Overview
Research Associate, Better Health & Care Hub – Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
About Us
King’s College London is a leading University with nine Faculties. As part of King’s Health Partners, we have an excellent environment for health care interaction and a strong focus on mentoring and career development.
The 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF2021) placed King’s applied and allied health research 1st for: overall proportion of research rated 4* (world-leading, the best mark possible), research papers rated 4*, impact rated 4*, environment rated 4*(joint), Grade Point Average and Power. REF2021 rated as world-leading: 100% of our environment, 86% of our impact and 70% of our research overall. Over 95% of our research overall was rated as world-leading or internationally excellent.
As of 2026, King’s is top-two in the world for Nursing and #1 in the UK for the 8th year in a row (QS world rankings). King’s produces more highly cited research outputs (top 1% citations) on palliative care than any other centre internationally (SciVal), and is second in the world on the same metric for nursing and midwifery. King’s is the largest provider of health care education in Europe.
The Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care (NMPC) is based in the heart of central and south London. It includes the Cicely Saunders Institute for Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation, the premier Institute for Palliative Care, bringing together clinical, research and education teams.
Our applied clinical and health multidisciplinary research transforms therapies, the healthcare experience and outcomes for patients and those important to them, wherever they are cared for. Our award-winning NMPC education programmes span pre-registration nursing and midwifery, and multidisciplinary post-graduate taught and research programmes.
We are committed to staff development and offer opportunities to identify and access appropriate training and professional growth.
About the role
King’s College London’s Better Health & Care Hub (BH&CH) is a cross faculty initiative to develop research and education dedicated to supporting the transformation of health and care, in partnership, on a local, national and international scale. BH&CH aims to support research and education which radically redesign interventions, systems, and pathways to address the most pressing challenges faced by people living with complex illnesses, and the healthcare systems that support them.
Led by the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care (NMPC), in collaboration with the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy (SSPP) and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), our initiative harnesses interdisciplinary expertise from across King’s College London, bolstered by strategic partnerships with NHS, social care, community, patient-led, charitable and international organisations.
We are seeking to appoint a full-time Research Associate to support evaluations of policy and service innovations and developments in social care and community-based care. The postholder will support a number of projects led by Dr Juliette Malley, including projects that are part of the NIHR-funded Social Care Rapid Evaluation Team (SOCRATES) and the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Policy Innovation and Evaluation (PIRU). The BH&CH Research Associate will also be expected to play an active role in the life and activities of the Better Health & Care Hub and support its broader work, including the development of educational offerings. Patient and Public Involvement and Hub events.
The BH&CH Research Associate will be expected to support the design and delivery of evaluations of policy and service innovations and developments in social care, and develop expertise in evaluation. The role will involve a range of desk and field-based activities, including literature reviews, data collection, data analyses using appropriate qualitative and statistical methods and drawing on relevant theories, frameworks and models, synthesising mixed methods data, contributing to the drafting of reports and journal articles and to the dissemination of findings to a range of stakeholders, including practitioners and other service staff, funders, policy-makers and other academics.
The BH&CH Research Associate will be expected to work with colleagues from across the partner institutions of research projects. This will mean working closely with academics across King’s College London, the London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of Lancashire on SOCRATES and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the University of Glasgow on PIRU. The Research Associate will also undertake other education and research-related activities necessary to ensure the success of the research projects and the Better Health & Care Hub.
This is a full time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 31st July 2028.
Research staff at King’s are entitled to at least 10 days per year (pro-rata) for professional development. This entitlement, from the Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers, applies to Postdocs, Research Assistants, Research and Teaching Technicians, Teaching Fellows and AEP equivalent up to and including grade 7. Visit the Centre for Research Staff Development for more information.
Location: Hybrid – minimum of 2 days per week on Denmark Hill campus
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