Associate Professor in Rural and Coastal Health

Location: Lincoln

Salary: From £57,422 per annum

Please note, this post is permanent and full-time at 1 FTE.

Closing Date: Sunday 11 January 2026

Reference: CHS272

Do you want to be part of a motivated, innovative and transdisciplinary team developing solutions to inequities driven by the place, space and pace of where people live?

Do you want to work with world leading experts in health and social care, the geographies (human and physical), social and political sciences, design and innovation, and climate and environment to take on the most important challenges to rural and coastal health and wellbeing?

Do you want to be out in the real world working with diverse groups in rural and coastal communities one day, working on rich data sets with teams in the local integrated care system the next and then finishing the week with a 'design for health' hackathon with rural young people to develop tools for increasing health literacy?

If the answer is 'yes' then this is the job for you, and Lincoln is the place to do it.

The University of Lincoln is seeking to appoint an Associate Professor in Rural and Coastal Health to join the Lincoln Institute for Rural and Coastal Health.

The Lincoln Institute for Rural and Coastal Health (LIRCH) is the country's first integrated and multidisciplinary research institute dedicated to rural and coastal health research. LIRCH has been awarded £10.9 million funding from Research England's Expanding Excellence in England (E3) fund and is in the process of significant expansion. As part of this expansion, the University will recruit to over twenty research positions. A technical and professional services team will also be embedded within the Institute to support the research and develop a financially sustainable research Institute.

With this expanded capacity, the Institute will bring together multiple disciplines to produce impactful research helping to tackle the place-based inequalities experienced by rural, coastal, and remote communities. LIRCH aims to create the future academic and community leaders of rural and coastal health.

As an Associate Professor you will support the strategic growth of research within LIRCH. You will engage with partners, collaborators and activities within and beyond the University and develop external networks in your areas of expertise to generate income through research, scholarship, and other externally supported projects.

You will be responsible for conducting research as directed by the strategic priorities for LIRCH. You will act as an independent researcher and be expected to lead research projects in their area of specialism.

The Associate Professor in Rural and Coastal Health will lead the LIRCH academic and technical team in investigating health outcomes and inequalities experienced by rural, coastal, and remote communities. This includes understanding community and infrastructure readiness for the integration of place-led interventions. This will be predominately a research focused role.

For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Professor Mark Gussy at

To reduce unconscious and other types of bias in our recruitment processes LIRCH use anonymous recruitment and follow a staged process to shortlist candidates. There are mandatory shortlisting questions on the application form designed to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate how your qualifications, experience and training are relevant to the role. Remember to include evidence or examples to support your application and do not duplicate information from the CV and publication list in your responses. The statements you provide will be scored by the shortlisting panel, and these scores have a direct impact on whether you will be shortlisted for interview. To support our shortlisting decision, please upload a copy of your CV and publication list. If you have any questions regarding the application process or questions, please contact