Ktp Associate for Morelife Project

3 weeks ago

Durham, United Kingdom Durham University Full time

**KTP Associate for MoreLife Project**
**(**
**Job Number**:
**23000178**
**)**

Research and Innovation Services

Grade 7: - £35,333 per annum

Fixed Term - Full Time

**Contract Duration***: 28 months

**Contracted Hours per Week***: 37

**Closing Date***: 28-Mar-2023, 5:59:00 PM

**Disclosure and Barring Service Requirement***: Not Applicable.

**Durham University**

Durham University is one of the world's top universities with strengths across the Arts and Humanities, Sciences and Social Sciences. We are home to some of the most talented scholars and researchers from around the world who are tackling global issues and making a difference to people's lives.

The University sits in a beautiful historic city where it shares ownership of a UNESCO World Heritage Site with Durham Cathedral, the greatest Romanesque building in Western Europe. A collegiate University, Durham recruits outstanding students from across the world and offers an unmatched wider student experience. Less than 3 hours north of London, and an hour and a half south of Edinburgh, County Durham is a region steeped in history and natural beauty. The Durham Dales, including the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, are home to breath-taking scenery and attractions. Durham offers an excellent choice of city, suburban and rural residential locations. The University provides a range of benefits including pension and childcare benefits and the University’s Relocation Manager can assist with potential schooling requirements.

**The KTP Project**

The KTP Associate will lead a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project that is a collaboration between Durham University and MoreLife UK Ltd. based in Leeds. The Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) scheme helps businesses to innovate and grow through the aid of discipline specific academic expertise. It does this by linking them with an academic supervisory team and a researcher in a university to work on a specific project.

Working alongside CTO, project managers, digital programme lead, psychology lead and software development team, the KTP Associate will be involved in a project to design, develop and implement innovative methods for delivering real-time personalised weight management interventions, via an accessible digital platform.

**Department of Computer Science**

**MoreLife**

(more-life.co.uk/) is a health and well-being company providing services to NHS England and local authorities. The services include weight management, smoking cessation, and active well-being programmes, NHS health checks, consultancy and training. The staff include psychologists, nutritionist, dietician, sports/activity leaders. The staff and services are supported by a digital infrastructure comprising a staff-facing data management system and client-facing system. The company has a strong track record of multi-disciplinary research; the CEO Paul Gately is a Professor of Sports.

**Specific responsibilities of the Associate**:

- Identify internal stakeholders of MoreLife (UK) Ltd. Understand company business & capabilities. Problem statement and project scope formulation.
- Review of state-of-the-art in: data preparation and feature extraction; fairness in data; machine learning for feature extraction, sentiment and behaviour analysis. User needs analysis - Identify, invite, recruit target participants.
- Data collection from different knowledge sources (including: social media, company and NHS data records, focus groups, self-reporting).
- Dataset creation and data cleaning.
- Model learning: training, testing and evaluation of the algorithms on the collected dataset.
- Implementation and integration with MoreLife systems.
- Promotion of the project, final reporting, including progress reviews and updates to stakeholders.
- Journal/conference paper writing and publishing.

**Responsible to**:
***Dr Sunčica Hadžidedić**, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Durham University.

**Dr Dorothy Monekosso,** Chief Technology Officer, MoreLife UK Ltd.

**Location**:
The KTP Associate will be employed by Durham University but will be based at MoreLife UK, Leeds, and will be expected to spend time in Durham University to undertake the partnership’s objectives.

**Additional Information**:
For an informal discussion about the post please contact:
Find more information about the company at: (Healthy Lifestyle Programmes | MoreLife UK (more-life.co.uk))

**What to submit?**

All applicants are asked to submit:

- A **CV** and **cover letter** which details your experience, strengths and potential in the requirements set out above;
- One own **article** (including a conference/journal paper, a manuscript in preparation or a PhD thesis chapter)

**Next Steps**

The assessment for the post will include several stages:
**Person Specification**

**The Requirements**

**Essential**:
**Qualifications**
- A first degree in Computer Science or other numerate discipline with a significant component

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