Public Engagement Involvement and Co-production Associate

Posting

Start Date:

12/11/2026

Job

School/Department:
Education

Work Arrangement:
Part Time (Hybrid)

Contract Type:
Fixed-term

Closing Date: 02/12/2026

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Job Description

Public Engagement Involvement and Co-production Associate

Overview

We seek a Public Engagement and Involvement (PEI) and Co-Production Associate for the School for Social Care Research (SSCR) and the ESRC Centre for Care at the University of Sheffield. You will shape and develop applied adult social care research and will work across the SSCR and Centre for Care, to support and enhance public involvement and co-production. We welcome applications from people with lived experience of giving or receiving care, or as a care worker, with experience of co-production with people who seek or use services and/or social care practitioners.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Coordinate the public engagement and involvement, and co-production activities across the SSCR by working with people with lived experience, social care practitioners, the SSCR leadership team, professional services colleagues and people working in social care and other partner organisations
• Be the main point of contact for our partners with lived experience and be responsible for maintaining excellent working relationships
• Promote public engagement and involvement, co-production and impact throughout the work of the SSCR by developing strong relationships with partners
• Support the development of public engagement and involvement co-production methods (such as the development of accessible information and research methods, working in collaboration with partners, seeking their advice and acting on it and establishing and maintaining good relationships with partners ) in the work of the SSCR by working closely with members of the public, social care practitioners and academics.
• Support academic colleagues to work with people who have lived experience, social care practitioners (and vice-versa) to deliver co-designed research and impact activity, such as co-producing research design, delivery and analysis
• Organise and facilitate workshops and focus groups with partners
• Support data collection and the secure storage of data on a day-to-day basis, where appropriate, ensuring GDPR compliance.
• Collaborate with people with lived experience, social care practitioners, and with the SSCR leadership team, professional services colleagues and partner organisation, on knowledge translation of key findings and recommendations.
• Assist with, and submit, applications for ethical approval.
• Develop methods and approaches to analysis within research projects, in co-production with participants, social care practitioners and members of the public, that are accessible to these groups
• Support SSCR colleagues to embed the principles of public engagement and involvement, co-production and impact in grant applications
• Liaise closely, regularly, and in a timely manner with people with lived experience, practice partners and the SSCR project research teams, and relevant professional staff throughout the SSCR.
• Undertake training and development appropriate to prior…