Senior Research Fellow / Study Manager

Overview

Senior Research Fellow with strong project management and quantitative research skills to play a key role in the set‑up, coordination, and management of our new NIHR funded \’Healthy Homes\’ project, based within the Population Health Improvement (PHI‑UK) Healthy Urban Places consortium.

Born in Bradford (BiB) is an internationally acclaimed applied research programme which aims to improve health and wellbeing through the development and evaluation of interventions to promote health and the application of research into practice.

Our new BiB Healthy Homes project will evaluate the impact of retrofitting social housing in Bradford on indoor conditions and air quality, resident health, and economic outcomes. Housing accounts for a fifth of all UK carbon emissions and is linked to mental, respiratory, and cardiovascular health. Retrofitting for energy efficiency can improve the warmth and reduce the cost of heating a home, benefitting low income and vulnerable groups, while reducing carbon emissions. However, there may be trade‑offs with reduced ventilation and worsening indoor air quality. We will monitor the indoor environments of over 400 social homes in Bradford for over 18 months using routine health and housing data from the Connected Bradford dataset to explore the impact of these improvements on resident health, carry out building modelling and health economic analyses, and engage in qualitative and participatory research activities.

Main Duties of the Job

• Play a key role in the set‑up, coordination, and management of the NIHR funded \’Healthy Homes\’ project
• Conduct quantitative research, including building modelling, health economic analyses, and monitoring of indoor environments across over 400 social homes
• Explore trade‑offs between energy efficiency improvements and indoor air quality, and assess contextual and system factors affecting implementation and resident experience
• Work under the supervision of the BiB Healthy Homes co Principal Investigators (Prof McEachan and Dr Yang) and serve as a key member of the BiB team
• Collaborate closely with the social housing provider, and research partners at the University of Leeds, University of York, University College London, University of Manchester and University of Cambridge to ensure successful delivery of the research programme

We reserve the right to bring forward the closing date of the advert should we receive a sufficient level of interest.