​​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.

This is an exciting opportunity for a postdoctoral researcher experienced in qualitative methods.  The successful candidate will join a large cross disciplinary programme of research examining lifecourse inequities for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ+) people.  This exciting project brings together academics from across King’s, UCL, Greenwich and Sussex, as well as a wide range of community and charity groups to reduce inequities for LGBTQ+ people. This project will examine institutional, community and individual level processes and actions to transform understandings of how LGBTQ+ health inequities are generated and sustained, and how they can be mitigated.

 

We are seeking an experienced postdoctoral researcher with strong qualitative skills, and experience of successfully conducting research with and for the LGBTQ+ communities. They will lead on the collection and analysis of the longitudinal qualitative data for the study, but will also support the integration of knowledge across the various workstreams.

 

This will be a hybrid role.  The successful candidate will be expected to be on site at King’s a minimum of 2 days per week at Denmark Hill predominantly, and also occasionally at the Strand.  During the data collection period there will also be some travel requirements in order to conduct interviews, although these will be limited to the UK and will be flexible around the researcher’s needs and responsibilities.

 

This is a full time role (35 hours per week) and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 31st August 2030, starting no earlier than 1st November 2026.

 

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.