Researcher

Old Road Campus, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7LF

The Nuffield Department of Population Health contains world renowned population health research groups and provides an excellent environment for multi-disciplinary research and teaching. 

We are seeking a Researcher to work on the Wellcome-funded Environmentally Sustainable Health Research project (SHARE) at the Ethox Centre. The SHARE project seeks to explore what it means for health research practices and policies to be environmentally responsible. It takes an empirical and decolonial approach to this question by engaging with researchers and groups from different epistemic, cultural and geographical contexts and asking critical questions around fairness of environmentally responsible practices in the context of global health research as well as limits of top-down and compliance-based approaches. 

This is an exciting role that involves developing and delivering conceptual and normative guidance to environmentally sustainable practices and policies in health research. We are particularly interested in conceptual and normative approaches that draw on feminist, relational, non-western or non-anthropocentric approaches. The post holder will be working closely with Associate Professor Federica Lucivero and the project collaborators in the UK, India, Kenya, Ghana and Brazil. The role will include undertaking reviews and analyses of relevant literature, engaging with the analysis of qualitative interviews and research, identify relevant conceptual and/or normative frameworks, actively contributing to the co-designing practical resources with research communities and drafting papers. 

You will be responsible for managing your academic research and administrative activities, adapting existing and developing new concepts in relation to the qualitative empirical data gathered in the project, as well as contributing to ideas for new research projects. 

You will hold (or be close to completion of) a PhD/DPhil in (bio)ethics, philosophy, sociology, anthropology or other relevant subject. You will have some experience and sufficient specialist knowledge in the discipline to work effectively within the research programme. You will have experience with applying conceptual reflection to empirical data. You will also have experience of independently managing a discrete area of a research project, and have excellent communication skills.

This is a full time (part time considered), fixed term post for 3 years.

The closing date for applications is noon on 29 October 2025. 

You will be required to upload a CV and a cover letter as part of your online application. The cover letter should clearly describe how you meet each of the selection criteria listed in the job description.

Contact Person: HR Recruitment

Pay Scale: RESEARCH GRADE 7

Contact Email: recruit@ndph.ox.ac.uk

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