We're recruiting new roles to support our work researching and exposing the tactics of the tobacco industry.
STOP is a global tobacco industry watchdog, based partly at the University of Bath alongside our partners:
STOP brings together global leaders in tobacco industry monitoring and research, advocacy, accountability and communication. This unique combination helps ensure that our research is widely and effectively communicated and has maximum impact.
This watchdog, funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, builds on the successful research of the University of Bath's Tobacco Control Research Group including its TobaccoTactics website.
You will join our Tobacco Control Research Group. We're globally recognised for our research on the tobacco industry. We're a dynamic, multidisciplinary research group, based in the Department for Health. You will also benefit from close collaboration with the School of Management and the Department of Social & Policy Sciences within the University as well as with our dynamic project partners.
We have no vacancies currently.
When applying for a role with the Tobacco Control Research Group, to avoid a potential conflict of interest, you will be asked to declare:
TCRG is a partner in STOP, a global tobacco industry watchdog. STOP’s primary work is to understand and expose tobacco industry behaviour, and to arm and support stakeholders with evidence and tools to counter the industry.
At least 8 million people die every year from using tobacco products. Millions more live every day with the health and economic consequences of tobacco use. The main barrier to reducing this preventable death and suffering is a deep-pocketed industry driven by profit.
STOP is dedicated to rigorously exposing the tobacco industry’s efforts to derail tobacco control and hook a new generation of users. It works around the world, with a special focus on low-and middle-income countries where the industry is aggressively targeting communities and where the biggest populations are at risk for tobacco-related disease burden.
Professor Anna Gilmore explains why you should apply to join our research team the University of Bath.
If successful, you will join the University of Bath's leading Tobacco Control Research Group.
Our multidisciplinary Tobacco Control Research Group is directed by Professor Anna Gilmore.
We're committed to ensuring work is relevant to policy and practice and has secured impacts from the UK to a global level.
Our groundbreaking database TobaccoTactics, is a unique academic resource that monitors the tobacco industry and its allies. This unparalleled resource now contains 777 profiles of individuals and organisations with tobacco industry links.
Our work is globally recognised. Senior and early career staff have received awards for their research and its impacts on policy including from World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Public Health Advocacy Institute.
The Tobacco Control Research Group is based in our Department for Health. The Department is well regarded for research excellence and inclusivity.
If you have any questions, then contact our Tobacco Control Research Group.
