancy terms: Fixed-term for 24 months

Salary details: Grade 8 - £49,559 to £55,755 per annum, pro-rata if part-time

Hours per week: 37.5

About the role

The Leicester Lifestyle Health and Research Group (LLHRG) are expanding, with recruitment open to excellent early career researchers on a clear upward trajectory in their field to join the group as a Teaching and Research Fellow.

The LLHRG are part of the Diabetes Research Centre (DRC), Leicester Diabetes Centre (LDC), and NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, with a diverse teaching and research portfolio in the area of 24-hour lifestyle behaviours, including physical activity, sedentary behaviour, sleep and nutrition in the prevention and management of obesity and long-term conditions, such type 2 diabetes, in multi-ethnic populations.

LLHRG are one of the most prestigious Lifestyle as Medicine research groups in the UK, making a major contribution to the University of Leicester’s success at being ranked second overall in the Sport and Exercise Sciences unit of assessment (UoA24) within Research Excellent Framework (REF) 2021, and first for output quality (out 61 institutions nationally; Research Excellence Framework 2021 results | University of Leicester). This success has led to £14 million in new funding from Research England’s Expanding Excellence in England scheme which will enable LLHRG to expand. This includes 20 new staff members across academic, teaching, research, community engagement and administrative positions, in addition to 12 new PhD students. This expanding team will be supported by new office and research spaces within the Leicester General Hospital.

Our research encompasses epidemiology, experimental medicine, clinical trials and implementation, and applications are welcome across these areas of expertise.

About you

As a Teaching and Research Fellow, you will have a proven track record of conducting excellent research and a growing independent reputation and profile in your field, complementing our diverse multidisciplinary expertise and playing a key role in contributing to the development and success of LLHRG leading up to REF2029 and beyond. You will also have some demonstrable experience of delivering high-quality teaching and student supervision at postgraduate level, or extensive experience of teaching and supervision at undergraduate level.

We particularly welcome applications from experts within the fields of exercise physiology (including mechanisms/basic science), 24-hour lifestyle behaviours (including sleep, sedentary behaviour, physical activity and interplay with nutrition), mHealth, implementation science, multiple long-term conditions, physiotherapy or clinical trials.

Applicants are expected to be able to demonstrate credible plans for producing world-leading outputs in terms of originality, significance and rigour with potential to strengthen LLHRGs future submissions to the Research Excellence Framework (REF), along with the vision, understanding and relevant expertise to contribute to module/course development for teaching in the area of lifestyle as medicine.

Please see the accompanying job summary form for full details of the role and responsibilities.

Additional information

Informal enquiries are welcome and should be made to Professor Thomas Yates (LLHRG Director) ty20@leicester.ac.uk or Professor Charlotte Edwardson (LLHRG Deputy Director) ce95@leicester.ac.uk.

Applications for job share or part time positions will be considered. 

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 because the appointee will have substantial access to young people and/or vulnerable adults. Therefore, an appointment to this post will be subject to checking and appropriate clearance through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). 

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