Faculty Research Fellowship in Cancer, Palliative and End-Of-Life Care at University of Southampton

Faculty Research Fellowship in Cancer, Palliative and End-Of-Life Care at University of Southampton

Overview
Faculty Research Fellowship: a career development post in health and cognate social and natural sciences.

The Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Southampton is one of the largest and most successful of its kind in the UK. We have a world class faculty committed to improving health outcomes and transforming health services. We offer superb facilities for research and teaching in one of the UK`s leading research universities. We have three thriving research groups and we are committed to building on our national and international research reputation, and are investing in new posts at every level.

To build on our success we want to appoint a Faculty Research Fellow - in the health sciences and their cognate social and natural science disciplines - to join our research groups and contribute to their development and to new programmes of work. A Faculty Research Fellowship is a career development post that provides an opportunity to develop a personal profile of research and publication while working collaboratively with outstanding researchers in the following area: Cancer, palliative and end-of-life care (one post).

This research career development post is designed to provide an opportunity to develop a personal research plan, gain external funding and publish high quality papers. You will be expected to contribute to teaching in your specialist areas (around 30%). The post is for five years with the expectation that you will become an independent researcher of national/international repute.

You will be working at postdoctoral level and beginning to build a portfolio of publications and grant income. You will receive professorial mentorship, support from expert collaborators within the research groups and access to specialist laboratory and technical facilities (as appropriate).

If you would like to discuss this post informally please contact Evelyne Anthony by email: ea@soton.ac.uk who will arrange for you to speak to the relevant professor.

For further information about the Faculty of Health Sciences, please see http://www.southampton.ac.uk/healthsciences/research/groups/index.shtml

To apply online visit www.jobs.soton.ac.uk

Please submit your CV and a cover letter explaining how your interests and ambitions fit with the Faculty`s research. Please quote the reference number on all correspondence.

The closing date for this position is 24 November 2010 at 12 noon.

Interviews will be held in mid December 2010.