Working with us
The School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences is a place where we inspire people to learn and achieve, enabling them to make the most of their careers.
Those who come to work for us will find a diverse community that provides world-class teaching, learning and research. All staff help us to achieve our goals.
There are many more benefits available when working at our School. These include:
- A working environment that is underpinned by our Athena SWAN Silver Award, which supports women in STEM and provides a positive working environment for all staff
- Extensive training and development opportunities
- Opportunities for staff to apply for monies to support their activities including travel to meetings
- A modern and fit-for-purpose workplace, with campus and School facilities which are constantly updated
- The opportunity to work flexibly, within reasonable bounds
- Excellent School facilities, including a dedicated room for staff to use for personal health reasons
- The excellent employee benefits provided by our University.
Research and Innovation opportunities
Our ambition is for all research and innovation active staff to develop rewarding, successful and impactful portfolios of work. We provide an enabling environment to support research and innovation in the following ways:
- Individual advice, guidance and feedback on funding sources, grant writing and applications from our Research Development Managers and Partnership Development Managers
- Monthly Research and Innovation drop-in clinics in the School
- Highly successful Sponsorship Mentoring scheme available to staff at all career stages
- Action-orientated research and innovation skills workshops, covering cross-cutting research themes and sharing insights from previous successes and experiences
- University staff development programmes covering all aspects of Research and Innovation over the project lifetime
- Facilitated sessions for staff in the School and across campus to collaborate in response to specific funding calls
- Support for travel to attend funder events e.g. UKRI networking meetings, regional engagement events led by funders
- Funder visits and events on campus (e.g. Royal Society, Academic of Medical Sciences)
- Opportunities to be involved with networks and research centres such as Midlands Innovation, the National Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine, the UNESCO Chair in Sport, Physical Activity and Education for Development, the Centre for Lifestyle Medicine and Behaviour, the National Rehabilitation Centre and many others
- Access to funding advice and support from the NIHR Research Development Service, East Midlands
- Mentoring and support for fellowship applications, including the Academy of Medical Sciences, UKRI Future Leader Fellowships, Royal Society Fellowships
- Central support for intellectual property and commercialisation activities such as Knowledge Transfer Partnerships and spinout companies.
