Senior Research Methodology Advisor (Statistics/Epidemiology)

Hours: up to 1.0 FTE

Requests for flexible working, including working from home options will be considered
(subject to business need, expected 2 to 3 days/week in person).

Location: Falmer and Brighton, United Kingdom

Contract: Professional Services, temporary for 3 years in first instance

Applications must be received by midnight of the closing date.

Expected Interview date:  To be discussed with HR 

Expected start date: ASAP – July 2024

The Brighton and Sussex Health Partnership (HRP) was established by Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) in 2022. It brings together academic and NHS partners across Sussex to develop shared research infrastructure, capacity and collaborations, and align priorities and strategies across the partners to build a shared, unique profile for health and care research in Sussex.

This new post is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the HRP’s development of early career health and care researchers. We are seeking to appoint somebody with a personal track-record of success in health and care research with diverse experience of research advising who can provide practical methodological support to early career researchers, to enhance the quality of research proposals, increase funding success rates and build research skills.

The post holder will play a key role as strategic partner in supporting the HRP Leadership team in shaping the methodological support needed for research capacity grow and development in the region, as the partnership develops.

The ideal candidate will have knowledge of/ expertise in areas of clinical research & trials, such as study design, qualitative methods, statistical methods, and data analysis. They will be able to confidently support, challenge, advise and provide support on the design of studies. 

The successful candidate will work closely with the Brighton and Sussex Clinical Trials Unit, the Joint Clinical Research Office, expert statisticians based at the Medical School and with clinical colleagues mainly based at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust and other local NHS Trusts.

Please contact Virginia Govoni, Head of Health Research Partnership at v.govoni@bsms.ac.uk for informal enquiries.

The University is committed to equality and valuing diversity, and applications are particularly welcomed from women and black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic posts in Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Mathematics (STEMM) at Sussex.

For full details and how to apply please click the 'Apply' button, above.

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