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Applications are invited from candidates interested in pursuing research in a post funded by the Office of the Chief Clinical Officer: Planning of the Irish Health Services Executive. The grant was awarded to the Centre for Innovative Human Systems, School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin.
The successful candidate will join a research team working on the PRACTICE (Process Redesign and Clinical Transformation through Iterative Co-Design and Evaluation) project.
The aims of PRACTICE are:
1. To iteratively co-create the healthcare design process through an action research project where researchers engage with a small number of clinical design teams as they carry out their work.
2. To deliver training/education to support both co-creation process and the embedding of design expertise in the CDIT.
3. To produce a “Healthcare Design Toolbox” to support transfer of knowledge to other design teams.
The project is approaching the mid-way point of its three-year duration.
Application Procedure
Applicants should submit a cover letter and full Curriculum Vitae (in pdf format) to:
Name: Paula Hicks, Centre for Innovative Human Systems
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