Casual Research Associate (Evaluation) - Physical Activity Clinical Champions

Casual Worker:   Maximum 37 hours per week, July - Sept 2026 (12 weeks)

Fixed Salary: £13.45 (+ holiday pay) per hour

Closing date:  Sunday 5^th July 2026 at 23:30

The Role

The Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre is excited to be recruiting for a Research Assistant to work within the Physical Activity Clinical Champions Programme (PACC), where you will play a key role in helping deliver and evaluate this highly valued training programme.

Working with the Lead Academic you will support the implementation of the programme’s evaluation framework including in depth evaluation of key innovation workstreams: – Place based working, educational approach and workforce development. You will gain an insight into the prevention agenda within the NHS and the University’s innovative work in Physical Activity and Healthcare.

PACC Physical Activity Clinical Champions

Funded by Sport England until March 2028, Physical Activity Clinical Champions is an initiative that offers free clinician to clinician training to people working in healthcare, which supports them to improve patient care and outcomes.

PACC training was initially developed as part of the Moving Health Professionals Programme, run by Sport England and Public Health England (now OHID). In June 2023, a consortium consisting of The Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre, Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine UK and Intelligent Health took over the support and running of the programme to enable a sustainable ongoing platform for the future.

The PACC programme provides free face to face (online or in person) training to people working in healthcare, and this is delivered nationwide by a number of different physical activity champions. The new model which is currently in development aims to provide this training, whilst also developing resources and training in places throughout the UK.

Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre  

Sheffield Hallam University’s, Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC), is a world-leading research and innovation centre for physical activity. It 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 SME businesses
• The local community within the Sheffield City Region which is a microcosm of the UK population in terms of its cultural and ethnic diversity

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