Research Fellow

Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £47,389 to £56,535 with potential progression once in post to £63,606

Hours: Part Time (18.75 hours per week)

Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract

Closes: 20th September 2026

Please note: We are advertising for both a Research Fellow Grade 7 (107826) and a Senior Research Fellow Grade 8 (107812), however there is only 1 post available

The post is situated in the Intellectual Disabilities Research Institute (IDRIS). The successful applicant will be employed to work on the BEAMS trial which is a multicentre two-arm parallel randomised controlled trial with internal pilot that seeks to assess the clinical and cost-effectiveness of an adapted psychological therapy for people with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities who have anxiety disorders funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The intervention was previously tested within a feasibility study. (https://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/hta/MWTQ5721). The trial is led by Professor Peter Langdon together with the Cardiff Centre for Trials Research (CTR).

Role Summary

• Plan, design and help co-ordinate the BEAMS-ID Trial in collaboration with Cardiff CTR and our Trial Manager
• Initiate and conduct original research which has measurable outcomes and is reflected in a growing national and often incipient international reputation
• Contribute to the development of research and participant recruitment strategies
• Publish results of own research
• Supervise PhD students and research associates
• Capturing data from participants and their families
• Contribute to the Department/School through management/leadership
• Develop and make substantial contributions to knowledge transfer, enterprise, business engagement, public engagement activities, widening participation, schools outreach or similar activities at Department/School level or further within the University

Person Specification

• A PhD relevant to the research area (or near completion), or equivalent PhD- level qualifications
• Extensive research experience and scholarship within subject specialism. This includes experience of undertaking research involving people with intellectual disabilities
• Practice-based experience of working with people with intellectual disabilities and their families
• Experience and achievement reflected in a growing reputation
• Extensive experience and demonstrated success in planning, undertaking research, and project management to deliver high quality results including experience of working on clinical trials and other large research projects
• Experience of utilising the Mental Capacity Act, 2005, within research
• Extensive experience of applying and/or developing and devising successful models, techniques and methods including multi-level or linear mixed effects modelling to analyse research data with variability at different levels or clustering
• Knowledge of missing data analysis using multiple imputation
• Experience and/or knowledge of health economics analyses within clinical trials
• Experience and/or knowledge of process evaluation within clinical trials
• Experience in training staff to work with to project protocols including data collection
• Extensive experience and achievement in knowledge transfer, enterprise and similar activity
• Ability to identify issues with the potential to impact on protected groups and take appropriate action
• Other relevant criteria from our equality and diversity knowledge, skills and experience document

Informal enquires can be made to Peter Langdon, email: p.langdon@bham.ac.uk

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