Bridging Fellow in Medical Humanities - Durham, United Kingdom - Durham University

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Bridging Fellow in Medical Humanities
(Job Number
: )**Institute of Medical Humanities

Grade 7:

£37,099
£39,347 per annum

Fixed Term - Full Time

Contract Duration: 1 year

Contracted Hours per Week: 35

Closing Date: 15-Apr-2024, 5:59:00 PM

Disclosure and Barring Service Requirement:
Not Applicable.

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 want our University to be a place where people can be free to be themselves, no matter what their identity or background.

Together, we celebrate difference, value one another and are each responsible for creating an inclusive community that is respectful and fair for all.

Find out more about the benefits of working at the University and what it is like to live and work in the Durham area on our Why Durham? information page.

The Department
These posts are 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.

The Role
Applications are invited for the role of Bridging Fellow in Medical Humanities.

Bridging Fellowships provide an intensive career development opportunity for three recently completed PhD graduates to publish findings from their doctoral research, expand their skills and networks, and prepare their next major research projects.

Bridging Fellowships are so-named because they are intended to constitute a bridge between doctoral research and future careers.

All Bridging Fellows will be appointed to the Institute for Medical Humanities as well as one of the academic Departments listed above.

Day-to-day, Bridging Fellows will be based initially in one of the Discovery Research Platform's six methods Labs. They will be encouraged to engage with research and activity across the Platform.

Lab activities may include but are not limited to: regular participation in Lab 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 Lab and Platform more broadly.

Bridging Fellows will be supported to produce outputs from existing research, as well as to collaborate with other Labs and Researchers across the Platform.

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

These roles offer an exciting opportunity to make an important contribution to the development of research and methodological innovation within the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities, while allowing you excellent opportunities to develop your career in an exciting and progressive institution.

All staff employed in the DRP-IMH have dedicated time for professional development and can access a wealth of existing and bespoke training opportunities in consultation with Platform Leads.

Bridging Fellow in Medical Humanities

Eligibility:

Responsibilities:

To publish high quality outputs, including papers for submission to peer reviewed journals and papers for presentation at conferences and workshops under the direction of the Lab lead
To prepare and deliver presentations on research outputs/activities to audiences which m