The project will explore digital technologies for mental health prevention, adopt person-centred intervention design principles, and work together with young people and school staff to co-design a flexible digital toolkit suitable for schools. The project is funded by the Medical Research Foundation, and supported by the newly developed Disorders of Eating and Body Image research group within the Department of Psychology at the 好色tv.

The project has three main objectives/work packages: 

1. Establish what secondary school students, teachers, and eating disorder prevention researchers agree are priority intervention targets, strategies, and delivery options.
2. Iteratively co-design a package of digital microinterventions and associated guidance with students and teachers so that it is relevant, credible, and engaging.
3. Assess whether this digital microintervention package is feasible to deliver in UK schools, and address key uncertainties related to implementation and evaluation.

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The successful applicant will take a lead in managing all three work packages and be involved in the entire research cycle, involving quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research, stakeholder management, and reporting and dissemination activities. 

Particular responsibilities will include, but are not restricted to:

• Managing advisory panel of stakeholders (i.e., students, school staff, lived experience expert) and guiding integration of perspectives throughout 
• Collaborating with research team to adapt existing evidence-based intervention strategies into brief interactive digital tools
• Developing the digital platform and technological features with support from technical experts
• Preparation of research materials and ethics applications
• Leading participant recruitment and management across studies, including a multistakeholder survey (Delphi) study, co-design workshops and think-aloud interviews with young people and school staff, and a feasibility trial in secondary schools
• Facilitating co-design workshops and think-aloud interviews, and guiding iterative refinement of the intervention package
• Conducting quantitative and qualitative analyses
• Contributing to academic publications and future funding applications
• Presenting research at national and international conferences
• Developing suitable materials for disseminating findings to non-academic audiences

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We wish to recruit someone with enthusiasm and interest in young people’s mental health, and eating disorders in particular. 

Previous experience of research in these areas is desirable, but not essential, as we are primarily looking for candidates with relevant research skills. 

The appointed candidate will ideally have a background in Psychology and/or Human Computer Interaction to guide the design and evaluation of the digital intervention. 

We are looking to recruit someone enjoys working as part of a team, values person-centred design principles, and can engage with diverse stakeholders. Ideally, you will have:

• A PhD in Psychology or background relevant to the project (essential)
• Experience with quantitative and qualitative research methods (essential)
• Previous experience with developing digital health interventions and/or participatory research methods (desirable)
• Experience of conducting multi-stakeholder projects (desirable)

Additional information

This role is offered on a part-time basis (0.5FTE) for 21 months.

As a member of Research Staff at the 好色tv, you will be encouraged to take up a minimum of 10 days professional development pro rata per year

A lower grade offer may be made (Grade 6) with comparable reduction in responsibilities and amendment in job title to Research Assistant, if a suitable applicant cannot be found to fill the Grade 7 position. Applicants will need to be within six months of their course completion date and will be promoted to Research Associate once their PhD has been awarded.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Melissa Atkinson (ma2293@bath.ac.uk).

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff. 

What we can offer you:

We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

• Free counselling services through Health Assured
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
• Staff discount on language courses
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
• Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
• Local discounts and more
• A family-friendly workplace 
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses

Find out more about our benefits and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the 好色tv a great place to work as well as following us and .

 

Closing Date: 07 Sep 2025

Department: Education & Research

Salary: The salary range for Research Assistant is £31,236 to £37,694 per annum. The salary range for Research Associate is £38,784 to £46,049 per annum.

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This is an exciting opportunity to work at the Department of Psychology, 好色tv, with a cross-institution team on the ESRC project: Influence, Manipulation and Information Threats as Adversarial Techniques: Events, Evolution and Effects (IMITATE³). 

This project is led by Cardiff University, and is a collaboration between the Universities of Bath, Cardiff, and Coventry. 

The Bath-led part of the project will focus on the factors that create susceptibility and resilience to being influenced by adversarial online information operations (i.e., disinformation). 

More information about the project and the Bath work package can be found here: .

The successful applicant will be working under the supervision of Bath PI Professor Laura Smith, in the Department of Psychology, 好色tv, and will join the Digital Lives research group (/research-groups/digital-lives-research-group/).  

In this role, you will contribute to designing and running research studies, as well as synthesising and disseminating outputs from relevant work as part of a wider programme of research for use by policymakers and practitioners. 

You may also have the opportunity to work with distinguished scholars throughout our academic community at Bath and at our partner organisations.

There is a strong expectation you will actively contribute to the strong profile of digital security work at Bath and its interdisciplinary ethos through participation in the development and publication of research results in major international conferences and journals. 

To facilitate this, you will also join our supportive and lively community of likeminded scholars at the Institute for Digital Security and Behaviour (). 

The Institute places understanding people, groups, and organisations at the heart of digital security. 

The purpose of the Institute is to solve global security challenges through world-leading, interdisciplinary, socio-technical research that co-creates inclusive security solutions by adopting a “whole of society” approach. 

The Institute aims to make the UK a more innovative, secure, and resilient digital society, helping develop the next generation of experts in digital security and behaviour, and advancing the UK as a global leader in digital security.

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The ideal postholder will have a background in Psychology or Behavioural Science, Data Science, Computational Social Science, or related discipline. A PhD in these or a related discipline is a requirement. 

The ideal applicant will be familiar with a variety of programming/scripting languages, and using R or Python. They should also be comfortable working with large data sets, such as social media data and/or longitudinal survey data. 

Additional information

The post is full-time for two years, to start on or soon after 1st October 2025. 

Informal enquiries can be made to Professor Laura Smith (l.g.e.smith@bath.ac.uk).

A lower grade offer may be made (Grade 6) with comparable reduction in responsibilities and amendment in job title to Research Assistant, if a suitable applicant cannot be found to fill the Grade 7 position. Applicants will need to be within six months of their course completion date and will be promoted to Research Associate once their PhD has been awarded. 

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff. 

As a member of Research Staff at the 好色tv, you will be encouraged to take up a minimum of 10 days professional development pro rata per year.

What we can offer you:

We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

• Free counselling services through Health Assured
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
• Staff discount on language courses
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
• Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
• Local discounts and more
• A family-friendly workplace 
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses

Find out more about our benefits and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the 好色tv a great place to work as well as following us and .

 

Closing Date: 13 Aug 2025

Department: Education & Research

Salary: The salary range for Research Assistant is £30,505 to £36,924 per annum. The salary range for Research Associate is £37,999 to £45,163 per annum.

The MHRG is a 5-year project aimed at conducting applied research to improve the health and wellbeing of young people aged 12-25 in the local region. 

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The Research Associate will join the project, “Harnessing the power of electronic health records to understand and improve access and outcomes in community mental health services for neurodivergent youth”, led by Dr Katherine Button.   

There is a huge gap in mental health provision for young people with neurodiversity. 

Needs and outcome reporting in young people's mental health services is highly variable, making it difficult to get a complete picture of the current service provision and identify opportunities for intervention. 

It is therefore unclear how well these services are catering to neurodivergent youth. 

This project aims to understand what electronic health data are currently being collected, to identify where improvements can be made, and to use these data to improve access and outcomes for young people, especially those with neurodiversity. 

The Research Associate will work in partnership with digital tech company , the Data Science Team at and community mental health services, to produce publications and outputs:

• Scoping how and where neurodiversity is captured in current electronic health records for mental health services for children and young people and identifying areas for research and improvement.  
• Using electronic health data to describe how neurodiversity and externalising problems are currently recorded in these settings, what treatments these individuals currently receive, and whether they are associated with differential access and outcomes. 
• Engaging with key stakeholders (e.g., ICBs, NHS services, clinicians, young people) to understand use of data systems and co-producing a standardised set of screening and outcome measures for neurodiversity for use in electronic health records. 
• Working towards the implementation of these measures in practice and contribute to national best-practice guidance. 

Through the Mental Health Research Group, the post holder will be encouraged and well supported in pursuing career development opportunities. 

They will join a thriving community of Early Career Researchers and there will be ample opportunities to work with world-leading clinicians and academics, including researchers at our partner institutions (Universities of Bristol and Exeter). 

We welcome applications from candidates who have: 

• A PhD in psychology, psychiatry, epidemiology, statistics, data science or related discipline, with a strong quantitative research element. 
• Knowledge and experience of mental health research, ideally with children and young people.  
• Experience of working with administrative data, electronic health records and/or big data is desirable but not essential 
• Experience with advanced quantitative data analysis and data code (preferably using R or Stata) and a commitment to research integrity, reproducibility, and open research.   
• Excellent team working, communication, and time management skills.  

Additional information

One position is available on a full time (36.5 hours per week) fixed-term basis for an initial period of 3 years.  

Informal enquiries about this role should be directed to Dr Katherine Button (K.S.Button@bath.ac.uk). 

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff. 

What we can offer you:

We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

• Free counselling services through Health Assured
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
• Staff discount on language courses
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
• Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
• Local discounts and more
• A family-friendly workplace 
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses

Find out more about our benefits and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the 好色tv a great place to work as well as following us and .

Closing Date: 14 Aug 2025

Department: Education & Research

Salary: £38,249 to £45,413