Research Fellow in Qualitative Methods

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Psychological Interventions
Location:  Guildford
Wage: 
£36,024 to £37,099
each year
Fastened Time period (-Aug 2026)
Submit Sort:  Full Time
Closing Date: 
23.59 hours GMT on Monday 26 February 2024
Reference:  063023-R

The College of Surrey is a worldwide neighborhood of concepts and other people, devoted to life-changing schooling and analysis.

We’re formidable and have a daring imaginative and prescient of what we wish to obtain – shaping ourselves into probably the greatest universities on the earth, which we’re reaching by means of the skills and endeavour of each worker.  

Our tradition empowers individuals to realize this goal and to collectively, and individually, make an actual distinction.  

The function

We wish to recruit an skilled qualitative post-doctoral researcher with an curiosity in ethnic inequalities in psychological well being. The researcher will be a part of a pleasant staff of quantitative and qualitative researchers on an NIHR funded challenge to discover inequalities in antidepressant prescribing in main look after the South Asian diaspora. Duties will embrace participant recruitment, information assortment, holding meticulous data of participant retention, working with our PPI and governance representatives, information evaluation, and writing for publication. The function will embrace recruiting from various communities.

That is an thrilling alternative to work with neighborhood stakeholders, sufferers, and first care professionals to embed turn into care practices for these dwelling with melancholy.

About you

You must have accomplished your PhD in a associated discipline, corresponding to psychology or the social sciences. You must have expertise of conducting and analysing qualitative analysis in neighborhood and/or NHS settings. Information of information governance and analysis ethics is crucial.

The postholder will likely be required to construct working relationships with neighborhood organisations and NHS websites so as to help information assortment, subsequently expertise of working with various communities and/or talking a South Asian language(s) along with English can be a bonus.  

What we will provide

Along with your wage, you’ll obtain pension contributions, a beneficiant annual depart entitlement, relocation help the place applicable, a horny analysis surroundings, and entry to quite a lot of workers improvement alternatives. Moreover, our profit packages embrace childcare help and discounted membership to College sports activities services.

Additional Info

To use please submit a CV and canopy letter detailing your motivation in making use of for the function. Additionally, you will be requested some temporary questions to assist us perceive your suitability for the function.

All casual enquiries in regards to the submit needs to be directed to Dr Lydia Poole ([email protected]).

The College of Surrey is dedicated to offering an inclusive surroundings that provides equal alternatives for all.  We place nice worth on range and are looking for to extend the range inside our neighborhood.  Subsequently we notably encourage functions from under-represented teams, corresponding to individuals from Black, Asian and minority ethnic teams and other people with disabilities.

Please be aware, it’s College Coverage to supply a beginning wage equal to Stage 3.6 (£34,980) to profitable candidates who’ve been awarded, however are but to obtain, their PhD certificates.  As soon as the unique PhD certificates has been submitted to the native HR Division, the wage will likely be elevated to Stage 4.1 (£36,024).