Research Team Leads

Location: Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford 

We are seeking two experienced researchers to play a lead role in the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science, supporting the development and use of our platforms like OpenSAFELY and OpenPrescribing, and the fast-growing research team. This is an opportunity for someone who enjoys leadership, supervising research and running small teams. 

You will also be helping to lead a new way of delivering health data science mainly using the OpenSAFELY platform. OpenSAFELY is a highly secure, modular, open-source data analysis platform, combining best practice from both academia and the open-source software community. 

The Bennett Institute is a mixed team of clinicians, software developers, policy experts, and traditional academic researchers, all pooling skills and knowledge. We have a strong track record of delivering high impact research in Nature, Lancet and BMJ; real-world impact on policy and clinical practice; and high impact services such as OpenSAFELY, OpenPrescribing and TrialsTracker.

Our mission is to create a modern, open, collaborative ecosystem for health research. We do this by shipping code, delivering papers, building capacity, and advocating for new ways of working. We aim to lead by example: recurring tasks are turned into packages and libraries; all code is shared openly for review and re-use; analyses are delivered in Jupyter notebooks for others to read, evaluate, re-purpose, and learn with.

We want to meet outstanding researchers who share this vision and have, or can rapidly develop, the skills needed to deliver it with us. We are particularly interested in researchers who will contribute to our open science community-building work, our codebase, our open teaching resources, or our policy work.

You will be based in the Radcliffe Primary Care Building within the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG but you will be able to agree a pattern of regular remote working with your line manager.

These positions are full-time and fixed-term until 31 October 2026 in the first instance.

You will report to Brian MacKenna, Director of Research and NHS Analytics Operations. For further information you can read www.bennett.ox.ac.uk or to discuss the post please contact Brian MacKenna brian.mackenna@phc.ox.ac.uk.

“Committed to equality and valuing diversity”

You will be required to upload a CV and Supporting Statement as part of your online application. The Supporting Statement should include a cover letter and should also clearly describe how you meet each of the selection criteria listed in the job description. Click here for information and advice on writing an effective Supporting Statement.

The closing date for applications is 12:00 noon on Monday 18 November 2024.

Interviews are expected to be held during the week commencing 2 December 2024.

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