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27 October 2008 | Job opportunity at CAHRU
Vacancy for Research Communications Officer
Closing date for applications: 12 November 2008
The Child & Adolescent Health Research Unit (CAHRU) wishes to appoint a Research Communications Officer who will work as part of a team at the International Coordinating Centre (ICC) for the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Study (HBSC).
HBSC is a well-established study that carries out cross-national surveys every four years with the aim of increasing understanding of young people's health behaviours, health and lifestyles in their social context and to inform and influence health promotion and health education policy and practice at national and international levels. The study's work is conducted by an expanding multi-disciplinary network of researchers in 43 countries across Europe and North America. HBSC is a World Health Organisation collaborative study.
The post holder will be responsible for developing and implementing research communication and dissemination strategies on behalf of the International Coordinating Centre, developing external contacts, managing and organising a wide range of information resources, and monitoring and developing the external profile of HBSC. The role will focus primarily on external communications at a European and international level: with study partners, policy makers, NGOs, academic researchers and other relevant agencies and organisations in the field of adolescent health.
This is a new position within the ICC designed to develop capacity within the centre and the study network as a whole, and to respond to the increasing interest in the study at a policy level. It is an exciting and challenging opportunity for a communications professional with previous experience within a research environment to work within a dynamic international field.
22 October 2008 | New paper accepted
The following paper has been accepted by Health Education:
Kirby J & Inchley J (in press) Active travel to school: views of 10-13 year old schoolchildren in Scotland. Health Education.
1 October 2008 | New project at CAHRU
A new collaborative research project funded by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) is now underway. Over the next 12 months, CAHRU will work with colleagues at the Scottish Agricultural College (SAC) (Alistair Lawrence and Fritha Langford), the Department of Education & Society at Moray House School of Education (Jo Williams) and the Psychology Department at the University of Edinburgh (Peter Wright), to assess how a 'duty of care' towards animals might be promoted amongst children and young people. This project stems from important policy changes relating to pet ownership encapsulated in the Animal Welfare Act (2006). In the first instance, the team will review and bring together literature from a range of academic disciplines including child and adolescent health, developmental and social psychology, sociology and human-animal studies (anthrozoology).
For information on the project, please contact Janine Muldoon