Fellowship Opportunity in Psychological Stress – Manchester, United Kingdom

As we celebrate our 200th year of Manchester Met, we are delighted to be launching our ‘Third Century Fellowship Scheme’.

The Fellowship Scheme is aimed at exceptional researchers, in the early stages of their post-doctoral career, who aim to make their mark in the field of independent research. You will have extensive experience and a notable track record of research outputs in your area of research.

What are we offering as part of the Third Century Fellowship Scheme?

By joining our Fellowship Scheme, you’ll play a leading part in our global research offering and join our community, working collaboratively across multidisciplinary and diverse teams with state-of-the-art facilities and work environment.

Successful applicants will benefit from:

• An exceptional research environment and facilities to support YOUR ambitions and research interest
• A competitive salary, excellent pension and holiday entitlement, enhanced family leave and more
• A three-year development programme, underpinned by the Leadership Lens on the Vitae Researcher Development Framework, a well-established sector-wide tool for the career and professional development of research leaders.
• Mentorship throughout the programme and access to coaching sessions
• Diverse teams, colleagues and staff networks

During the term of the fellowship, you will be publishing internationally excellent and world-leading outputs and will be pursuing external funding opportunities to realise your future research ambitions. You will also have the opportunity, when relevant, to prepare and deliver short courses.

The Scheme begins with an initial appointment to a fixed-term post with the expectation to transition to a permanent Senior Lecturer or as a Reader, after three years, dependant on your performance and potential as assessed through the scheme.

These fellowship opportunities are being offered across our four faculties: Science & Engineering, Arts & Humanities, Business & Law and Health & Education. We will be making up to 15 appointments onto the cohort, based on application and assessment performance, and best fit to our preferred areas of research, across our four faculties.

Further details about the fellowship and research areas can be found here

You can explore our Fellowship Opportunity in Psychological Stress, below.

Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan:

Research in the Department of Psychology aims to deliver innovative, evidence-based and impactful solutions that facilitate and optimise human adaptation to our rapidly changing world. In REF21 staff from the department were returned in UoA3, UoA20 and UoA24 which were rated top 15, top 16 and top 6 for research power respectively by Times Higher Education. We are both teaching- and research-intensive, with a clear focus on four research areas:

• Psychological Mechanisms Underlying Child and Adolescent Mental Health
• Adaptation to Complex and Demanding Environments
• Cognition and Mobility Across the Life Course
• Interventions that Promote Health and Behavioural Change

Research on psychological stress cuts across all these four themes but we expect applications to be predominantly focused on exploring adaptation to complex and demanding environments. In this area, research is particularly focused on the challenge of increasingly complex, fast moving, technologically driven working environments.  We have excellent links across a range of demanding work environments including sport, defence and security, corporates, emergency medicine and space travel. With international partners, we take a biopsychosocial approach to exploring the impact of stress on health and performance in these demanding environments and as such we would particularly welcome applications from individuals with an interest and experience in applying biopsychosocial approach to the understanding psychological stress.

• About the role:
• To undertake world-leading and internationally excellent research using latest and innovative methodologies, as relevant in your area of research.
• To prepare, present and publish research outputs through the appropriate forums e.g. research workshops, conferences, seminars, exhibitions, portfolios, academic journals etc.
• To develop ideas for generating income to ensure the continued success and growth of research portfolio.
• To disseminate findings of research widely to further the institution’s standing in the HE and research community and strengthen the impact of the research.
• To engage in scholarly activities conducive to a long-term successful academic career that will support and enhance the research culture within the Department/ School, Faculty and University.
• About the candidate:
• With a doctoral-level qualification in a relevant discipline, you will develop your own body of work in the broad area of psychological stress, using a biopsychosocial approach. You will be supported to help develop cutting edge research with focus on adaptation to complex and demanding environments.
• Requirements:
• Doctoral level qualification in a related research area and discipline.
• Possess breadth or depth of specialist knowledge and demonstrate potential for research independence.
• Excellent track record of relevant research outputs.
• Significant research experience in the chosen field of research, which should include where appropriate:
• leading the work of a team, co-ordinating effort and resources to meet objectives
• developing partnerships with internal and external agencies
• preparing funding proposals and applications to external bodies
• using initiative, creativity and judgement to develop appropriate approaches to research
• synthesising complex data from different sources and communicating findings via written reports and articles
• presenting at national and/or international research meetings
• supervising student work and providing appropriate support and feedback.
• Experience of managing and monitoring performance of research projects in multi-disciplinary teams.
• Ability to manage projects involving academic institutions and funding bodies.

Please refer to the Job Description & Person Specification for a full list of essential & desirable criteria.

Academic Contact: Prof Marc Jones (m.jones@mmu.ac.uk) to discuss the fellowship opportunity in detail.

Closing Date: 29 May 2024

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us on researchfellowships@mmu.ac.uk

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