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Post Summary
This Post-Doctoral Research Fellow post is part of a Health Research Board-funded project based on St James’s Hospital campus as a collaboration between Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing, GUIDE clinic and Trinity College Dublin School of Medicine, led by Prof David Robinson and Dr Louise Brennan (PI).
The project is titled ‘Understanding and Addressing Mental Health, Loneliness and Quality of Life in Older People Living with HIV in Ireland: A Pathway to Social Prescribing’ and is a mixed methods study of mental wellbeing in older people living with HIV (PLWH) in Ireland with an aim to designing a social prescribing intervention for this cohort.
The successful candidate will have a background in health research and ideally a keen interest in at least one of the three core area of research: HIV, mental health and social prescribing. Experience in survey data analysis and/or qualitative data analysis, and a background in healthcare is desirable but candidates will be considered on the merits of their overall experience and capabilities.
Hours of Work: 39 hours per week (full-time)
Location: Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing (MISA), St James’s Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland.
Salary: Appointment will be made on the IUA Post-Doctoral Researcher Scale, PD2 Point 1 (€55,399), in line with Government Pay Policy.
Application Procedure
Applicants should submit a full Curriculum Vitae to include the names and contact details of 2 referees (including email addresses), to:-
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