Senior Research Fellow in Epidemiology and Statistics

About us

Our mission is to maximise and advocate for the holistic health of all children, young people and the adults they will become, through world-class research, education and public engagement. The UCL GOS ICH, together with its clinical partner Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, forms the largest concentration of children’s health research outside North America. The 2024-29 GOS ICH strategy focuses on its five scientific programmes. GOS ICH’s activities include active engagement with children and families, to ensure that our work is relevant and appropriate to their needs. GOS ICH generates the funding for our research by setting out our proposals in high quality applications to public, charitable and industrial funding bodies and disseminates the results of our research by publication in the medical and scientific literature, to clinicians, policy makers and the wider public. The Institute offers world-class education and training across a wide range of teachin g and life learning programmes which address the needs of students and professional groups who are interested in and undertaking work relevant to child health. GOS ICH holds an Athena SWAN Charter Gold Award.

About the role

This post contributes to the children and young people’s mental health ‘challenge’ within a UKRI funded ‘population health cluster’, which aims to develop mental health intelligence systems to support school leaders, local decision makers and central government in planning / evaluating equitable mental health preventative interventions in children and young people. The wider population health cluster for mental health brings together stakeholders with diverse expertise and from different backgrounds to generate research for new, innovative and interdisciplinary solutions that take a public health approach to understanding and preventing inequalities in experiencing poor mental health. The post-holder will undertake quantitative analysis using the ECHILD database, South London CRIS data and survey data to estimate mental health needs which are both known and unknown to health services. The aim of this project is to examine whether preventative and early intervention programmes in England are fairly distributed according to local area and school-level mental health need. The postholder will be able to develop and consolidate their experience of using administrative data from education and social care and/or healthcare, including mental health data. The salary offered in this post is at either grade 7, £43,124 - £51,610 per annum or grade 8, £52,487 - £61,534 per annum and is funded for 3 years in the first instance.

About you

The post is suitable for a postdoctoral researcher trained in statistics, epidemiology, or a related discipline. Experience with one or more of the administrative databases within ECHILD and/or knowledge of mental health service provision to children and young people would be a significant advantage at Grade 7, and a requirement for Grade 8. This post is an opportunity to gain experience of national, research for policy using a large administrative database. The post is a good opportunity to take a leading role in writing peer reviewed publications that are relevant to national policy and practice.

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