Part-Time Postdoctoral Fellow — Global Health & Nutrition Research

Opportunita; Exeter; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 49,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel opportunities

Wellcome Trust funded

Job summary

University of Exeter invites applications for a part-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join the PHOENix project (Planetary Health Optimisation for Enhancing Nutrition and Food Security Through School Feeding Programmes in Egypt). The UK-based fellow will lead realist evaluation, coordinate UK-Egypt teams, and drive ethical approvals for fieldwork, with travel to Egypt as required.

The role is funded by Wellcome and fixed-term to 31 December 2029, with a salary of £44,352 pro rata per annum.

Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent qualification in relevant field.
• Ability to develop research objectives and proposals.
• Experience in interdisciplinary research and team leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day research on realist evaluation, combining qualitative interviews with nutritional, environmental and agroecological data.
• Coordinate and support a UK- and Egypt-based team of researchers and technicians.
• Organise advisory group meetings and work with partners in Egypt; lead ethics applications for research with participants.
• Help design and run participatory and creative co-production activities; write and publish scholarly papers.

Education

PhD or equivalent in public health, nutrition, food systems, social science or related field

Job description

University of Exeter invites applications for a part-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join the PHOENix project (Planetary Health Optimisation for Enhancing Nutrition and Food Security Through School Feeding Programmes in Egypt). The UK-based fellow will lead realist evaluation, coordinate UK-Egypt teams, and drive ethical approvals for fieldwork, with travel to Egypt as required.

The role is funded by Wellcome and fixed-term to 31 December 2029, with a salary of £44,352 pro rata per annum.