Research Associate: Community Public Health and Humanities

University of Oxford

Concerning the function

We now have an thrilling alternative for a 12-month 0.5FTE part-time, fixed-term analysis appointment, in Group Public Well being and Humanities. The publish holder will probably be a member of a disparate analysis community working independently, and proactively, with Oxfordshire Nation Council Public Well being Dept (OCCPH) to judge novel community-based programmes that deal with well being inequalities. This function is a joint appointment between Humanities and Medical Sciences, reporting to Professor Erica Charters with dotted line to Professor Trish Greenhalgh, and Kate Austin, Public Well being Principal, Oxfordshire Nation Council.

The Position

The profitable candidate will work with OCCPH and wider PHIF programme officers in gathering proof concerning the CHDO programme and ICB’s Properly Collectively Programme whereas managing personal educational analysis and administrative actions. It will contain small scale mission administration, to co-ordinate a number of elements of labor to fulfill deadlines. They may also contextualize proof inside historic and cultural approaches to neighborhood and public well being; consider the impression of those programmes on Oxfordshire communities, making use of qualitative and quantitative analysis, reviewing and refining theories as applicable; and produce a findings report geared toward coverage and choice makers, framed inside considerations over the allocation of sources into preventative well being interventions and neighborhood well being inequalities.

About you

You’ll maintain a doctorate in a related area or proof {that a} doctorate is near completion, along with related expertise in a related topic (public well being, well being sciences, neighborhood well being, world well being, or associated evaluation methodologies). The profitable applicant could have excellent communication and interpersonal expertise, with a confirmed monitor report of working with others (educational and/or neighborhood companions) and a willingness and functionality to undertake area work inside Oxfordshire. Expertise of delivering and/or evaluating community-based public well being/social interventions, and expertise of and familiarity with key methodologies of neighborhood well being and/or social medication can be important. Familiarity with the construction and funding of public well being in England can be fascinating.

Software course of

For a casual dialogue about this chance, please contact Erica Charters, Professor of the International Historical past of Drugs and Tutorial Lead of Medical Humanities, at erica.charters@historical past.ox.ac.uk. All sensible and procedural queries ought to be despatched to our recruitments group: recruitments@historical past.ox.ac.uk. All enquiries will probably be handled in strict confidence; they won’t kind a part of the choice choice. 

As a part of the web utility course of, you must present a supporting assertion setting out the way you meet the choice standards, a curriculum vitae and the names and speak to particulars of two referees.

Solely purposes submitted on-line and obtained earlier than midday Monday fifteenth January 2024 will probably be thought of.

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