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School Health Research Network (SHRN) Managers

Cardiff University School of Social Sciences is seeking to recruit Managers to work in the School Health Research Network programme, that is located within the Centre for Development, Evaluation, Complexity and Implementation in Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer) research centre.

As the SHRN Manager you will be the University specialist advising, guiding, leading and developing the research/policy/practice interface involving the University, schools across Wales, partners in Welsh Government and Public Health Wales and national, regional and local authority stakeholders. You will ensure the ongoing success and strategic aims of the School Health Research Network by providing support for the SHRN Director and developing transdisciplinary capacity for research excellence, which contributes, to the reputation of DECIPHer, the School of Social Sciences and the University and inspire others to do the same.

There are two positions available, both full time posts, 35hrs per week, available immediately and fixed term to the 31st March 2024.

Salary: £43,434 – £50,296 per annum (Grade 7)

Date advert posted: Thursday, 16 June 2022

Closing date: Thursday, 14 July 2022

Responsible to: Professor Simon Murphy, DECIPHer Centre Director

For further information contact Sara Jones, Centre Manager, DECIPHer. JonesASM@cardiff.ac.uk

Interviews will be held on Thursday 21st July 2022.

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DECIPHer’s multidisciplinary community provides an excellent environment for public health researchers at all career stages to thrive. They join a world leading public health research centre, benefit from our unique skills and resources, strong relationships with other DECIPHer institutions and an extensive network of policy and practice partners, and DECIPHer’s tailored capacity development programme for researchers. DECIPHer staff are also part of a wider community conducting high-quality public health research.

DECIPHer aims to lead collaboration and knowledge exchange between researchers, policy-makers and practitioners in public health improvement.

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.

Input from policy and practice ensures that the research evidence we produce is communicated in the most useful way.

For more on how DECIPHer builds collaboration into its work, and how it strengthens the work we do, see our collaboration case studies below.

Ideas for DECIPHer research projects come from academia, policy and practice. Research ideas are developed into funded projects through research development groups – small working groups, typically consisting of researchers, policy-makers and practitioners.

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.

We are always keen to discuss new research ideas and possibilities for collaboration. If you work in public health policy or practice and would like to be involved in research relevant to DECIPHer’s aims, we would be pleased to hear from you. Please email us at DECIPHer@Cardiff.ac.uk or contact the programme lead for your area of interest to discuss how we can work together.