Research Fellow in Knowledge Exchange / Knowledge Exchange Broker

Research Fellow in Knowledge Exchange / Knowledge Exchange Broker

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Research Fellow in Knowledge Exchange / Knowledge Exchange Broker for NIHR PHIRST Fusion
About The Role
Working as part of multi-disciplinary teams, you will support the Principal Investigator in delivery of research and knowledge exchange activity as a member of the Public Health Intervention Responsive Studies Team (PHIRST) Fusion, funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Public Health Research (PHR) Programme.
You will perform the role of Knowledge Exchange Broker, and will lead on the team’s knowledge mobilisation strategy, while working on selected intervention evaluations to develop and monitor knowledge mobilisation plans and activity for each project, including Post Evaluation Reviews with key stakeholders, working closely with the PHIRST senior management team.
You will be working across organisational and professional boundaries, strengthening the capacity of the PHIRST Fusion team to interact with policy, practice, and community partners, exploiting opportunities for knowledge exchange and helping to develop new avenues for translational research in public health.
The roles is fixed term for 5 years, starting on 1st September 2025.
This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 therefore the successful candidate will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service check.
About The Team
PHIRST Fusion is of one eight academic teams that have been commissioned by NIHR since 2020 to collaborate with local authorities in order to evaluate their public health interventions. We provide local government with robust, co-produced evidence to support policies and programmes that will improve the health of our population and reduce health inequalities across our communities.
Our team is one of the original four PHIRSTs and brings together many years of experience in applied translational research in public health from previously UKCRC funded Centres of Excellence in Public Health (Fuse in North East England; the Centre of Excellence for Public Health in Northern Ireland; the Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy (SCPHRP)); and also from the MRC/CSO Social & Public Health Sciences Unit (SPHSU), with individual members of the NIHR School for Public Health Research (SPHR) (University of Sheffield and Fuse), and the Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health at Glasgow Caledonian University.
We have expertise in in the evaluation of complex interventions and natural experimental methods, rapid response-mode research, intervention development and adaptation, realist evaluation, systems thinking and systems evaluation in public health, and applied economic evaluation in a policy context.
Over the last five years we have completed 10 evaluations with local authorities and supported these local authorities to mobilise the findings into their decision making, facilitated by dedicated knowledge mobilisation plans and activities. For more information, please have a look at our website: . We have recently been recommissioned by NIHR for an additional five years (2025-2030).
You will be based within the Department of Nursing, Midwifery and Health at Northumbria University, Department of Nursing, Midwifery and Health offers students the opportunity to develop caring careers that can transform the lives of patients, families and communities. We have a long-established record of delivering high quality learning and teaching, research and enterprise by experts in the field.
We have an excellent reputation for collaboration with key partners which include the NHS, local government, voluntary and private sectors. Northumbria University is well-established with highly rated Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) approved programmes.
We are ranked 8th in the UK for research power in Allied Health Professions and Nursing according to the 2021 Research Excellence Framework. This is an assessment of research quality in all UK universities which rated 88% of our research outputs as being world-leading or internationally excellent and gave our research environment the highest possible rating.
About You
Applicants should hold a PhD (or equivalent experience) in a relevant discipline and have demonstrable specialist expert knowledge in knowledge exchange and experience of working with local authorities.
Further information about the requirements of the role is available in the person specification .
If you would like an informal discussion about the role, please contact
To apply for this vacancy please click \’Apply Now\’ . Your application should include a covering letter and a CV.
We welcome applications from the UK and across the world. Visit our web pages for details about Relocation Assistance.
About Us
Join Northumbria University, a research-intensive institution unlocking potential and changing lives locally and globally. Named Times Higher Education\’s University of the Year in 2022 and Modern University of the Year in 2025, we rank top 25 in the UK for research power. Discover more about us.
With over 37,000 students from 140+ countries, we offer world-leading research, award-winning partnerships, and an outstanding student experience. We empower our exceptional staff, promoting a positive work-life balance and offering great benefits, including excellent pension schemes, flexible working, generous holiday entitlement and more.
Our Northumbria Values, co-created by our team, define who we are: Academic Excellence, Innovation, Inclusivity, Collaboration, and Ambition. Our Behaviours shape our work culture: We listen and learn, support one another, respect everyone, trust each other, and are bold.
Located in Newcastle upon Tyne and London, we are an on-campus organisation with flexibility in hours and location. We pride ourselves on diversity and inclusivity, holding numerous awards for gender and race equality, disability confidence, and research excellence. We also hold the HR Excellence in Research award for implementing the concordat supporting the career Development of Researchers and are members of the Euraxess initiative to deliver information and support to professional researchers.The University has implemented a range of flexible working arrangements, and we are happy to explore candidate requirements as part of the recruitment process.
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