Research Fellow (Health Psychology)

About the Role

Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, you will provide health psychology support to the delivery of research activity for the NIHR-funded Programme Grant for Applied Research -IMproving outcomes for ovarian cancer Patients by Refining Evidenced based tools that drive Surgical Standardisation – Part 2 (IMPRESS-2).

You will be required to undertake the following key activities:

• Engage with clinicians and patients in a collaborative co-design process to develop and test (using health psychology theory and methods) innovative, evidence- and theory-based tools, including:
•  (i) Treatment decision support tailored to those diagnosed with ovarian cancer 
•  (ii) Shared decision-making skills training for healthcare professionals. 
• Co-deliver evidence- and theory-based shared decision-making skills training to clinicians directly involved in the care/treatment of people diagnosed with ovarian cancer and provide health psychology input to evaluation of training and development of fidelity measures.
• Play a key role in contributing health psychology expertise (theory and methods) to the development and roll-out of a randomised controlled trial and mixed methods evaluation.
• Identify research funding opportunities and develop appropriate applications to support both individual and collaborative research initiatives.
• Disseminate the results of research and scholarly activity through publications, development of learning materials, conference presentations, and exhibit work at appropriate events via the media.

For further information see the job description .

This is a fixed term role for 5 years.

About the Team

This Research Project is being delivered within the Department of Nursing, Midwifery and Health:  https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/academic-departments/nursing-midwifery-health/

About You

Applicants should hold a PhD or equivalent and have demonstrable specialist expert knowledge in health psychology theory and methods. 

Further information about the requirements of the role is available in the person specification .

If you would like an informal discussion about the role, please contact Professor Darren Flynn via email: darren.flynn@northumbria.ac.uk

We welcome applications from the UK and across the world. Visit our web pages for details about Relocation Assistance .

Apply Before: 10/07/2025, 23:59