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Research Assistant - (User Centred Healthcare Design)
Sheffield Hallam University
Faculty of Arts, Computing, Engineering and Sciences
Fixed Term until 1 October 2012
Salary £24,152 to £29,704
Vacancy Reference ACE 302/09
A vacancy has arisen for a postdoctoral mobile HCI researcher at Sheffield Hallam University to assist a 5 year project into User-Centred Healthcare Design (UCHD), and to contribute to other projects in HCI for International Development.
The post provides a unique opportunity for a user-centred technology researcher to experience working in a cutting edge team on live design projects. The person appointed will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team of HCI researchers and healthcare professionals aiming to improve user-centred service design and delivery in the NHS. Additional duties will support technology design projects working in developing countries, working with development professionals.
The NHS job will involve designing, developing and evaluating prototype systems to support self management for end users who have range of long-term conditions such as obesity, diabetes or chronic heart failure. The work will involve working with practitioners and design researchers as part of a strongly user-centred and participatory design process. This work is led by Professor Peter Wright & Dr Andy Dearden at Sheffield Hallam, Rev Mark Cobb of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS trust & Dr Ade Adebajo of Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and contributes to the South Yorkshire CLAHRC (http://clahrc-sy.nihr.ac.uk/)
Knowledge and experience of user-centred approaches to technology design is essential to the success of the project as is willingness and ability to work with a multi-disciplinary team of healthcare, IT and HCI specialists in order to transfer knowledge from research into NHS practice.
The post is available for 5 years but appointments will be for 3 years in the first instance.
For further details see:
http://ntmizar.adc.shu.ac.uk/HR/Vacancies/Research/Research%20Adverts/ACE%20302%2009.asp
For informal discussion, please contact Dr AndyDearden, [log in to unmask]
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