Dear colleagues

Please can you draw the following three opportunities to any interested 
colleagues or postgraduate students who are near completion. We are 
interested in candidates with good qualitative research skills along 
with experience in evaluation (essential for the senior post).

Best wishes
Steven Cummins
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*National Evaluation of the Healthy Towns Programme*

The Healthy Environments Research Programme, Department of Geography,
Queen Mary, University of London in collaboration with The London School
of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of
East Anglia and the University of Newcastle invites applications for
*three* posts to support the National Evaluation of the Healthy Towns
Programme.

This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in a project of national
importance with direct links to policy-makers and stakeholders at all
levels. The Healthy Towns Programme is an area-based initiative in nine
towns across England aimed at combating the ‘obesogenic’ environment
through increasing opportunities to improve diet and increase physical
activity.

All posts are full-time and fixed-term for 3.5 years. Prospective 
candidates for Posts 1 & 2 may apply for both positions.

*Post 1: Senior Research Fellow*
Salary: £37,332 per annum
http://webapps.qmul.ac.uk/hr/vacancies/jobs.php?id=1493

*Post 2: Research Fellow*
Salary: £33,492 per annum
http://webapps.qmul.ac.uk/hr/vacancies/jobs.php?id=1494

*Post 3: Project Support Officer*
Salary: £30,896 per annum
http://webapps.qmul.ac.uk/hr/vacancies/jobs.php?id=1495

The Department of Geography was ranked joint first among UK geography
departments in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, has an
international reputation for theoretically informed and empirically
grounded scientific research.

Further information on the Healthy Environments Research Programme can
be found here: http://webspace.qmul.ac.uk/healthyenvironments/index.html

Informal enquiries can be made to Dr Steven Cummins (email:
[log in to unmask]).

Candidates must be able to demonstrate their eligibility to work in the
UK in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1999.

Application forms and further details are available from the
departmental website at: www.geog.qmul.ac.uk or by mail at Department of
Geography, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1
4NS, United Kingdom.  Alternatively please visit
http://www.hr.qmul.ac.uk/vacancies/ for an application form.

Completed applications (together with a full CV) should be sent to Dr
Marta Timoncini, Departmental Administrator, by email at
[log in to unmask] or at the above address.

Deadline for receipt of applications is *24th November 2009*.  Please
quote the relevant reference number in all applications. Only
short-listed candidates will be contacted.


-- 
Steven Cummins MSc PhD
Senior Lecturer & NIHR Fellow
Department of Geography
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS

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