Job Number
BU03970
School/Department
School of Health Sciences
Grade
7
Contract Duration
12 months
Responsible to
Senior Research Fellow
Overview
College
The post is based within the College of Medicine and Health, which delivers internationally recognised research and teaching in health, social care, psychology, education, and policy. The College has a strong applied research focus and close links with public sector and third-sector partners across Wales and the UK.
School
The post will be located within the Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation (CHEME), a leading research centre based at Bangor University. CHEME specialises in health and social care economics, undertaking applied economic evaluation to inform decision-making across health, social care, and public policy. The Centre has a strong emphasis on prevention, wellbeing, outcomes measurement, and value for money, and works closely with NHS organisations, local authorities, Welsh Government, and third-sector partners. CHEME leads on Health and Care Economics Cymru (HCEC) with Swansea University, strengthening capacity and collaboration in health and social care economics across Wales. The Centre is internationally recognised for high-quality, policy-relevant research, with demonstrable impact across Wales and beyond.
The Project
The post holder will contribute to a portfolio of externally funded research projects focused on social care, prevention, wellbeing, and health inequalities. Projects may include economic evaluation of community-based services, early intervention programmes, and integrated health and social care models, with particular relevance to Welsh policy priorities.
The post holder will support grant development and capture and play a role in promoting social care economics as a recognised and policy-relevant sub-discipline of economics through high-quality research, partnerships, and dissemination.
Purpose of the Job
The post sits within an established research team delivering applied social care and public health economics, supporting the production of high-quality economic evidence to inform policy, commissioning, and service development. The role involves designing and delivering economic analyses in close collaboration with senior researchers and external partners, generating robust evidence on costs, outcomes, and value for money to support decision-making across health and social care systems, while also contributing to the development of funding applications to strengthen grant capture.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Gathering and analysis of data:
1. Design and deliver applied economic evaluations, including cost-effectiveness, cost-utility, cost-consequence, budget impact, and value-for-money analyses.
2. Analyse data from routine administrative datasets, service-level data, surveys, and primary research.
3. Develop transparent costing frameworks, identify appropriate unit costs and proxies, and assess uncertainty and sensitivity where appropriate.
4. Develop qualitative research across social care research.
5. Maintain up-to-date knowledge of relevant economic, social care, and public health policy literature, methods, and guidance.
Delivering research outcomes:
6. Contribute to peer-reviewed academic publications, service evaluations and policy-relevant outputs.
7. Prepare accessible reports, briefings, and evidence summaries for funders, commissioners, policymakers, practitioners, and community partners.
8. Support dissemination through conferences, workshops, stakeholder events, and applied knowledge-exchange activities.
9. Work collaboratively within multi-disciplinary research teams, embedding co-produced approaches that value lived experience alongside practitioner and academic expertise.
Administration of research projects:
10. Participate in project meetings and support delivery against agreed objectives, milestones, and timelines.
11. Build and maintain effective working relationships with multi-disciplinary partners, including local authorities, NHS organisations, Welsh Government, third-sector organisations, and community groups.
12. Support co-production activities, including engagement with people with lived experience, carers, and frontline practitioners, where appropriate.
13. Contribute to ethics, governance, and data-sharing processes.
Monitoring of financial controls:
14. Support monitoring of research budgets, resource use, and project costings.
15. Contribute to the development of costing, pricing, and economic sections of funding applications and project proposals.
Other role-specific duties:
16. Actively contribute to grant capture by providing economic, methodological, and value-for-money input to funding bids.
17. Develop, strengthen, and sustain internal and external networks to support collaborative research, funding opportunities, and applied impact.
Other Duties and Responsibilities
18. The post holder will be expected to participate in performance review and developmental activities.
19. The post holder will be expected to comply with the University’s equality policies and statements, Dignity at Work and Study Policy and the University’s Welsh Language Scheme.
20. The post holder has a general and legal duty of care in relation to health, safety and wellbeing and must take all reasonable steps to ensure a safe and healthy working environment for themselves self and for other members of staff, students and visitors affected by their actions or inactions. The post holder is also required to comply with all applicable health and safety policies, procedures and risk assessments.
21. The post holder must comply with relevant legal and financial policies and procedures and be aware of their responsibilities in terms of the legal requirements of their post.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential:
22. PhD (or close to completion) in health economics, social policy, economics, public health, or a related discipline.
23. Equivalent applied research experience will be considered.
Desirable:
24. Formal training in health or social care economic evaluation.
25. Training in quantitative or statistical methods.
26. Experience of working in a social care setting.
Experience / Knowledge
Essential:
27. Experience of applied mixed methods analysis in health and/or social care.
28. Experience of economic evaluation methods.
29. Evidence of academic outputs (publications, reports, or equivalent).
30. Experience of working with real-world or administrative data.
Desirable:
31. Experience of working on externally funded research projects.
32. Knowledge of UK or Welsh health and social care systems.
33. Experience producing policy-facing outputs.
34. Experience of grant capture.
Skills / Abilities
Essential:
35. Strong written and verbal communication skills.
36. Strong analytical skills and ability to interpret and present mixed methods findings clearly.
37. Ability to manage workload and meet deadlines.
38. Ability to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
39. Strong stakeholder engagement and interpersonal skills.
Desirable:
40. Project management skills.
41. Experience with statistical or economic software (e.g. Stata, R, Excel).
42. Experience contributing to funding applications.
Other
Essential:
43. Understanding of Welsh culture and policy context.
44. This post is subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check.
Desirable:
45. The ability to communicate in Welsh is desirable for this post.
46. Driving license
General
We are a member of Advance HE's Athena SWAN Gender Equality charter and hold a Silver award in recognition of our commitment to and progress towards gender equality within the University's policies, practices, and culture. We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer.
All members of staff have a duty to ensure their actions are in line with the overall environmental aims of the University and minimise their environmental impact.
All offers are made subject to proof of eligibility to work in the UK and receipt of satisfactory references.
Disclosure & Barring Service
This post is subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check. As Bangor University meets the requirements in respect of exempted questions under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, all applicants who are offered employment will be subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) before the appointment is confirmed. This will include details of cautions, reprimands or final warnings as well as convictions. DBS checks will be updated every 3 years.