Research Associate

This post is full time and fixed term for up to 9 months.

We have an opportunity for a Research Associate to make a leading contribution to a project Joining up services and public sector productivity: collaboration and integration of work, data and service provision working with Professor Bridgette Wessels.

The project is addressing the ways public services are focussing on joining up services to enhance service provision and improve productivity to achieve better outcomes for service users.  It focuses on the collaboration and integration aspects of joining up health and social care services, which involves service processes, tasks and data. Working with Glasgow Council and Health and Social Partnership, the project will take a collaborative and participative approach based on workshops, reflective journals and feedback surveys. It will produce a methodology to support collaboration and integration in joining up services aided by productivity thinking.

The successful candidate will be expected to manage the day to day running of the project, to work closely with Glasgow City Council and the Health and Social Care Partnership. They should have research skills for the approach noted above and be able to work collaboratively with service providers. They should be proficient in analysing data and in generating models and guides for joining up services in the research process as well as delivering final outputs of papers and reports.

Informal enquiries should be directed to Professor Bridgette Wessels, Bridgette.wessels@glasgow.ac.uk.

To apply online at: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research-associate-108

Closing date: Monday 5^th January 2026 at 23:45

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