"Professor (B) in Health Design"

Maynooth University seeks an outstanding academic to join our staff as Professor (B) in Health Design. This is an opportunity for you to shape our research, teaching and impact in the field of Health Design. You will be embedded in a large community of design and business academics, and our growing field of Health and Wellbeing across the University. This role fits into a strategy of sustained investment and growth in capacity in both Design Innovation and the School of Business, resulting in growth in education programmes, research grants, research impact and multiple awards by students (e.g. Dyson Innovation awards) and staff for their work. This is one of three new Health and Wellbeing Professorships in the Faculty of Social Sciences, as part of our commitment to deepen capacity and impact in this field.

The University is making a strategic investment in the field of Health and Wellbeing, involving creation of new education programmes, and widening our research impact in this field. Together, the Health and Wellbeing Professors will collaborate across Departments, Schools and the wider University to strengthen interdisciplinary research, education and engagement, and to maximise collective societal impact in this area.

Maynooth University is committed to a strategy in which the primary university goals of excellent research and scholarship and outstanding education are interlinked and equally valued. Professors will be expected to provide significant intellectual leadership, through a demonstrated commitment to both education and research, and also to contribute to the effective leadership and management of the department, the faculty and the university.

This new Professor post is part of the university commitment to our Health and Wellbeing research beacon of our Strategic Plan 2023-28. The appointee will contribute research informed, practice engaged, education and societal impact that demonstrates Maynooth University’s impact in the Health and Wellbeing of Ireland and Europe.

We seek an exceptional internationally recognised scholar with an outstanding portfolio of high-ranking publications, significant grant awards, and evidence of demonstrable impact on health policy, governance, and systems transformation; and evidence of excellent service must include leadership in programme development that has generated scale in students, and internationalisation. This is a unique opportunity to shape a growing field at the intersection of design, health, and systems innovation. This post supports Maynooth University’s strategic goals in research excellence, societal impact, enhancing teaching and learning, and internationalisation.