Exchange Fellow - in six partner institutions

Job description

ShaKEs
- Sha red Knowledge Exchange(KE) Services:
Small Modern and Specialist Institutions –

Knowledge Exchange Fellow (Creative Industries and Health and Social Care) – Grade 8 (£44,746 - £56,535)

Fixed Term (6 Months) November 2026 to April 2027. You must be available to start in November 2026. Hours 28.6
-35.75 per week (Negotiable) .

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Internal recruitment /secondment and open to staff in any of the six partner institutions
- Abertay University, Glasgow School of Art, Queen Margaret University, Robert Gordon University, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and University of the Highlands and Islands.

Are you passionate about the convergence of creative industries and health and social care as an untapped key and timely innovation opportunity in Scotland?

The ShaKEs partnership is seeking a visionary Knowledge Exchange (KE) Fellow to provide academic leadership in KE to build cross-institutional collaboration and capacity across the ShaKEs partner institutions, identifying complementary strengths and bringing together academics and external partners to develop collaborative KE activities and proposals in Health and Social Care and Creative Industries, aligned with Scottish Government economic and policy priorities.

In this role, you will champion innovative methodologies that challenge traditional industry paradigms, translating applied research into interdisciplinary, disruptive outcomes for commercial, cultural and societal application. With a background in Health and Social Care or Creative Industries you will bring creativity, tenacity, and a drive for innovation to design and deliver transformative, approaches. Employed by any of the ShaKEs partner institutions but working across the collaboration and with the Digital Health and Care Innovation Centre you will act as the primary connector between internal academic teams and external partners, practice, communities, industry and policymakers.

ShaKEsisan exciting new consortium of the six smallest higher education institutions in Scotland-Abertay University,Glasgow School of Art, Queen Margaret University, Robert Gordon University, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and University of the Highlands and Islands; plus Edinburgh College,representing the college sector.

We are committed to the intersection of skills, research, innovation and place, guided by new Scottish Government Community Wealth Building (CWB) principles to secure social and environmental as well as economic outcomes, and share learning across Scotland’s tertiary sector.

Funded by the Scottish Funding Council , ShaKEsaims to shareand increase access tomuch needed fit-for-purpose specialistinnovationinfrastructure,providing an opportunity tofurtherthe Scottish Government innovation ambitions as outlined in the National Innovation Strategy , Entrepreneurial Campus Blueprint , National Strategy for Economic Transformation , in addition to the delivery of the wellbeing outcomes in the National Performance Framework .

Further Information on the ShaKEs webpage.

For informal enquiries please contact any of the Institutional Leads listed on the webpage.

Closing Date: 7 October 2026

Interview Dates: week of 19 October 2026

This role does not meet the minimum requirements set by UKVI to enable sponsorship of migrant workers. Therefore, we can/cannot progress applications from candidates who require sponsorship to work in the UK.

As a university, we are committed to the Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers alongside Concordat to Support Research Integrity and were, in fact, the first Scottish Higher Education Institute (and part of the first UK cohort of institutes) to publicly declare our commitment to its principles.

Queen Margaret University is committed to equality of opportunity for all by providing a supportive, flexible and inclusive working environment, and we welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds. Please have a look at our Diversity, Wellbeing and Inclusion Calendar

We are proud to hold an Athena SWAN Bronze Award which recognises the advancement of gender equality d out more about Athena SWAN here

We have a number of family friendly policies and are happy to consider job share applications.

We are a Disability Confident Employer, should you require any specific arrangements during the recruitment process please contact Human Resources on