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VACANCY: Senior Lecturer, Social Sciences

Cardiff University School of Social Sciences is seeking to recruit a Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences with a social policy focus and a particular interest in understanding Young People’s Mental Health. You will contribute to the research performance of the Wolfson Centre for Young people’s Mental Health and the research record of the School of Social Sciences through commitment to carrying out research leading to the publication of work in high-quality journals. To pursue excellence in research, teaching and enterprise and to inspire others to do the same, delivering high-quality and research-led teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

For the first five years the post will be funded entirely by the Wolfson Centre for Young People’s Mental Health, to be established October 2020, and you will play a key role in implementing the centres programme of research. The Centre is a collaboration between the National Centre for Mental Health and the DECIPHer research centre in Cardiff University and Swansea University. The post is located within DECIPHer in the School of Social Sciences, and will primarily support the work-stream focused on mental health in schools led by Prof Simon Murphy & Dr Graham Moore, though with close collaboration across work streams.

After the first five years the post will be funded entirely by the School of Social Sciences where the successful candidate will take his or her place as an academic member of staff, contributing to teaching, research and scholarship.

This post is open-ended and full time (35 hours per week), available from 1st January 2021.

Salary: £51,034 – £59,135 per annum (Grade 8).

Responsible to Professor Graham Moore.

For further details contact Professor Graham Moore, MooreG@cardiff.ac.uk. Tel 029 2087 5387

Closing date: Thursday, 8 October 2020.

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Our policy and practice collaborators have unique experience and expertise. Using this throughout the research process helps us to do better research, and allows the evidence we produce to be used more easily to improve public health.

Co-producing research ideas and projects means these address the questions that are relevant and important to policy and practice.

Working together to plan and conduct the research helps ensure it is carried out in a way that is acceptable to policy-makers and practitioners – the people who will ultimately be using the research.

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A research development group crystallises the initial idea into a specific research question, develops an appropriate research design, and bids for grant funding. This enables policy and practice partners to be fully involved in developing DECIPHer research from the very beginning.

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