Postdoctoral Research Fellow

The opportunity

RIPEN - Re-envisioning Infection Practice Ecologies in Nursing - is a two year AHRC funded programme as part of its Antimicrobial Resistance in the built environment call. Nurses consitute the largest professional healthcare workforce and typically nurses have numerous daily interactions with healthy and ill individuals, family members, community groups and other care professionals. As such nurses have huge potential to make every contact count to reduce inappropriate prescribing and demand for antibiotics, and to enhance the effectiveness of those prescribed. Using a range of arts and humanities approaches this reseach will engage nursing staff  to visualize and re-envision nursing practices in relation to the challenges of AMR.

The Postdoctoral Research Fellow will support the Principal Investigator (PI) and the Co-Investigator (CI) in the fulfilment of RIPEN project deliverables. Key responsibilities will include:

Duties and Responsibilities

• To work with the project team to develop visual tools to engage nurses in discussions around AMR.
• To undertake relevant literature review in relation to research into collaborative design in healthcare contexts particularly with reference to infection practices and control.
• To create visual templates and prompts for workshop activities.
• To contribute to the development and delivery of collaborative workshop activities with hospital and community based nurses.
• To contribute to the analysis of the challenges, strength and added value of deploying particular arts and humanities approaches in health services research.
• To contribute to the development of priorities around AMR and nursing practices that will inform policy, planning, education and further research.
• To support the communication of the project through social media and a research blog.
• To liaise with PI and CI to ensure the smooth running of the project.
• To participate in collaborative research with the PI and CI.
• To contribute to the outcomes of the project through an involvement in the preparation and presentation of papers at conferences, contributions to refereed journals, and the editing and/or authoring of book chapters where appropriate.

About you

You will have relevant experience of service design, design ethnography, co-design and prototyping as PG and Doctoral Level. In addition, you will an interest health care and social design. You will be expected to be confident in Adobe Creative Suite Software and to work as part of an interdisciplinary team.

If you have any queries you may contact ADS Recruitment Team via email ADSRecruitment@arts.ac.uk or telephone: 020 7514 2965.