Research Associate in Health Economics

About the role

This is a four-year, full-time post-doctoral opportunity in applied health economics.

The successful candidate will work with a senior health economist and interdisciplinary teams across three diverse projects in care for people with serious illness and their families: an NIHR-funded national trial in improving care for delirium, a six-country Horizon Europe trial in management of COPD, and as part of an NIHR Policy Research Unit in palliative and end-of-life care. The opportunity is available from January 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter, with a finish date of December 2028.

This is an outstanding opportunity for a capable and ambitious early career health economist.  You will lead in generating and disseminating high-quality scientific findings that aim to impact policy and practice; gain experience in multiple methodologies; engage with diverse stakeholders across research, government and the public; and join a field with a large and growing need for health economics research.

The post is based at Cicely Saunders Institute, an interdisciplinary department at the forefront of palliative care research and education worldwide. We aim to support all Institute staff not only in their current roles but in their long-term professional development and career ambitions. Informal enquiries are welcome to Dr Peter May (peter.d.may@kcl.ac.uk).

You will work in a hybrid model that currently requires in-person attendance one day per week (Wednesdays) at Cicely Saunders Institute, King's College Hospital.

This is a full time post, and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 31 December 2028.

About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

• PhD qualified in health economics or related subject area *
• Experience conducting economic evaluation of health or social care intervention(s)
• Understanding of evidence synthesis
• Ability to apply multiple quantitative methodologies across projects, and willingness to learn new methods skills where necessary
• Strong research dissemination skills, including oral and written outputs, and data sharing
• Strong skills in at least one statistical software (e.g. Stata®, R), as well as Microsoft Office (e.g. Word, Excel)
• Able to work both independently and collaboratively on multiple tasks to different deadlines
• Able to communicate with different project stakeholders, including policymakers, PPI, clinicians, academics

* Please note that this is a PhD level role but candidates who have submitted their thesis and are awaiting award of their PhDs will be considered. In these circumstances the appointment will be made at Grade 5, spine point 30 with the title of Research Assistant. Upon confirmation of the award of the PhD, the job title will become Research Associate and the salary will increase to Grade 6.

Desirable criteria

• Understanding or experience of generating evidence for policy
• Where no prior experience, understanding of clinical trials
• Where no prior experience, understanding of probabilistic decision-modelling
• Understanding or experience of research in serious illness/palliative/end-of-life care

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