Post Doctoral Research Associate in Health - Durham, United Kingdom - Durham University

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Post Doctoral Research Associate in Health Inequalities
(Job Number
: )**Institute of Medical Humanities

Grade 7:

£37,099
£39,347 per annum

Fixed Term - Full Time

Contract Duration: 36 months

Contracted Hours per Week: 35

Closing Date: 28-Apr-2024, 5:59:00 PM

Disclosure and Barring Service Requirement:
Not Applicable.

Job Title:
Post Doctoral Research Associate in Health Inequalities

Department:
Institute for Medical Humanities and Department of Sociology***
Grade:Grade 7

Working arrangements:
Full time (35 hours per week)

The University
At Durham University we are proud of our people.

A globally outstanding centre of educational excellence, a collegiate community of extraordinary people, a unique and historic setting - Durham is a university like no other.

We believe that inspiring our people to do outstanding things at Durham enables Durham people to do outstanding things professionally and personally.

Across the University we have a huge variety of roles and career opportunities, which together make us a large and successful community, which is a key hub of activity within our region and nationally.

We would be thrilled if you would consider joining our thriving University. Further information about the University can be found here

The Department
This post is part of an exciting expansion of medical humanities at Durham funded by the Wellcome Trust.

The Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities (DRP-MH) at Durham University aims to empower health and wellbeing researchers from different sectors and disciplines to co-develop new and experimental approaches to tackling health challenges, including those arising at the intersections of mental health and health inequalities.

The Platform will create space for experimentation and intellectual risk-taking, support networks globally, and revolutionize the research capacity of the field of Medical Humanities.

It will enable large-scale collaborations with community, creative, health and voluntary sector organisations, and involve over 200,000 global academics and lived experience researchers through international partnerships with leading Universities in the USA, Sweden, the Netherlands, South Africa and China.

Platform researchers come from a wide range of disciplines including Literary Studies, Psychology, Philosophy, History, Sport and Exercise Science, Education and Sociology.

The DRP-MH supports the Institute's vision to improve human health through research on hidden experience.

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Social Sciences with a particular emphasis on experiences of health and illness in marginalised and/or socioeconomically deprived communities The post holder will be responsible for designing and conducting research as part of The Practice, one of three collaborative Sites hosted by the Platform.

The Practice is a partnership with St Anthony's Health Centre, a GP practice based in Walker, Newcastle Upon Tyne.

The Practice will develop new insights into intractable questions around health inequalities, mental health, and the treatment of complex multimorbidities.

The postholder will work closely with Site leads Dr. Jesse Proudfoot and Dr. Jonathan Coates (a GP at St. Anthony's Health Centre and In-Practice Fellow at the IMH) to design and conduct new research at The Practice, facilitate new projects from other Platform team members for the site, and support collaborations with other researchers and stakeholders.

Practice site activities may include but are not limited to regular participation in Site meetings, workshops and other events; collaboration in methodological innovation with interdisciplinary and cross-sector partners through a range of modalities; the design and delivery of pilot and proof-of-concept studies; and taking shared responsibility for sustaining a flourishing research culture in the Site and Platform more broadly.

The post holder will also be expected and supported to collaborate with other Sites and Researchers across the Platform.

Regular participation (in-person as well as virtual) at Site, Lab and Platform activities, as agreed with the Line Manager is essential.

The research project benefits from being embedded in a GP practice serving a socioeconomically deprived community, affiliated with the Deep End Network of surgeries, as well as secondary care addiction services.

It is therefore ideally placed to explore critical, and poorly understood aspects of health inequalities including the medicalisation of distress (from both patient and clinician perspectives), substance use and addiction (in particular how patients with addictions navigate services) among other issues.

The project aims remain broad at this stage and are open to accommodating relevant interests from the incoming applicant. In general, the project is interested in deepening understandings of health inequalities and experiences o