Associate Professor in Co-production in Mental Health Research

Found in: beBee jobs GB - 2 weeks ago


York, York City, United Kingdom York St John University Full time


York St John is an ambitious, modern university at the heart of historic York and there has never been a more exciting time to join us.

The Institute for Social Justice was launched in 2020 to underpin York St John University's mission to stand up for social justice.

We do so through developing collaborative research and practice that seeks to identify, expose and address some of the inequalities, injustices and challenges facing society today.

At its core the Institute seeks to work with people, with partners and with communities in a manner that sees participation, implementation and change as vital parts of its mission.


This post is part of the Converge project, which provides courses for adults who use mental health services.

It provides a model with which to address issues of social justice and equality of access within education and mental health services.


The Role

We are seeking a reflexive and innovative Associate Professor to lead in the development of co-productive research in collaboration with Converge.

Converge is a longitudinal practice-research project which uses action research, peer research, creative methods and reflective practice to explore the impact of offering educational opportunities to adults who experience mental ill health within a university context.

It also hosts the Converge Evaluation and Research Team (CERT), a group of researchers with lived experience of mental health difficulties.


Converge has been a successful REF impact case study for the University in 2021 and 2016.

We are looking to consolidate this track-record, but also develop and innovate new activity that sits within both Converge's and the ISJ's core principles.

To this end, the role will model interdisciplinary approaches of participatory, inclusive and community research in the context of mental health.

It will actively seek external research funding to deliver high-quality and impactful projects and activity; foster research links that facilitate the engagement and impact of co-productive research in mental health; supervise and provide training for PGRs and community researchers and provide leadership to the Converge Evaluation and Research Team.

The role will also provide leadership support within the Institute for Social Justice and through this contribute to the strategic direction of research within the University as a whole.


Key Requirements

Candidates will have a strong record of working in co-productive, participatory, inclusive and/or community research practices, evidenced through projects, publication (including non-traditional publications), and successful funding applications.

The successful candidate will be somebody who grasps the challenges and opportunities of participatory research and addresses these with both compassion and imagination.

We are looking for somebody for whom identification with a set of methodological and ethical principles is at the forefront of their research practice, which might be located in a range disciplines, including the arts, humanities, education and social sciences.

Crucially the candidate will have a record of working across disciplinary boundaries and an outward facing academic practice which communicates clear to a diversity of audiences.


It is essential that candidates hold a doctoral level qualification.

Further Information

For informal enquiries please Professor Matthew Reason, Director of the Institute for Social Justice

This role is eligible for Skilled Worker Visa sponsorship.

For further information regarding this visa route please visit Skilled Worker visa:
Overview - GOV.UK ).

£57,696 to £68,857 per annum
  • Professor, Mental Health Service Partnership

    Found in: beBee jobs GB - 7 days ago


    York, York City, United Kingdom York St John University Full time

    Please note, the requirement for applicants to have a PhD has been altered and this is no longer an essential element of the criteria.About Converge and York St JohnYork St John University is an ambitious, modern university at the heart of historic York and there has never been a more exciting time to join us. Converge is a partnership between the University...

  • Research Associate

    Found in: beBee jobs GB - 2 weeks ago


    York, York City, United Kingdom University of York Full time

    ESRC Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research CentreAre you an ambitious mixed methods researcher looking for your next challenge? Do you have a research interest in policing and vulnerable groups? Are you committed to shaping policies and practice? Do you want to further your career at a leading research-intensive University?You will work within the ESRC...

  • Research Associate

    Found in: beBee jobs GB - 6 hours ago


    York, York City, United Kingdom University of York Full time

    The Mental Health and Addiction Research Group (MHARG) at the Department of Health Sciences is looking to appoint a Research Associate to play a leading role in a new research study funded by NIHR aiming to develop an intervention to help nurses improve the assessment and care of the sexual health needs of men with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (The MenSH-IBD...

  • University Research Fellow

    Found in: beBee jobs GB - 2 weeks ago


    York, York City, United Kingdom York St John University Full time

    York St John University (YSJU) is an ambitious, modern university at the heart of historic York and there has never been a more exciting time to join us. We are establishing a new research culture driven by research groups and cross-university institutes, and are growing rapidly. Our research grant success is increasing, as is the number of postgraduate...

  • Research Grant Finance Officer

    Found in: beBee jobs GB - 2 weeks ago


    York, York City, United Kingdom University of York Full time

    DepartmentThe Department of Health Sciences is a large, multi-disciplinary and multi-professional department with over 350 academics, researchers and support staff engaged in delivering research & teaching. In 22/23 the department had annual research project income of £14.6 million raised almost entirely from external competitive grant funding from a wide...

  • Lecturer (Assistant Professor)

    Found in: beBee jobs GB - 1 week ago


    York, York City, United Kingdom University of York Full time

    RoleThe Department of Language and Linguistic Science is looking to appoint a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) specialising in research on lifespan language development (first and second language acquisition, loss and/or attrition), to be situated within the department's research group on psycholinguistic, theoretical and experimental approaches to language...

  • Research Associate

    Found in: beBee jobs GB - 7 days ago


    York, York City, United Kingdom University of York Full time

    AdvertIntroductionThe University of York wishes to recruit a 0.5 fte, 12-month Research Associate to provide research assistance on a new project, Volunteers and Vulnerabilities: the Politics of Policing Partnerships, funded by the ESRC Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre. We are looking for an excellent candidate trained in the social...

  • Research Associate

    Found in: beBee jobs GB - 6 hours ago


    York, York City, United Kingdom University of York Full time

    Department We are looking for a highly motivated postdoctoral research associate to join Dr Angela de Bruin's research group in the Department of Psychology at the University of York. The Research Associate would be working on a project funded by the UKRI Frontier Research Guarantee Funding (for selected ERC starting grants), entitled "Lost For Words:...

  • Research Associate

    Found in: beBee jobs GB - 1 week ago


    York, York City, United Kingdom University of York Full time

    DepartmentThe Department of Environment and Geography is seeking a postdoctoral research associate.You will carry out field sampling and laboratory-based experiments in order to determine the impacts of flooding onearthworm populations working with earthworms and their cocoons. You will work with Professor Mark Hodson atYork together with Dr Michael...

  • Research Fellow

    Found in: beBee jobs GB - 2 weeks ago


    York, York City, United Kingdom University of York Full time

    DepartmentThe York Law School and the Centre for Applied Human Rights (CAHR) at the University of York are looking for a Research Fellow with exceptional quantitative research skills to work on the Beyond Compliance Consortium Research Programme on Building Evidence for Promoting Restraint by Armed Actors. Funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development...

  • Research Fellow

    Found in: beBee jobs GB - 6 days ago


    York, York City, United Kingdom University of York Full time

    DepartmentThe York Law School and the Centre for Applied Human Rights (CAHR) at the University of York are looking for a Research Fellow with exceptional quantitative research skills to work on the Beyond Compliance Consortium Research Programme on Building Evidence for Promoting Restraint by Armed Actors. Funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development...

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate

    Found in: beBee jobs GB - 1 week ago


    York, York City, United Kingdom University of York Full time

    Role DescriptionApplications are invited for a Research Associate position in the Department of Mathematics at the University of York to work under the supervision of Dr. Bowman-Scargill on the EPSRC "Tensor and wreath products of symmetric groups" grant.The aim of the project is to understand decompositions of representations of symmetric groups and related...

  • Research Support Officer

    Found in: beBee jobs GB - 2 weeks ago


    York, York City, United Kingdom University of York Full time

    DepartmentThe Department of Health Sciences is a large, multi-disciplinary and multi-professional department with over 350 academics, researchers and support staff engaged in delivering research & teaching. In 22/23 the department had annual research project income of £14.6 million raised almost entirely from external competitive grant funding from a wide...

  • Research Fellow

    Found in: beBee jobs GB - 1 week ago


    York, York City, United Kingdom University of York Full time

    Role DescriptionThe Centre for Health Economics (CHE) at the University of York is seeking to appoint a Research Fellow within the Health Policy team on a full-time open contract (part-time applications will also be considered with a minimum of 0.8 FTE).The successful applicant will contribute to our existing portfolio of research projects, applying an...

  • Research Associate

    Found in: beBee jobs GB - 6 hours ago


    York, York City, United Kingdom University of York Full time

    The School of Physics, Engineering and Technology brings physicists and engineers together to push the frontiers of knowledge, foster innovation and meet the grand challenges facing society. Our aim is to deliver world-leading research in both fundamental and applied areas whilst developing new technologies that work for the public good, in an environment...

  • Policy Research Fellow

    Found in: beBee jobs GB - 1 week ago


    York, York City, United Kingdom University of York Full time

    TeamThe York Policy Engine (TYPE) is the University of York's specialist policy engagement unit . TYPE connects people, ideas and evidence to drive policy change in the pursuit of public good. TYPE aims to strengthen academic-policymaker engagement and the adoption of evidence generated at York into policy. TYPE is based in the Research, Innovation and...

  • Senior Research Fellow/Reader

    Found in: beBee jobs GB - 7 days ago


    York, York City, United Kingdom University of York Full time

    RoleThe Centre for Health Economics (CHE) at the University of York is seeking to appoint a Senior Research Fellow/Reader in health economics on a full-time open contract (part-time applications will also be considered with a minimum of 0.8 FTE).The successful candidate will have a research profile focused on economics applied to health, a strong...

  • Research Fellow in Evidence Synthesis

    Found in: beBee jobs GB - 1 week ago


    York, York City, United Kingdom University of York Full time

    Role DescriptionThe Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) at the University of York is recruiting two motivated Grade 6 Research Fellows and an experienced Grade 7 Research Fellow to contribute to a range of evidence synthesis projects.CRD is an academic research department that specialises in and is at the forefront of evidence synthesis, achieving a...

  • Research Associate in Evolutionary Biology

    Found in: beBee jobs GB - 2 weeks ago


    York, York City, United Kingdom University of York Full time

    Role DescriptionDepartmentApplications are invited for a postdoctoral researcher for 36 months to join the group of Dr Kanchon Dasmahapatra based in the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, Department of Biology at the University of York. The Dasmahapatra Group focuses on using genomic data to understand speciation, introgression and adaptation....

  • PhD Studentships

    Found in: beBee jobs GB - 2 weeks ago


    York, York City, United Kingdom University of York Full time

    The School for Business and Society's research is cross-disciplinary and draws together activities that other universities normally locate in separate Business Schools and Schools of Public Policy. Reflecting York's long-standing strengths in both of these areas we are the largest organisational unit at the University, and we are at the forefront of the...