School of Health and Life Sciences

Associate Dean (Research & Innovation)

The Associate Dean (Research and Innovation) is key to the successful delivery of the school’s contribution to the ambitions and priorities identified in the University strategy and thematic plans for research and innovation.

Reporting to the Dean, and working in a matrix model through the direction and guidance of the Pro Vice-Chancellor Research and Innovation, the Associate Dean (Research and Innovation) will provide strong, dynamic, and inspirational school-level leadership for Future Research Assessment Programmes (FRAP), creating and sustaining a high-quality, supportive, and inclusive environment which empowers and supports the development of researchers; delivery of internationally excellent research, including postgraduate research students and encouraging staff to undertake knowledge exchange, consultancy, Continuous Professional Development (CPD), and other enterprise activities, fostering and influencing cross university collaboration in all such activities.

The Associate Dean (Research and Innovation) will ensure that the wider body of research, and innovation activity within the school underpins learning and teaching and contributes to the realisation of the university’s research and innovation ambitions and delivers positive impacts for the communities served by the university.

Full details are held within the Job Description and Person Specification found below.