Research and Innovation Associate

Nottingham Trent University - Psychology - School of Social Sciences

Placed On: 4th February 2026
Closes: 1st March 2026
Job Ref: 552086

Location: City Campus

Employment type: Fixed Term Contract

About the Role

We are seeking an enthusiastic and skilled Research & Innovation Associate to join the UKRI Medical Research Council–funded REConnectED project, a mixed methods feasibility study of a novel peer supported online group intervention designed to support adults recovering from eating disorders. You’ll be joining the REConnectED project at an exciting moment, helping us understand how a peer supported online group can make a real difference to people recovering from eating disorders. Your role sits at the heart of a mixed methods feasibility study, where you’ll be involved in everything from shaping research materials to working directly with partners across the UK and Ireland.

Working closely with the project’s PI and wider team you’ll play a key part in bringing the intervention to life, supporting facilitator training and helping ensure sessions run as intended. You’ll collaborate with NHS clinicians, voluntary sector partners, peer supporters, and people with lived experience, fostering positive and professional relationships across the project. You’ll be involved in both qualitative and quantitative data collection, speaking directly with participants and facilitators in interviews while also helping to manage and monitor survey data. As the project progresses you’ll contribute to analysing both sets of data, working with the PI to understand how the intervention is experienced, what works well and what may need refining ahead of future evaluation.
You’ll be part of a collaborative and supportive environment contributing to project meetings and helping prepare reports, publications and accessible summaries for academic, clinical, voluntary sector and lived experience audiences. This is a role where curiosity, empathy and strong communication skills really matter and where your contributions will help shape a new approach to supporting recovery.

Interview date: W/C 16th March

About Us

NTU Psychology is recognised nationally and internationally for delivering theoretically informed and applied research. Within the UK we are the largest provider of full-time undergraduate degrees in psychology. Our pre-covid NSS scores for overall satisfaction was above 90% for eight years and since covid have been ahead of the sector average and sector benchmarks. We provide a learning experience of the highest quality to our students and pride ourselves as being at the forefront of sector innovations in teaching and learning. As a department we have co-written the introductory Essential Psychology textbook for SAGE, recently completing the 4th edition.

Our excellence is recognised internationally, with the recent QS 2023 World University rankings, putting us in the top 150 departments for psychology worldwide. At NTU Psychology we are committed to quality, diversity and inclusion and have achieved Athena SWAN recognition at the department level. You will be joining a very large, lively, diverse, collegiate and ambitious team. Colleagues in the department have a range of backgrounds, spanning most areas of psychology, which is reflected in the range of our research groups and our course portfolio.

Safe and Inclusive

Please note that unfortunately, this role has been assessed as ineligible for sponsorship under the UK Visas & Immigration points-based immigration system however, we recommend that you assess your eligibility before applying for this position.