Researcher

Fixed term for 18 months

Full time – 37 hours per week

Closing date: 27/07/2025 at 23:30

The Role

This role is an exciting opportunity to be involved in two projects based at the Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre. A NIHR-funded project will examine the effect of pre-cancer surgery weight and body composition changes on patient outcomes. The successful applicant will be responsible for data collection on this project, including taking body composition and shape measurements.

The second project is Active Together which helps patients who have cancer by providing physical activity, nutritional and psychological support before, during and after treatment. As a researcher, you will have the opportunity to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team to deliver a mixed methods evaluation of Active Together.

The Department

The Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC) is a world leading centre for physical activity research and innovation, based at the Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park in Attercliffe. The AWRC provides business, industry and the public sector with access to state-of-the-art, fully instrumented indoor and outdoor laboratories and a team of over 70 researchers from multi-academic disciplines delivering collaborative projects. 

As a centrepiece of Sheffield’s Olympic Legacy Park, the work of the AWRC encourages and enables people to be more active and adopt healthier lifestyles, delivering innovations that help people move by bringing together:  

• Multi-disciplinary academic expertise from sports and materials engineering, psychology, health and social care and software development
• Commercial partners including global businesses and dynamic SMEs
• The local community within the Sheffield City Region which is a microcosm of the UK population in terms of its cultural and ethnic diversity.

These innovations generate benefits for the entire population through increasing physical activity for people with sedentary lifestyles and those recovering from serious illness. The centre also develops technical services and products, taking ideas from concept to commercialisation through processes of co-design and coproduction between the citizens of the Sheffield City Region, charities and business and industry. This innovation pathway is supported by academic research to provide confidence that these innovations not only address market needs, but also generate positive health impacts through increasing physical activity. 

The AWRC is the research hub for the National Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine (NCSEM) in Sheffield, a 2012 Olympic Legacy project which co-locates clinical services and physical activity facilities to help people with a medical need to exercise more easily. It has neighbouring facilities in the locale including the English Institute of Sport, the National Centre of Excellence for Food Engineering and a university technical college specialising in health, sport and technology for 14– 19-year-olds. 

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