ShaKEs Exchange Fellow; Creative Industries and Health and Socal Care

Salary range

Duration

Duration 6 months

Working hours

Working hours 28.6 - 35.75 per week (Negotiable)

Closing Date

Closing Date 7 October 2026

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).

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.

ShaKEs is an 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.

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

Closing Date: 7 October 2026

Interview Dates: w/c 19 October 2026

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

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 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

Interviews will be held w/c 19 October 2026.