Overview
Senior Research Fellow / Designer in Residence at Falmouth University. This collaboration with Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CFT) and Falmouth University is exploring how embedded creative practice can build organisational capacity for innovation in NHS mental health settings. This role sits at the intersection of design, healthcare innovation, and participatory research, offering a unique opportunity to generate real world impact while advancing scholarly knowledge.
What You’ll Do
* Plan and lead co design workshops and creative interventions with multidisciplinary NHS teams and service users.
* Produce design artefacts, prototypes and toolkits that help teams test, adapt and embed creative practices in clinical and community settings.
* Conduct and document participatory research, capturing process and outcomes; analyse findings to articulate how creative capacity grows within healthcare environments.
* Build relationships across complex institutional settings; support capability building and knowledge exchange between CFT and Falmouth University.
* Share insights through reports, presentations, and public engagement, contributing to a replicable model for embedding creative practice in NHS services.
Essential Experience & Skills
* Demonstrable portfolio of practice based design and co design facilitation.
* Experience conducting participatory/qualitative research; ability to evidence and reflect on impact.
* Strong stakeholder engagement skills; ability to work across NHS and university contexts.
* Excellent communication, documentation and collaboration abilities.
Desirable Experience & Skills
* Experience in mental health or public sector innovation.
* Familiarity with research ethics and data governance in health settings.
Details
This is a fixed term position to 31 July 2026, full-time, 35 hours per week. Due to it being a time limited position an immediate start is preferred. The position will involve working across CFT sites and Falmouth University facilities in Cornwall. To apply we are looking to receive a CV and supporting statement plus a portfolio or research dossier highlighting relevant co-design and practice by Sunday 18 January 2026.
Benefits
* Employer Pension Contribution up to 12%.
* 35 days + 8 days bank holiday.
* Annual salary increments (Until top of grade reached).
* Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Pay.
* Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme (Tusker).
* Salary Sacrifice Cycle Scheme.
* Salary Sacrifice Home & Tech Scheme.
* Life Assurance.
Full details on our employee benefits can be found on our careers page www.falmouth.ac.uk/jobs. Alongside these benefits we offer a first class working environment across our campuses with all the facilities you would expect from a leading University.
Falmouth University welcomes and encourages job applications from people of all identities and backgrounds, particularly those under-represented and/or marginalised, as it is important we have a diverse range of candidates to consider.
Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
Employment type: Full-time
Job function: Research, Analyst, and Information Technology
Industries: Higher Education
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