The University of West London (UWL) is ranked the best modern* university (non-specialist) in London in the Complete University Guide 2025 for the second year in a row.
Our institution has been ranked 1st for Student Experience, 1st for Teaching Quality, 6th for Social Inclusion and 10th in London in The Times & Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024. This places UWL as a top 50 UK University overall with recognition paid to its investment in research and its top 20 placing in the People and Planet university league for environmental efforts.
*University status awarded in or after 1992.
The Geller Institute of Ageing and Memory
We are a flagship Institute at the University of West London (UWL), delivering interdisciplinary applied research and education. Our focus is on delivering the evidence to inform high quality, cutting edge, health and social care to benefit people living with dementia, older people, and their care partners and families.
At the heart of our mission is to ensure the most vulnerable populations of people living with dementia and older people have better experiences of health and social care and are supported in living well and living at home for longer. All our research and education programmes are guided by an inclusive approach.
We are an interdisciplinary team, with expertise in sociology, psychology, social policy, epidemiology, nursing, and philosophy, with our research drawing upon a wide range of methodologies.
Our research funding incorporates Department of Health and Social Care contracts (via NIHR), funding from national and international charities, and philanthropic support. We have established a reputation for the rapid translation of our research into impact, which is informing public discourse, shaping the policy agenda, and translated into practice improvements.
Our postgraduate education programmes offer interdisciplinary, research focused, evidence-based teaching and supervision. Our postgraduate courses are designed to cultivate leaders in ageing and dementia care and improve practice across health and social care settings.
The Institute is based within The School of Medicine and Biosciences. For further details and to see our team, please visit:
https://www.uwl.ac.uk/research/research-centres-and-groups/geller-institute-ageing-and-memory
The School of Medicine and Biosciences
The School of Medicine and Biosciences at UWL, is an interdisciplinary research-driven School, embedded within an area of West London with diverse populations and significant pockets of both deprivation and affluence. We work in partnership with policy makers and practitioners to improve the health of our communities and reduce inequalities, developing and delivering hyperlocal health and social care initiatives, which have the potential to scale up locally and nationally. We deliver research-led undergraduate and postgraduate taught courses in Biosciences and Dementia Care. Our research themes: Ageing and dementia; Healthcare inequalities; Public Health; Gene-targeted cancer therapy; and Translational Medicine.
The Role
We are seeking an innovative talented individual to join us as a Research Assistant for the national Dementia Network EMPOWER- Empowering a Meaningful Life for All. The Network brings together researchers in dementia care, social care, primary care and palliative care, with lived experts and communities to realize sustained change to support and empower equalities in care for people living and dying with dementia, and their families. The Network is funded the UKRI Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
This is opportunity to join a multidisciplinary network across health and social care with university, community partners, and lived experts by experience. The Network is co-led by Professor Emma Wolverson at the Geller Institute of Ageing and Memory, University of West London and Catherine Evans, King’s College London.
The Network aims to identify, promote and sustain high-quality care for people with dementia and complex needs, and their families, for them to live as well as possible throughout the disease trajectory, including into end of life and bereavement.
You will support the networks patient and public involvement (PPI) panel and help to increase and diversify membership to this group. You will support the networks co-production panel in developing and harnessing creative and inclusive approaches for meaningful engagement and collaboration. You will support community partners in joining the network and through creating opportunities for networking and knowledge exchange.
In addition, the post holder will have career development opportunities, including contributing to the writing and development of study outputs, research funding applications and the delivery of postgraduate education programmes within GIAM. The post will require some UK travel. Travel expenses will be reimbursed.
The Person
Applications for this position are invited from candidates who have experience of conducting research with people living with dementia and their families, of patient and public involvement in research and of working with community organisations. Excellent communication and organisational skills are essential.
How to Apply
To apply click on ‘Apply Online’ and upload your CV and Cover Letter. Further information about the application process can be found here: https://jobs.uwl.ac.uk/display.aspx?id=1253&pid=0
Please email hr.recruitment@uwl.ac.uk if you need any assistance with the application process.
Interviews are expected to be held on the 5th of November.
For informal enquiries about the position please contact Professor Emma Wolverson emma.wolverson@uwl.ac.uk
Additional Information
Read more about working at the University of West London at https://www.uwl.ac.uk/about-us/how-university-works/why-work-uwl
Our school is under-represented in terms of staff from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, of LGBT+ identities, and with disabilities. UWL is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce, supports the gender equality Athena SWAN Charter, and is a Disability Confident Employer as well as a Diversity Champion for Stonewall, the leading LGBT+ rights organisation. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly those mentioned above to increase diversity in our workforce.
Candidates must be able to demonstrate their eligibility to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.
Please be advised that it is expected that appointment within a grade will normally be at the minimum point.
An Enhanced DBS Certificate is required for this post (to be undertaken upon appointment).
This position does not meet the University criteria for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
We will intermittently review the applications as part of this open advert, therefore if successful, you will be shortlisted and contacted at any time.
The University of West London reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.