This 2-year Research Fellow position is to support a mid-career researcher to develop their addiction research credentials, working directly with Professor Strang and colleagues on human experimental studies of opioid addiction and/or associated complications, in order to become an increasingly influential research academic contributing to study of opioids (or other drugs) and to evolution of addictions science and public policy in this area.
It is anticipated that the applicant will, during the course of their time as a Research Fellow, develop to a level where they are capable of securing, in collaboration with senior colleagues, new grant income with their appointment acting as a platform from which they can develop further in the addictions field.
The new Research Fellow will be expected to have undertaken post-doctoral study and research within the Addictions field already (or in an area with direct relevance), as evidenced by published research output. The appointee will work directly with Professor Sir John Strang and his colleagues, exploring treatment-related and experimental research studies which will include (i) study of heroin overdose and its prevention and reversal, including experimental study with drug administration in clinical and non-clinical volunteer participants, (ii) experimental studies of protective benefit conferred by initiation onto treatments, (iii) study of out-of-treatment as well as treatment populations with addiction/substance use problems.
