We are seeking to appoint a Post-Doctoral Research assistant to work with us in the Centre for Health Promotion Research (CHPR) https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/research/centre-for-health-promotion/. You will work across our portfolio of impactful research on promoting health equity and community health and wellbeing. This will include all types of research methods, including qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis, mixed methods evaluations, participatory research and evidence synthesis. You will also support our activity in identifying and producing research applications for funders and producing reports, journal articles and other research outputs. Training and support will be provided, but it will be expected that you will have previous experience and evidence of autonomous academic work.
This is an outstanding opportunity to develop your research career, working on world leading research programmes in health promotion and public health. We are looking for an enthusiastic person who will work effectively with the team of researchers and staff at Leeds Beckett University and with external partners.
The candidate will be located within the School of Health at Leeds Beckett University (City campus).
You will have a postgraduate degree in an area related to health/ public health and some experience of undertaking research as part of a team. Ideally you will have experience of qualitative and quantitative research methods and of literature reviews.
The person appointed should be able to start work on 1 August 2023 and this post is fixed term until 31 July 2026.
To arrange an informal discussion about this post, please contact Professor Anne-Marie Bagnall: [email protected]
Closing date: 22 May 2023 (23:59) Please note that you will not be able to edit or submit a part-completed application form after the closing date.
Please note that this post is subject to a criminal records check (Enhanced level).
Working here means you’ll also have access to a wide range of benefits including our generous pension schemes, excellent holiday entitlements, flexible working, reduced study fees, subsidised fitness facilities and a lot more.
We welcome applications from all individuals and particularly from black and minority ethnic candidates as members of these groups are currently under-represented at this level of post. All appointments will be based on merit.