Details
Area: Mental Health and Clinical Neurosciences
Location: UK Other
Overview
Applications are invited for an enthusiastic Post Doctoral Research Fellow/Associate to join Professor Graham Naylor and Drs. Raluca Nicoras and William Whitmer within our Hearing Sciences – Scottish Section Research Centre based at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Mental Health and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Nottingham.
Responsibilities
You will be the main researcher carrying out a project whose ultimate aim is to improve how the benefits of hearing aids are assessed in daily-life situations. Specifically, you will investigate how the context of a conversation (with whom, about what, etc.) influences different facets of the experience of ‘successful conversation’ (feeling engaged, exchanging information, etc.). Participants in the studies will include people with hearing loss and hearing-aid users.
You will collate pre-existing evidence, and design and execute qualitative interviews and self-report surveys (both retrospective and in-the-moment smartphone-based). With statistician support, you will then analyse complex patterns of data and derive an optimal set of items to form a smart self-report instrument.
Project details
This two-year project is fully funded by the Hearing Industry Research Consortium, and you will be among colleagues working on a diverse array of other studies into how people use their hearing, how hearing loss affects them, and how new technologies might help.
Qualifications and experience
You must have (or be close to completing) a PhD or equivalent experience in Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, Health Sciences, Speech-Language Pathology, Audiology or another relevant subject area, and be experienced in a variety of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies involving human participants. Additional desirable criteria include experience of working in a patient or client-facing environment, and of outcome measure development.
Appointment details
This post is offered on a full-time (36.25 hours) 24 month fixed term basis. To apply for this vacancy please click Apply now to complete your details. Please upload a copy of your CV and Cover Letter with the application.
Salary, closing date and reference
Salary: £35,116 to £38,249 per annum, depending on skills and experience (minimum £34866 with relevant PhD). Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.
Closing Date: Saturday 04 October 2025
Reference: MED216225
Enquiries
Informal enquiries may be addressed to Graham Naylor, graham.naylor@nottingham.ac.uk. Please note that applications sent directly to this email address will not be accepted.
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