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  • INNOVATEDIGNITY-ITN

INNOVATEDIGNITY-ITN PhD Studentships

On behalf of the INNOVATEDIGNITY-ITN, The University of Brighton is pleased to announce the recruitment of 15 Marie Sklodowska-Curie (MSCA) PhD positions (Early Stage Researchers).

INNOVATEDIGNITY-ITN’s consortium is made up of caring science scholars working on experiential perspectives of human dignity, care and wellbeing from nine institutions in five European Union countries: Sweden, Denmark, Greece and the United Kingdom with Norway and nine partners in four countries for training and secondments: Greece, UK, Sweden and Denmark. The Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) will be hosted at the beneficiary institutions of the INNOVATEDIGNITY- ITN.

  • University of Brighton, UK
  • Linneuniversitetet, Sweden
  • Hoegskolan Boras, Sweden
  • Birmingham City University, UK
  • Bournemouth University, UK
  • University of Ioannina, Greece
  • Nord Universitet, Norway
  • Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
  • Aalborg Universitet, Denmark

The purpose of INNOVATEDIGNITY-ITN, funded by the European Commission (2019–2023), is to develop a shared research and training agenda in order to educate the next generation of interdisciplinary health care researchers and care leaders across Europe. The project is a response to the Europe-wide need to provide sustainable and dignified care for older people at home and in residential, municipal and hospital settings.

The network will look in detail at how older people currently experience care, how they can be supported to live well and how technology, gender, workforce pressures and institutional factors can impact experiences of dignity and wellbeing. INNOVATEDIGNITY-ITN will research new ways of engaging with older people to shape digital developments, will examine new kinds of care delivery, including long-term residential care and rapid transitions from acute hospital care to home, gender imbalances and workforce sustainability to create new forms of care activities that include participatory models and co-design with older people in response to the growing lack of sustainability in older person care and evidence of current care failings.

Through co-supervision by academics and non-academic partners, INNOVATEDIGNITY-ITN ESRs will engage in critical, practical and policy impact exploration of the contribution and the reach of their individual doctoral study projects to respond to three interconnecting research themes.

  1. Dignity within digital innovation
  2. Living well in care systems
  3. Gender and sustainable care

In addition to undertaking a doctoral research degree, the ESRs will engage in a series of collaborative research and training events to develop advanced skills and expertise in tackling challenges linked to innovations in dignified, sustainable care systems for older people. They will also participate in collaborative project groups to provide, for example, analyses of national-level statistical data and to make full use of older peoples’ insights to lead care innovation.

Please note this is a general call for the whole ITN INNOVATEDIGNITY. More specific requirements for individual selection criteria and information on financial support and remuneration will be available at the shortlisted stage.

Key facts

Themes: Living well in older person care systems; Dignity within digital innovation; Gender and sustainable care.

School of Health Sciences

Brighton HealthyHealthy Futures Futures

University of Brighton Research Portal

Deadline 11:59 (CET) 14 March 2019

Interviews (at host institutions) April and May 2019

Starting date 01 September 2019

Entry requirements and benefits

The ESRs should apply for doctoral study in a maximum of two of the 15 projects offered by the nine hosting institutions. See the job description on the University of Brighton's vacancies page for details of all projects and supervisors.

In addition to the below, it is a requirement of the funding that applicants cannot have spent more than 12 months in the country of the hosting institute in the three years immediately before 01 September 2019. 

The candidate must:

  • have good verbal and writing skills in English and where applicable be proficient in the relevant language for PhD project (ie Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Greek)
  • be highly motivated and have a personal commitment to the success of the research project as a whole
  • have a proven ability to work in a network and an aptitude to meet challenges
  • demonstrate an excellent understanding of challenges in care for older people
  • demonstrate awareness and ability in an appropriate range of research methods
  • demonstrate an excellent understanding of ethical requirements in research with older people
  • demonstrate experience of working/studying in the field(s) of caring science, older person advocacy, policy development, nursing, allied health, digital product development, public engagement, participatory methods/co-design or lifeworld research
  • be an early stage researcher with less than four years of research since graduation
  • be willing and able to undertake international and/or industrial placements as and when appropriate
  • be willing and able to travel flexibly to attend INNOVATEDIGNITY’s Programme of Training activities placement and events when required.

The researchers may be a national of a member state of an associated country or of any other third country.

Successful applicants will receive:

  • a full-time contract with a competitive salary for 36 months. The remuneration of the recruited ESR is based on a monthly payment made up of living allowances, family allowance and mobility expenses where applicable and according to MSCA Horizon 2020 requirements
  • office space in a professional and stimulating environment
  • family-friendly working conditions.

 

How to apply

Applications should be made via the University of Brighton's e-recruitment system by 11.59 (CET) on 14 March 2019. 

Details of the projects and application requirements are given in the job description download on the e-recruitment vacancies page. 

Further information

General information on INNOVATEDIGNITY-ITN 

Full information on recruitment

General information about the Marie Sklodowska Curie (MSCA) Innovative Training Network program. 

Contact us

For enquiries about the projects or any other queries, email info@innovatedignity.eu ensuring you indicate the lead supervisor and research study you are enquiring about in the subject line. Please do not email the lead supervisor directly.

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