Postgraduate Research Assistant

Part Time, Fixed Term - Research

This post is part-time 0.6 fte for a period of 12 months, ideally starting in December 2026 (or as soon as possible thereafter).

The School of Sport, Nutrition and Allied Health Professionals is looking to appoint a suitably qualified individual as a Research Assistant to work with a project team based at Oxford Brookes University, University College London and Lund University, Sweden. You will be involved at the start of an exciting new project to adapt an evidence-based Occupational Therapy-specific intervention which was developed in Sweden and is widely used in their mental health services to the UK.

The funded research project aims to work in collaboration with co-developers, occupational therapists and service users to:

1) To explore, and identify in what ways the Balancing Everyday Life (BEL) intervention manual should be modified for delivery in the UK healthcare context.

2) To elucidate and refine the Logic Model for the UK version of BEL manual.

3) To conduct a preliminary evaluation of modifications with adults diagnosed with a mental health population and using mental health services and make required modifications to form the BEL UK version.

4) To cross-culturally develop a UK English language version of the SDO-OB measure for use in mental health services in the UK.

With the team, you will support the preparation for and co-delivering of focus groups with occupational therapists and service users. You will be involved in completing outcome measures with research participants and conducting one-to-one interviews. You will be involved in both quantitative and qualitative data analysis and preparing articles for publication.

Applications are invited from individuals who have experience of mixed methods health or social care research, excellent communication and time-management skills, and must have completed.

You will be contributing to the implementation and day-to-day running of the research project. You will be working alongside other members of the project team and project collaborators. You will have organisational responsibility for the project, but no direct line management responsibilities.

The ability to manage your own workload and to work as part of a team are essential.

The ideal applicant would have:

• A good degree
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent organisational skills
• Previous experience of working within a health or social care research setting would be an advantage.

For further information, please contact Jackie Parsonage-Harrison on jparsonage@brookes.ac.uk

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