Be part of a vibrant, fast-growing research environment.
Join our vibrant, fast-growing research environment and help us transform health and social care services, interventions and outcomes through outstanding research delivered alongside sector partners.
Read on to find out more about Manchester Metropolitan University as the ideal academic home for your research.
For an informal discussion about Health and Social Care, please contact Faculty Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Saul Becker.
Our research priorities
We’re looking to recruit exceptional candidates, including academics in nursing and allied health and professionally qualified academics in social work – to build a transformational academic career.
You can work anywhere across the broad field of health and social care, but we have specific opportunities in:
- Health/Public health/Global health: Areas include health and social care-related economics and economic impact assessment; simulation; nursing, public health, social care and rehabilitation; global health; and health inequalities.
- Social work and social: Areas across social work and social care, particularly learning disabilities and autism and the social aspects of ageing.
- Mental health: Areas such as mental health inequalities and social aspects of mental health and across the life course.
- Communication, development and disabilities: In the context of a strong research and innovation-applied clinical health environment, we are building capacity in language and communication development and disabilities.
- Psychological approaches to research: Applications to health and social care research such as epidemiology and intervention design.
Our global research impact
Our interdisciplinary research promotes social justice and inclusion, and challenges social and health inequalities to transform people’s lives and opportunities.
The work we do is underpinned by theoretical rigour and is recognised for its ethos of co-creation and innovation.
Our work has been influential globally, nationally and importantly, across our region and place. Here are some examples of our projects:
Psychologist and epidemiologist, Professor Rebecca Pearson, integrates traditional epidemiological methods and new technologies to understand the relationships between parenting and mental health in children and adolescents. Her innovative work on wearable technologies, like headcams, has been employed to measure parent–infant behaviour. Her collaboration with the Chilean Ministry of Health influenced mental health policy in Chile.
In Nursing and Public Health, Professor Michelle McManus recently gave oral evidence to the parliamentary inquiry into Children’s Social Care to examine the current system and potential for reform, drawing on her extensive research in this area.
Professor Nicola Ray’s work on movement disorders focuses on brain activity in Parkinson’s disease. With funding including a major current MRC grant, her lab works in partnership with the Northern Care Alliance and directly with patients to ensure its research has the maximum impact.
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Everything is accessible in Manchester, both socially and in terms of access to world-leading experts, and collaborations with other universities, industry and local government. It’s a place where sport and health research can make a big impact.
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Our reputation is built on inclusive and impactful research that engages with critical issues of our time and makes a positive contribution to culture, society and the economy.
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At the heart of our mission is transforming lives, businesses, and communities. We are looking for colleagues who share this vision and have the drive to ensure their research delivers real-world benefits and lasting societal impact.