Post Doctoral Position: Health Service Innovation and Co-Design

Post Doctoral Position: Health Service Innovation and Co-Design

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12 Jul 30 Aug Enschede

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Job description

The Opportunity

The project coordinator and Dutch Project Investigator of the Ageing Right Care(fully) seeks an enthusiastic postdoctoral researcher to join our interdisciplinary, international project, which has received funding from NWO under the framework of the co-fund partnership of Transforming Health and Care Systems of the EU Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme. The successful applicant will work in the Interaction Design Research Group, Department of Design, Production and Management, Faculty of Engineering Technology.

Ageing Right Care(fully) is a transnational research project which will explore and map an understanding of the care pathways between ageing in place and hospitalization of older adults in the Netherlands, Israel, and Sweden. The study compares the demographics, policy structure, decision-making process, and the crucial role of the built, social and technological environments along the home-to-hospital care pathways of older adults ageing in place in three regions. This future-focused research approach will allow stakeholders to rethink and imagine ways that health and care systems can be personalized and responsive to the future needs of older adult populations. This role is a unique opportunity to contribute to the development of innovative healthcare systems, develop new research methodologies that directly impact policy and shape the future of built, social and technological environments for older people in the future.

The Role
This two-year full-time* post-doc position will support the Principal Investigator (PI) in the Netherlands and work with the international project consortium to fulfil project deliverables and work packages for the project. In this role, you will undertake quantitative, qualitative and service design research to gain insight into at-home hospital practices in the Netherlands. To understand the current landscape of at-home hospital care in the Netherlands, you will identify, extract and combine quantitative data indicators from pre-existing databases as a basis of a cumulative indicator. You will also co-create patient journey maps with older adults who have received at-home hospital care. This task will involve qualitative data collection using mixed methods and visualization, which you will thematically analyze. In addition, you will support the with project tasks including communication, visualization, dashboarding report-writing, planning for a final project event in the Netherlands and the synthesis of material into insights to feed into service design and policy development. In addition, you will be provided opportunities to lead and assist with project publications and policy outputs plus attend up to two site visits and/or conferences.

*possibility to work on a 0.75 FTE basis for a more extended period of time

Specifications

University of Twente (UT)

Requirements

  • Enthusiastic about healthcare transformation and the care of older adults ageing in place now and in the future.
  • Completed PhD in social sciences, design, healthcare management, or a related discipline, with a focus on design thinking or system/ service design.
  • Have a track record of mixed method research, including quantitative databases, conducting qualitative interviews, co-design tools and methods and analysis
  • Be confident in supporting the recruitment and facilitation of co-design activities in Dutch with older adults and stakeholders.
  • Have a theoretical understanding of design research, ethnography and fieldwork practices, plus strong analytical skills needed to collect and process qualitative data.
  • Have an emerging track record of publications and presentations appropriate to your career stage, and you will be able to communicate effectively with non-academic stakeholders.
  • Proven ability to work effectively within interdisciplinary teams and to communicate with a broad range of stakeholders.
  • Proficiency in Dutch and English, essential for conducting qualitative interviews and engaging with international research communities.

Conditions of employment

  • A full-time 2-year position as a post-doctoral researcher (or longer if part-time).
  • Gross salary between € 3.877,- and € 5.090,- per month depending on experience and qualifications.
  • An annual holiday allowance of 8% of the gross annual salary, and an annual year-end bonus of 8.3%
  • A minimum of 29 holidays.
  • Professional and personal development programs.
  • Proximity to Enschede, a mid-size city with a large social offer, immersed in the nature of the Twente region.
  • High-quality training programs on general skills, didactics and topics related to design research.
  • Partially paid parental leave and an allowance for commuting, working from home and internet costs

Specifications

  • Postdoc
  • Engineering
  • 32—40 hours per week
  • €3887—€5090 per month
  • Doctorate
  • 1852

Employer

University of Twente (UT)

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Drienerlolaan 5, 7522NB, Enschede

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