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Please see details below about a Research Associate position available as part of a Wellcome Trust project 'Young People and Digital Health Technologies Research Project'

Research Team: Dr Emma Rich, Professor Andy Miah, Professor Deborah Lupton

The University of Bath is seeking to appoint a Research Associate to work on a Wellcome Trust funded project 'The digital health generation' investigating the impact of healthy lifestyle technologies (fitness bands, mobile health apps, wearable technologies, websites) on young people's learning, identities and health practices. The successful applicant will work as part of an international team based at the University of Bath,  the University of Salford (Professor Andy Miah) and the University of Canberra, Australia (Professor Deborah Lupton) on an exciting interdiciplinary project bringing together pedagogy, ethics and digital health studies. The Research Associate will be working in the Department for Health on the main campus at the University of Bath.

Using innovative digital techniques, the project team will; map young people's digital health experiences and identify technologies of common significance; undertake in-depth qualitative analysis of young people's digital health practices, learning and experiences; examine contexts of mobile and wearable digital health practices by piloting an innovative mobile ethnography.  The research will provide unique and usable insights for health professionals and policy makers that will enable them to develop safe and targeted digital health policies/practices. Data analysis will examine; what young people are learning; how/which technologies are taken up/resisted and how this informs health practices; issues of trust/reliability; and identify opportunities and inequalities/disparities and risks associated with use.

The successful candidate will have experience of social science methods, including both quantitative and qualitative methods. A PhD in a relevant subject (e.g. digital sociology, pedagogy, ethics) is essential along with a strong background in research. Knowledge and experience of digital methods and associated theoretical approaches (digital sociology, critical digital health studies) will be desirable.

The Research Associate will be expected to play an active role in the collaboration and public engagement activities and to attend the regular meetings of the project team. They will contribute to the research design, undertake data collection/data management, and contribute to impact activities and to the preparation of research publications.

This is a part time (21.90 hours, 0.6 FTE), fixed term post with an expected end date of 31st March 2018. This post can be worked as three full days or five part time days or a combination of both.

We have an expected start date of 3rd of April 2017.

For further details,

https://www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.aspx?ref=DC4629

please contact Dr Emma Rich ([log in to unmask]) with any inquiries.

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Dr. Emma Rich
Reader (associate professor)
Department for Health
University of Bath