Research Associate: Black Women's Health Manifesto

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Job Description Research Associate:
Black Women's Health Manifesto Advert Reference Number: 2012

Job Location:

Milton Keynes Department: HWSC Research Team Salary: £38,784 (pro-rata for part time hours) Closing Date: 5 November 2026 Weekly

Working Hours:

20 Contract Type:
Fixed Term Contract Fixed Term

Contract:

End Date: 31 July 2027 Welsh Language:
Not Applicable

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This post requires a commitment of 88 days until 31st July 2027. Based on a start date of mid December, the successful candidate would work 0.54

FTE (20 hours per week) however this may change should the start date get pushed back.

The successful applicant will have methodological expertise in community engagement, qualitative data analysis and communication skills.

You will join the Black Women’s Health & Wellbeing Research Group within the Faculty of Wellbeing Education and Language Studies at the Open University led by Professor Jenny Douglas and The Black Women’s Health Manifesto Collective. The aim is to produce the Black Women’s Health Manifesto and disseminate this at national conferences across the UK and Ireland. The national conferences will bring together Black women researchers, activists, policy makers, practitioners, health professionals, politicians and journalists in each country of the UK and Ireland to implement the Black women’s health manifesto and produce national movements for change.

You will be a mixed methods researcher with significant proven expertise in qualitative and quantitative research. You will have a high level of communication and writing skills appropriate for different audiences and be able to work closely with other team members. You will require a high degree of autonomy and have the ability to work sensitively and develop rapport and trust with research participants from different backgrounds.

You will be required to think creatively.

Further information regarding the role can be obtained from Professor Jenny Douglas ().

Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Undertake a thematic analysis of the Black Women’s Health Manifesto community consultations and listening exercises previously undertaken.
• Develop a database on Black Women’s Health & Wellbeing Organisation and publish this on the Black Women’s Health and Wellbeing Research Network website.
• Support the Black Women’s Health Manifesto Coordinator to draft the Black Women’s Health Manifesto and a policy instrument for Black Women’s Health and Wellbeing.
• Contribute to the scoping review of the Wellcome Research Project and join the steering Group of the Wellcome Research Project.
• Support the Black Women’s Health Manifesto Coordinator with establishing national planning groups in the UK and Ireland; planning and delivering National conferences to disseminate the Black Women’s Health Manifesto; producing a report for each national dissemination conference; and producing a Health Improvement Framework for Black Women’s Health & Wellbeing.
• Plan and carry out online interviews with members of the Black Women’s Health & Wellbeing Research Network.
• Contribute to high‑quality academic articles and papers for publication.
• Contribute to and help to produce quality non‑academic outputs including, for example, knowledge products for national and international donor, policymaker, and practitioner…