Working within to embed knowledge through this innovative Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP), with academic support from the Department for Health at the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½, to develop advanced digital interventions that optimise human performance for Defence and other uniformed service personnel. 

This KTP combines HPO's cutting-edge software platform with the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½'s expertise in motivation, behaviour change, and digital health intervention design to develop adaptive, evidence-based digital tools that support sustained health, wellbeing and performance outcomes. 

You will play a central role in translating behavioural science into practical, scalable digital solutions by contributing to intervention design, user engagement strategies, data analysis, evaluation, and collaboration with HPO’s software and analytics teams. 

This KTP offers an intellectually stimulating and interdisciplinary opportunity for an Associate interested in applying behavioural science and digital innovation within high-performance operational environments.

Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ KTPs

As a KTP Associate you will be the project lead, managing your own workload to ensure outputs align with project expectations, including leading on meetings. You will also acquire new skills in strategic leadership that can help to super-charge your career.

Additional benefits of being a KTP Associate:

• All KTP Associates spend 10% of their time on Personal Development, making full use of a generous £2,000 annual personal development budget.
• Access to two 1-week residential training sessions at Ashorne Hill, aimed at developing project management skills.
• Opportunity to gain both industry management and academic experience with mentoring from the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ and at HPO.
• Potential to fast-track a career into business, with an opportunity to gain a permanent job following the KTP. 
• Access to a wealth of academic and industrial resources.
• Access to a Travel & Subsistence budget.
• Access to mentoring sessions through Innovate UK Business Connect.

Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ HPO 

is a UK-based software company focused on developing evidence-based, integrated, digital solutions to assist strategic organisations optimise performance of personnel.

Working at the intersection of human performance, behavioural science, and digital innovation, HPO collaborates closely with academic, military, and operational partners to develop scalable technologies with measurable real-world impact.

Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ you

The ideal candidate will have:

• A MSc or PhD in Health Psychology, Behavioural Science, Digital Health, Public Health, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related discipline. 
• Strong understanding of motivation, behaviour change, and digital intervention design and theory.
• Experience or interest in user engagement strategies, adaptive interventions, and digital health technologies.
• Experience analysing behavioural, health, or performance-related data using tools such as R or Python.
• An understanding of evaluation methods for digital or behaviour change interventions.
• Ability to communicate effectively across multidisciplinary teams, including researchers, software developers, analysts, and commercial stakeholders.
• An interest in applying behavioural science within Defence, high-performance, tactical, or operational settings.
• Ability to work across academic and commercial environments, translating behavioural science into practical, scalable digital solutions with real-world impact.

Desirable:

• Experience working with UX/UI principles or user-centred design approaches. 
• Experience with real-world implementation or evaluation of digital health or wellbeing interventions. 
• Understanding of experimentation, feedback loops, or engagement analytics within digital products.

Further information

As a KTP Associate you can enjoy the benefits of being an employee at the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ whilst working full-time at HPO Technologies. 

HPO holiday entitlement and working hours:
This is a full-time position based in London. Working hours are 9:00 to 17:30 Monday to Fridays. You will be entitled to 25 days paid holiday annually, in addition to UK public holidays. 

The role is fixed-term for a period of 36 months.

A BPSS Security Clearance check is required for this position.

For an informal discussion about this role please email partnerships@bath.ac.uk

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equity and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff. 

Be Well at Ä¢¹½´«Ã½

We’re committed to creating a health-supporting working environment where everyone can thrive and be at their best. We offer a range of resources to enable you to do that from your first day here, including:

• Staff support groups and networks
• A network of Staff Wellbeing Champions
• A suite of tools, resources and frameworks that enable you to be at your best and thrive

Find out more about being at your best at Ä¢¹½´«Ã½.

Closing Date: 03 Nov 2026

Department: Education & Research

Salary: £42,000 to £48,000 plus an additional £2,000 annual personal training and development budget

Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ the role

We are looking for a Sport and Exercise Medicine specialist with an established track record of research and delivery of postgraduate clinical education alongside their clinical expertise. 

Our MSc in Sport and Exercise Medicine together with our MSc Sports Physiotherapy and new MSc Football Medicine programmes combine online learning with residential teaching weeks, and these courses are specifically designed to accommodate the professional development needs of practicing doctors and physiotherapists with an interest in sport and exercise.  

These programmes are established within the PG education landscape and are well respected for their academic rigour and strong emphasis on reflective practice. 

Working alongside the Clinical Director of Football Medicine, the successful applicant will have responsibility for the coordination of clinical teaching during residential teaching weeks, along with an oversight of the clinical content of the online academic units on the Sport and Exercise Medicine course. 

The teaching responsibilities will be centred around clinical examination skills and case management, career development and evidence-based practice. 

The role will also include the co-ordination of a team of Professional Development Advisors to support students through developing their clinical experience and expertise within Sport and Exercise Medicine.

The Clinical Director will be involved in ongoing development of the programme and its promotion nationally and internationally. 

Alongside their Clinical Directorship of the Sport and Exercise Medicine course we are also looking for the successful candidate to contribute of our strong research profile in Sport and Exercise Medicine.  

The candidate will join the UK Collaborating Centre on Injury and Illness Prevention in Sport (UKCCIIS) and contribute to our track record for research that has helped to enhance athlete health and prevent injuries in sport.

Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ us

The Department for Health has a strong international reputation for delivering leading multi and inter-disciplinary teaching and research across a broad range of topics in health, exercise and sport. 

We are currently ranked 13th in the International QS rankings for sport-related subjects and 98% of our research in sport and exercise sciences, leisure and tourism was considered world-leading or internationally excellent in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework exercise.  

We host a very successful suite of undergraduate courses (BSc and MSci Sport and Exercise Science, BSc Health and Exercise Science, BSc Sport Management and Coaching and FdSc/BSc Sport Performance) and alongside our clinical MSc courses outlined above we provide campus based MScs in Sport Management and Global Public Health and Policy.  

These courses complement our impactful research which is organised around three themes: Lifelong Health and Wellbeing, Improving Human Function, and a Fair and Vibrant Society.  

Notably for this position we are part of the IOC UK Collaborating Centre on Injury and Illness Prevention in Sport. 

Additional information

If you are interested in the Clinical Director role, but do not have a research portfolio that would meet the research elements of the job description and person specification please get in touch as there is some flexibility in the FTE and requirements of this role.

This is a 0.4 FTE role, and we are interested in applications from licensed and practicing Medical Doctors only.

This role benefits from a market supplement in addition to the advertised salary in recognition of current market conditions. The value of the supplement will be confirmed prior to appointment.

Initial enquiries should be directed to Dr Peter Rouse (Academic Director of Studies; pr222@bath.ac.uk), Professor Keith Stokes (Director of the Centre for Health and Illness and Injury Prevention in Sport spsks@bath.ac.uk) or Professor Polly McGuigan (Head of Department for Health mpm21@bath.ac.uk).

Further details of our Department teaching and research activities can be found at /departments/department-for-health/ 

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equity and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff. 

What we can offer you 

We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ gym
• Staff benefits include discounted postgraduate tuition and language courses, alongside a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities such as apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning, and more
• Local discounts, including free entry to the Holburne Museum in Ä¢¹½´«Ã½
• A family-friendly workplace 
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses
• Employee assistance services through Health Assured, including access to the Wisdom app

Find out more about our benefits and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ a great place to work as well as following us and .

Be Well at Ä¢¹½´«Ã½

We’re committed to creating a health-supporting working environment where everyone can thrive and be at their best. We offer a range of resources to enable you to do that from your first day here, including:

• Staff support groups and networks
• A network of Staff Wellbeing Champions
• A suite of tools, resources and frameworks that enable you to be at your best and thrive

Find out more about being at your best at Ä¢¹½´«Ã½.

 

Closing Date: 31 Oct 2026

Department: Education & Research

Salary: £58,225 to £73,709 A market supplement, in accordance with a clinical pay scale is available for eligible applicants.