The University of Exeter, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences wishes to recruit a full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow to research the impact of the menopause on the healthcare workforce. This MPS Foundation funded post is available from 3rd March 2025 for 1 year. The research team is composed of researchers and clinicians from the Universities of Exeter, Devon Partnership Trust and North East and North Cumbria ICB. The group will be supported by an advisory group, which includes senior leaders in the menopause field with connections to operational staff, health professionals with experience of the menopause, those designing and providing support interventions and representative of the public and patients.  The successful applicant will support the acceleration of the next phase of research and associated positive impacts on the workforce. You will be part of a wider research community through the health professions education and wellbeing research group (https://medicine.exeter.ac.uk/health-community/research/healthprofessions) and the care under pressure research programme (https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/careunderpressure)

 Building upon previous research projects, the research fellow will:

  • Identify additional existing interventions for NHS staff that aim to minimize the impact of menopause on the healthcare workforce, including those not yet published in the peer-reviewed literature.
  • Map interventions to existing typologies and frameworks to determine their targets and mechanisms of action.
  • Gather information about the costs of the interventions identified.
  • Undertake realist interviews with key stakeholders to understand why certain interventions do or don’t work for some people in specific contexts.
  • Identify key outcome measures that could determine the success (or otherwise) of interventions.
  • Undertake desk-based research to understand good practice internationally.

 For further information please contact Dr Jessica Scott, e-mail [email protected].

 The closing date for completed applications is 8th December.  Interviews are expected to take place on 18th December 2024.

 Click here to view the advert on UoE website.