Research Associate - Mental Health and Return to Work trial

School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

(Full-time or Part-time; Fixed-term to 31 March 2024

The PROWORK Mental Health and Return to Work trial has been running for 12-months and, following a short break, will resume the trialing of return-to-work toolkits.

The successful applicant will continue to support two organisations in their trialing of PROWORK. You will also recruit two further organisations from the Midlands for comparison and continue to collect data on the context, policies and constraints of implementing PROWORK.

Applicants should have experience of recruiting organisations and conducting and evaluating interventions. You will have a PhD in health psychology, occupational psychology, business, management or equivalent.

This full-time post is offered on a fixed-term contract until 31 March 2024 with an immediate start. Hybrid working, flexible working and applications for part-time and/or job share are welcomed for this post.

Informal enquiries should be directed to Fehmidah Munir, Professor of Health Psychology, via email to f.munir@lboro.ac.uk or by telephone on 01509 228228

Loughborough University is committed to allowing its employees to work dynamically with a combination of working on campus and remotely, where possible. This has been identified as a role that could work dynamically and, if successful, your line manager will discuss these informal arrangements with you. Please note that there is a general expectation that the successful candidate will spend the majority of time working on the University campus (further information is available here).

Closing date for applications is 27 February 2023.

Further details can be found here.