Research Officer (CHEME)

Research Officer (CHEME) (40%FTE)

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This role will be located on campus at Bangor. Through our Dynamic Working framework, there will also be the option to spend some time working remotely (although remaining in the UK) to support work life balance, which will be discussed further with candidates at interview.

Applications will only be accepted via our on-line recruitment website, jobs.bangor.ac.uk. However, in cases of access issues due to disability, paper application forms are available by telephoning 01248 383865.

Closing date for applications: 22nd April, 2026.

Informal enquiries can be made by contacting: Dr Ceryl Teleri Davies at ceryl.davies@bangor.ac.uk

Committed To Equal Opportunities.

Overview

College

The post is based within the College of Medicine and Health, which delivers internationally recognised research and teaching in health, social care, psychology, education, and policy. The College has a strong applied research focus and close links with public sector and third-sector partners across Wales and the UK.

School

The post will be located within the Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation (CHEME), a leading research centre based at Bangor University. CHEME specialises in health and social care economics, undertaking applied economic evaluation to inform decision-making across health, social care, and public policy. The Centre has a strong emphasis on prevention, wellbeing, outcomes measurement, and value for money, and works closely with NHS organisations, local authorities, Welsh Government, and third-sector partners. CHEME leads on Health and Care Economics Cymru (HCEC) with Swansea University, strengthening capacity and collaboration in health and social care economics across Wales. The Centre is internationally recognised for high-quality, policy-relevant research, with demonstrable impact across Wales and beyond.

The Project

The post holder will contribute to a portfolio of externally funded research projects focused on social care, prevention, wellbeing, and health inequalities. Projects may include economic evaluation of community-based services, early intervention programmes, and integrated health and social care models, with particular relevance to Welsh policy priorities.

The post holder will support grant development and capture and play a role in promoting social care economics as a recognised and policy-relevant sub-discipline of economics through high-quality research, partnerships, and dissemination.

Purpose of the Job

The post sits within an established research team delivering applied social care and public health economics, supporting the production of high-quality economic evidence to inform policy, commissioning, and service development. The role involves designing and delivering economic analyses in close collaboration with senior researchers and external partners, generating robust evidence on costs, outcomes, and value for money to support decision-making across health and social care systems, while also contributing to the development of funding applications to strengthen grant capture.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Gathering and analysis of data:

• Design and deliver applied economic evaluations, including cost-effectiveness, cost-utility, cost-consequence, budget impact, and value-for-money analyses.
• Analyse data from routine administrative datasets, service-level data, surveys, and primary research.
• Develop transparent costing frameworks, identify appropriate unit costs and proxies, and assess uncertainty and sensitivity where appropriate.
• Develop qualitative research across social care research.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of relevant economic, social care, and public health policy literature, methods, and guidance.

Delivering research outcomes:

• Contribute to peer-reviewed academic publications, service evaluations and policy-relevant outputs.
• Prepare accessible reports, briefings, and evidence summaries for funders, commissioners, policymakers, practitioners, and community partners.
• Support dissemination through conferences, workshops, stakeholder events, and applied knowledge-exchange activities.
• Work collaboratively within multi-disciplinary research teams, embedding co-produced approaches that value lived experience alongside practitioner and academic expertise.

Administration of research projects:

• Participate in project meetings and support delivery against agreed objectives, milestones, and timelines.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with multi-disciplinary partners, including local authorities, NHS organisations, Welsh Government, third-sector organisations, and community groups.
• Support co-production activities, including engagement with people with lived experience, carers, and frontline practitioners, where appropriate.
• Contribute to ethics, governance, and data-sharing processes.

Monitoring of financial controls:

• Support monitoring of research budgets, resource use, and project costings.
• Contribute to the development of costing, pricing, and economic sections of funding applications and project proposals.

Other role-specific duties:

• Actively contribute to grant capture by providing economic, methodological, and value-for-money input to funding bids.
• Develop, strengthen, and sustain internal and external networks to support collaborative research, funding opportunities, and applied impact.

Other Duties and Responsibilities

• The post holder will be expected to participate in performance review and developmental activities.
• The post holder will be expected to comply with the University’s equality policies and statements, Dignity at Work and Study Policy and the University’s Welsh Language Scheme.
• The post holder has a general and legal duty of care in relation to health, safety and wellbeing and must take all reasonable steps to ensure a safe and healthy working environment for themselves self and for other members of staff, students and visitors affected by their actions or inactions. The post holder is also required to comply with all applicable health and safety policies, procedures and risk assessments.
• The post holder must comply with relevant legal and financial policies and procedures and be aware of their responsibilities in terms of the legal requirements of their post.

Person Specification

Qualifications / Training

Essential:

• PhD (or close to completion) in health economics, social policy, economics, public health, or a related discipline.
• Equivalent applied research experience will be considered.

Desirable:

• Formal training in health or social care economic evaluation.
• Training in quantitative or statistical methods.
• Experience of working in a social care setting.

Experience / Knowledge

Essential:

• Experience of applied mixed methods analysis in health and/or social care.
• Experience of economic evaluation methods.
• Evidence of academic outputs (publications, reports, or equivalent).
• Experience of working with real-world or administrative data.

Desirable:

• Experience of working on externally funded research projects.
• Knowledge of UK or Welsh health and social care systems.
• Experience producing policy-facing outputs.
• Experience of grant capture.

Skills / Abilities

Essential:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to interpret and present mixed methods findings clearly.
• Ability to manage workload and meet deadlines.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and interpersonal skills.

Desirable:

• Project management skills.
• Experience with statistical or economic software (e.g. Stata, R, Excel).
• Experience contributing to funding applications.

Other

Essential:

• Understanding of Welsh culture and policy context.
• This post is subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check.

Desirable:

• The ability to communicate in Welsh is desirable for this post.
• Driving license

General

The University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. We believe this can be achieved through attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds. We strive to develop a workforce from all sections of the community regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, trans identity, relationship status, religion or belief, caring responsibilities, or age. We promote and facilitate the use of the Welsh language through our progressive Welsh Language Policy. We comply with the Welsh Language Standards and are committed to equality of opportunity. You are welcome to apply for any job in English or Welsh and all applications submitted will be treated equally.

We are a member of Advance HE's Athena SWAN Gender Equality charter and hold a Silver award in recognition of our commitment to and progress towards gender equality within the University's policies, practices, and culture. We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer.

All members of staff have a duty to ensure their actions are in line with the overall environmental aims of the University and minimise their environmental impact.

All offers are made subject to proof of eligibility to work in the UK and receipt of satisfactory references.

We have a legal responsibility to ensure that you have the right to work in the UK before you can start working for us. When you apply for this post you will be required to explain the basis upon which you believe you will able to live and work in the UK legally on the commencement date of the role should your application be successful. If you do not have the right to work freely in any position in the UK already, any offer of employment we will make to you will be subject to you obtaining a right to work visa. The following link provides information on the various visa routes into employment and the eligibility requirements (including switching visa status where permissible) https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas.

If you are successful in your application we will discuss visa options with you at the time of making the offer of employment. Candidates should also note that they may be required to apply for an ATAS certificate (Academic Approval Technology Scheme) from the Counter-Proliferation and Arms Control Centre of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office before being able to apply for a visa - https://www.gov.uk/guidance/academic-technology-approval-scheme

Please note that, in the event of applications being received from candidates on the University's Redeployment Register with a reasonable skills match to the post specification, these applicants will be given prior consideration.

Disclosure & Barring Service

This post is subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check. As Bangor University meets the requirements in respect of exempted questions under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, all applicants who are offered employment will be subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) before the appointment is confirmed. This will include details of cautions, reprimands or final warnings as well as convictions. DBS checks will be updated every 3 years.

Candidates should note that the University uses an external Umbrella body to process DBS checks. As such you should be aware that, if successful in your application, your name and e-mail contact details will be shared with the Umbrella body in order that they may contact you to start the application process.