Director of Research in New Technologies in Healthcare

Operating at a level equivalent to professor (grade 12), you will have the vision, leadership experience and enthusiasm to develop and maintain an externally funded research programme, carrying out original and innovative studies and actively contributing to advancement of the field. With responsibility for designing and directing high impact studies, you will identify and secure research funding. You will ensure coherence, focus and dialogue across the institute’s portfolio of research. Leading teams of multidisciplinary researchers, you will create strategic partnerships, working collaboratively with a range of stakeholders, including NHS organisations, patient and public groups, and charitable and civil society organisations. You will lead in particular on strategic development of an online collaborative community, using some of the principles of open source software development to coordinate debates, discussions and definitions of standards, safety, ethics, regulation, and good practice relating to new technologies in healthcare, for example in the area of ambient voice technology.

You will be a skilled researcher with a strong track record in income generation, publications and impact, and in leading large, complex research programmes. You will have a strong background in safety science and regulatory studies and the ability to collaborate effectively in mixed-methods, multidisciplinary studies. You will be able to work effectively with diverse collaborations, have excellent analytical and communication skills, and can work at pace across a wide variety of topics and activities. Some policy experience would be an advantage.

Funds for this post are available until 31 March 2028 in the first instance. The post-holder will be based at THIS Institute, Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge.