We have a fixed term part time (40%, 1^st April 2024 to 31^st March 2025) researcher role (grade f, £41,732 up to £44,263 (pro rata)) working with Ruth Garside and team, on green social prescribing. Job reference P92069.

The successful candidate will undertake crucial preparatory and feasibility work to design a future evaluation of a complex intervention – Green Social Prescribing. They will work closely with colleagues at the University of Exeter and University of Plymouth, as well as key stakeholders including those at Defra, the National Academy of Social Prescribing and NHSC, to articulate the needs and challenges around designing research to establish the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, together with a process evaluation, of Green Social Prescribing. A key output of this work will be a protocol for a definitive experimental trial, process evaluation, and assessment of cost effectiveness/utility.

You will:

• organise and facilitate stakeholder engagement events online and/or in person in order to understand the key priorities and questions for future research
• use existing data to develop a populated pathway map of movement of participants through existing green social prescribing pathways
• organise, conduct and analyse interviews with key stakeholder groups
• use The PRagmatic-Explanatory Continuum Indicator Summary 2 (PRECIS-2) tool to support trial design decisions (Loudon et al. 2015)

To apply visit the University’s recruitment pages. Job reference P92069

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Ruth Garside, r.garside@exeter.ac.uk.