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Vacancy for a Professor in Dementia Research

Professor in Dementia Research

Attractive salary package within the professorial scale

Working in the School of Applied Social Science and in close collaboration with the Dementia Services Development Centre, the successful applicant will play a key role in delivery of Research and Knowledge Exchange. You will be an accomplished senior academic with an excellent international record in research. You will share our passion for working internationally and nationally to improve standards of care and support for people with dementia and those who care for them.

Further details and information on how to apply are available on http://www.stir.ac.uk/about/jobs/list.php

Informal enquiries can be made to Professor Alison Bowes, Head of School of Applied Social Science on or on 01786 467709.

Closing date for applications is Friday 17th February 2012

Please Quote Reference no: SCH00027

Description of Duties

Working in the School of Applied Social Science and in close collaboration with Dementia Services Development Centre, directed by Professor June Andrews, the successful applicant will play a key role in delivery of Research and Knowledge Exchange by:

• Building research capacity by attracting significant levels of research investment and funding.
• Leading and developing members of a core team – the Dementia and Social Gerontology Research Group - of dementia researchers and post-graduate students in pursuit of research which identifies, designs and disseminates best practice in dementia care, and which can inform policy makers and practitioners nationally and internationally.
• Leading multi-disciplinary research and knowledge exchange across the University, working with colleagues in Psychology, Nursing, Midwifery and Health, Applied Social Science, Sports Studies, Economics, Computing Science and Social Marketing ensuring high-impact activity.
• Engaging with key stakeholders and providers of dementia services.
• Working with the Dementia Services Development Centre Director, and with the Research and Enterprise Office to identify, generate and secure new research and knowledge transfer opportunities.
• Providing supervision to research students.
• Assisting with the management and delivery of education programmes in Dementia Studies, including the Certificate, Diploma and MSc programmes.

Essential Criteria

• proven qualities of leadership in research
• a track record in attracting significant levels of high-quality research funding
• been engaged in a sustained programme of research, regularly producing outputs that meet the REF criteria of international excellence
• significant publications in high quality peer reviewed journals
• evidence of working in a multidisciplinary team at a senior level
• evidence of capacity to manage and develop a team
• evidence of a national and international reputation relevant to the post
• demonstrated a capacity to turn evidence into practice
• experience of research student supervision
• knowledge and understanding of dementia and/or health and social care systems in the UK and beyond

How to Apply

Further details about how to apply can be found online at: http://www.stir.ac.uk/about/jobs/list.php

The University

Founded by Royal Charter in 1967, the University, near the ancient city of Stirling was the first genuinely new university in Scotland for over 400 years. Located in the geographical heart of Scotland, the stunning campus location provides a unique learning and working environment, combined with excellent UK, European and world-wide transport links, via Edinburgh and Glasgow. Since its foundation, Stirling’s approach has been one of innovation and excellence. The University has embraced its role as an intellectual and cultural institution, combining science, arts and humanities within its research and education activities. The University of Stirling has a current enrolment of over 11,000 students, provides over 150 degree and professional programmes delivered through 8 academic schools and offers a research-led curriculum that attracts the highest calibre of students to study in our fields of health and wellbeing, the environment and people, culture and society, enterprise and the economy, and sport. The University of Stirling also attracts a large number of international students. There are currently 2,800 students from over 100 nationalities across five continents. The University’s global links extend to a wide range of research and education collaborations and partnerships in over 100 countries.

About the School of Applied Social Science

It is an integrated multi-disciplinary grouping of over 50 academic staff with research and teaching interests in sociology, social policy, criminology, housing studies, social work and dementia. The School received the highest possible ratings for Sociology and Social Work in the most recent teaching quality exercises. As a result of RAE2008, 55% of the department’s research outputs submitted were judged to be internationally excellent at 4* and 3* and, in total, 95% of the research outputs were judged worthy of international recognition. The applied social scientific research undertaken in the School is grouped under six main headings: Crime and Justice; Childhoods, Families and Relationships; Social Surveys and Social Statistics; Governance, Participation and Inclusion; Scottish Addiction Studies; and Dementia and Social Gerontology.

Full details of the research work undertaken by these groups can be found on the School’s website, http://www.dass.stir.ac.uk

Within these broad groupings the School has an international reputation for its research work on social gerontology, social responses to dementia, children and young people, child welfare and protection, families and relationships, problem solving justice, women in prisons, violence against women, qualitative research with a variety of service users, the reuse of qualitative social survey data sets, inclusionary policy and governance, housing studies, minorities experiences of social services and exclusion, social and ethnic identity and quantitative longitudinal analysis of large scale social survey data sets. This work is both theoretical and applied, and is pursued through multi-disciplinary, collaborative, participatory and comparative working.

In addition to providing Honours degrees in Sociology and Social Policy and Criminology, the School offers programmes leading to a range of combined Honours Degrees, and an undergraduate degree in Social Work. The School also offers postgraduate programmes in Applied Social Research, Housing Studies, Dementia Studies, Criminology, and Social Work. There are also MSc and PhD degrees by research and through a professional doctorate programme. The Masters Degree in Applied Social Research is recognised by the ESRC for research training purposes. The School is recognised for ESRC studentships and has a lively community of postgraduate research students.

The School also has an international reputation in relation to dementia research and teaching, work which is undertaken by the Dementia Services Development Centre in the internationally recognised Iris Murdoch Building. The Dementia Services Development Centre receives additional support from the Dementia Services Development Trust, a funding body which exists to extend and improve services for people with dementia and their carers. The Centre develops new areas of practice and then makes this expertise widely available. It also offers information, training, change management, conferences, consultancy, and seminars, all of which provide opportunities to disseminate the latest thinking in dementia care. Stirling’s Dementia Services Development Centre works internationally and nationally to improve standards of care and support for people with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia and those who care for them. The Centre works closely with Government and with policy makers and practitioners in the UK and beyond. It also works with a wide range of charities and stakeholder organisations worldwide with an interest in the provision of services to, or welfare of people with dementia and their carers.

Further information on the School of Applied Social Science can be found at www.dass.stir.ac.uk.

Further information about the Dementia Services Development Centre, can be found on the website at www.dementia.stir.ac.uk.

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