Professor in Health Informatics

The University of Manchester, celebrating its 200th anniversary in 2024, seeks to appoint a Chair in Digital Health to develop their research programme in Manchester, building on our existing research strengths. This post is part of the Division of Informatics, Imaging and Data Science, a thriving academic department with world class research and teaching. Our research strengths include applied machine learning, prediction modelling, medical image analysis, computational biology for health, digital mental health, statistics, epidemiology, and multi-modal data including smartphone and wearable data. We provide postgraduate education in Health Informatics, health data science and medical imaging and offer a range of courses for the continuing development of health care professionals. The Division has a strong ethos of translation of research into practice both through direct implementation into the Greater Manchester health system and the creation of spinout companies. We have excellent links with the GM Health and Care system via the Integrated Care Board, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Health Innovation Manchester, and NHS Trusts. We play an active role in the Greater Manchester Secure Data Environment, enabling research ready data from electronic health records on 3 million citizens in Greater Manchester. The University has significant NIHR Infrastructure including the Manchester Biomedical Research Centre and the Greater Manchester Applied Research Collaboration, both of which have dedicate themes for Digital Health. The Division comprises of leading academics in research and teaching and specialist in software engineering, research platforms, information governance and medical devices.

The successful candidate will be ambitious individual with the potential to be an international leader in their field, undertaking research of the highest quality, and with a passion for developing the next generation of researchers. You will have an established research profile in either Health Informatics, health data science or AI for healthcare. You will be skilled educator able to pass on your knowledge to a diverse cohort of students. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues across the university and the GM health system, and to take advantage of a unique research infrastructure. You will join an academic health system with an established route to translate research into practice and the ethos to innovate in digital health to make a real difference to population.

What you will get in return:

• Fantastic market leading Pension scheme
• Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme
• Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays
• Additional paid closure over the Christmas period
• Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status.  All appointments are made on merit.

Our University is positive about flexible working – you can find out more here

Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.         

Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.

Any recruitment enquiries from recruitment agencies should be directed to People.Recruitment@manchester.ac.uk.

Any CV’s submitted by a recruitment agency will be considered a gift.

Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Name: Georgina Moulton Georgina.Moulton@manchester.ac.uk

Email: Georgina.Moulton@manchester.ac.uk 

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This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.

Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.