Department: Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery
Reporting to: Executive Vice Dean for Research
Contract/Duration: 6 months – Full time
Remuneration: IUA Salary Scale Postdoctoral Researcher Scale (PD1), depending on experience
Closing Date: 23:45pm on Sunday 21st of June 2026
About Our Research
RCSI recognises that excellence in research is critical to the quality of its educational activities, its credibility, and, overall, to its mission to enhance human health. RCSI’s research strategy aims to build upon its strength in translational biomedical and clinical research to deliver transformational, high impact changes in health care. Targeting both Irish national and EU funding, along with increased collaboration with industry, is a major part of the RCSI research strategy. Forging increased collaboration between RCSI PIs and industry is of critical importance to achieving success in this area. RCSI is also committed to provide its researchers with the supports and developmental opportunities to enable them to continuously grow and support their overall career development.
About the Faculty
The Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery is a dynamic, interdisciplinary, research-oriented environment, with over 20 staff members, including administrative, faculty and research staff. It currently has over 10 active research grants, including the NIHR funded WEATHER project in collaboration with four international universities, the UKRI Net Zero hub project, along with coordination and hosting of 19 PhD and Professional doctorate projects.
Summary of Post
The objective of this post is to contribute research expertise, especially in the area of staff retention, in conducting discrete choice experiments, and to lead in the writing of rapid and scoping reviews on this theme. The successful candidate will require a strong background in social science, discreet choice experiments and knowledge of writing scoping reviews, searching published and grey literature, and using established guidelines including PICO/SPIDER frameworks, PRISMA reporting guidelines and JBI checklists for critical appraisals.
Specifically, the duties of the post are:
Detailed subject knowledge of health economics, particularly in relation to conducting an economic evaluation
Experience of using Stata or similar data processing packages.
Prior experience of qualitative research
Experience of using NVivo or similar qualitative data analysis packages
Design surveys for research analysis on workforce retention in health care.
Conduct individual and/or collaborative research to the highest ethical standards on a variety of settings.
Research and write literature reviews (rapid review or scoping review methods), produce analysis of literature and evidence summaries.
Carry out any administrative and management work associated with your programme of research.
Actively contribute to the identification of external funding sources, the preparation of grant proposals and the assessment of research findings for potential commercial exploitation.
Co‑authorship of academic publications, conference presentations, reports, dissemination to the public and compliance with open access requirements.
Complying with statutory legislation, RCSI and department rules and requirements in staff welfare and safety.
Representing the best interests of the Faculty and wider RCSI at all times.
Engage in appropriate professional training and development opportunities.
Performing such other duties as may be requested from time to time.
Qualifications – (Essential)
MSc in Health Economics or Medical Statistics and a PhD or significant equivalent/demonstrable experience in a relevant discipline (e.g., epidemiology, economics, public health, health services) with 3 year’s experience in health economics.
Knowledge & Experience (Essential)
Demonstrate previous experience of carrying out stated preference techniques including discrete choice experiment research.
Evidence of experience in health economics
Understand the complexities with workforce retention.
Have an internationally competitive research record, as evidenced by peer‑reviewed publications in journals of high impact and quality
Demonstrate an understanding of the operational and management requirements of a successful research project
Have excellent time management and can work to deadlines
Have a high level of proficiency in English. Both written and spoken is essential for this role.
We are all too aware that imposter syndrome and the confidence gap can sometimes stop fantastic candidates putting themselves forward, so please do submit an application — we’d love to hear from you.
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