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Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (CPEC)
Research Officer in Social Care Evaluation
Salary from £37,197 to £44,802 pa inclusive with potential to progress to £48,168 pa inclusive of London allowance
The Care Policy and Evaluation Centre is a research centre at the LSE. Directed by Dr Jose-Luis Fernandez, CPEC undertakes research particularly in the areas of long-term care and mental health economics and policy.
CPEC is seeking to appoint a full-time Research Officer to start in January 2022 for 36 months to support a new project entitled “Creating Care Partnerships - Developing Research Practice Partnerships to deliver novel, sustainable collaborations between adult social care research and practice in the UK”. LSE’s partnership in the Project is led by Dr Juliette Malley and involves evaluating the implementation and effectiveness of three new Research Practice Partnerships (RPPs) between care homes and universities, on a range of outcomes including building research capacity, and producing and using research to improve practice.
The Research Officer will be expected to collect and analyse qualitative and quantitative data from the RPP sites. The role will involve designing, organising and conducting the collection of data through interview, survey and observational methods, analysing the data collected using appropriate statistical and qualitative methods, synthesising the mixed methods data, contributing to the drafting of project reports and papers and to the dissemination of findings to a range of stakeholders, including funders, practitioners, policy-makers and other academics.
As a core member of the project team, the Research Officer will be expected to work closely with all project partners and with the RPP sites to ensure the evaluation aligns closely with all other project activities. The Research Officer will also undertake a range of desk and field-based activities, including carrying out literature reviews, attending workshops and other research-related activities necessary to ensure the quality and integrity of the work and success of the research project.
Candidates should have:
- A Postgraduate degree in a relevant discipline, such as health services research, health policy or social policy
- A PhD, or be working towards completion of a PhD, or have other research experience that demonstrates the capacity to produce independent original research
- Qualitative data collection and analysis skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and ability to communicate research findings effectively
- Ability to manage own workload and work to tight timescales.
We offer an occupational pension scheme, generous annual leave and excellent training and development opportunities.
For further information about the post, please see the how to apply document, job description and the person specification.
If you have any technical queries with applying on the online system, please use the “contact us” links at the bottom of the LSE Jobs page. Should you have any queries about the role, please email Dr Juliette Malley (j.n.malley@lse.ac.uk).
The closing date for receipt of applications is 20 October 2021 (23.59 UK time). Regrettably, we are unable to accept any late applications.