Professional roles

Project Administrator (two roles): Grade 6

The Project Administrator provides administrative support for the set-up and development of the STOP Project. One role will focus on supporting the project work at the University of Bath, the other will support the coordination of the project across the project partners.

Project Manager (Coordination): Grade 8

The Project Manager will work together with the international project partners to manage and facilitate coordination of this high-profile project.

Marketing & Communications Officer: Grade 7

The Marketing & Communications Officer will enhance and promote the profile of this project to internal and external audiences.

Managing Editor of TobaccoTactics.org: Grade 8

The Managing Editor of TobaccoTactics.org provides editorial oversight of the TobaccoTactics website and be responsible for the day-to-day management of work underpinning its production.

Academic and research roles

Research Director: Grade 9

The Research Director will develop the research, lead the research team and represent the research team to the stakeholders.

Research Assistant TobaccoTactics (two roles): Grade 6

The Research Assistant TobaccoTactics plays a key role in maintaining and editing the TobaccoTactics website.

Research Assistant: Grade 6

The Research Assistant provides research support to a number of academic leads in the research team and to the rapid response team.

Research Associate (three roles): Grade 7

Research Associates play a key role in policy relevant research on the tobacco industry. We are keen to attract those with research and skills in one or more of the following:

• social network analysis
• process tracing
• documentary analysis
• supply chain analysis
• content analysis
• discourse analysis
• policy analysis
• Big Data
• crowd sourcing

Research Associate (Data Science): Grade 7

The Research Associate (Data Science) harnesses digital methods for exploring big data to answer important research questions on tobacco industry activity.

Research Fellow: Grade 8

The Research Fellow leads on the Preventing Policy Influence research topic, critically examines tobacco industry influence on policy (both public health and upstream policies) at global, regional and national levels.

Rapid Engaged Action lead (REACT) Lead: Grade 7

The Rapid Engaged Action lead (REACT) leads the research side of our rapid response service. Depending on your qualifications, this may be a Professional role.

You can apply for these roles through the University's job vacancy listing.

Your application must include a completed application form and some roles will require examples of your work.

Conflict of interest

To avoid a potential conflict of interest, you will be asked to declare:

• any current or previous occupational activity with any tobacco company
• any financial contributions from the industry, whether gainful or not

Seven million people die from tobacco-related causes every year, yet the tobacco industry continues to market and advertise its products including by increasingly targeting low to middle income countries. By exposing the deceptive practices deployed by Big Tobacco companies, STOP will seek to challenge that.

Our multidisciplinary Tobacco Control Research Group is directed by Professor Anna Gilmore.

Research from the group focuses on 3 main areas:

• tobacco policy evaluation
• corporate policy influence
• harm reduction and innovation

We're committed to ensuring work is relevant to policy and practice and has secured impacts from the UK to a global level.

We're part of the UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies (UKCTAS), one of five UK Centres for Public Health Excellence, funded by the UK Clinical Research Collaboration.

TobaccoTactics

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.

Recognition

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.