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
The post will have a key role in the delivery of the NIHR HSDR study “Understanding the support needs of African and African-Caribbean people living with dementia, their care partners and families and the impacts of delayed support: identifying inclusive strategies to facilitate timely and culturally appropriate social care support”. This 36-month mixed methods study uses a flexible exploratory sequential design, integrating evidence synthesis (co-produced meta-aggregation) and qualitative methods: case studies (narrative interviews), ethnography (observations, in-situ interviews, documentary analysis) and co-produced translation. The goal is to improve how services recognise and support African and African Caribbean people living with dementia, alongside their families and care partners.
The post-holder will work closely with the PI on all aspects of the study to deliver the evidence synthesis, qualitative work packages, programme of co-production, publications, and outputs, including the dissemination and the delivery of impact.
In addition, the post holder will have career development opportunities, including contributing to the writing and development of research funding applications and the delivery of postgraduate education programmes within GIAM.
The Person
Applications for this position are invited from candidates who will ideally have experience of working within mixed-methods research projects in dementia, mental health or with other vulnerable groups, as well as excellent communication and organisational skills. We are particularly keen to receive applications from candidates with experience of ethnographic data collection.
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 15th of November.
For informal enquiries about the position please contact Dr Shadreck Mwale, shadreck.mwale@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
We welcome applications from individuals who do not have a fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (HEA). Should you be successful and do not hold an HEA fellowship you will be asked to complete one within 2 years of appointment as a condition of your continued employment. Depending on eligibility this may take the form of an advanced Level 7 apprenticeship in teaching which means that you will spend 20% of your work in off-the-job study.
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.
Applicants must hold a PhD in a relevant field with a demonstrable track record of research within the field.
An Enhanced DBS Certificate is required for this post (to be undertaken upon appointment).
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.