Snr. RF in Population Health / Health Services Research

About us

NIHR ARC North Thames is a partnership with over 40 organisations from across North Central London, North East London, and Mid & South Essex. Working together, we identify the key health and care problems facing organisations in our partnership, design innovative research in response, and rapidly put findings into practice across our region and beyond.

Islington council is an ARC NT Partner organisation and the Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC), working to develop new and existing research evidence to inform decision making for the council. Learn more about Evidence Islington

About the role

We are seeking a highly motivated researcher to join the collaborative team, working with both our Research Partnership Team and our partners at Islington HDRC.

The aim of the post is to conduct substantial population health and / or health services research, including activities addressing public health, health and care services, wider determinants of health and / or health inequalities.

The post-holder will be involved in all stages of research from design through to dissemination and implementation, including leading and supporting grant applications to prestigious funders.

This is a fixed term role until 31 March 2026, in the first instance.

About you

The postholder will have a relevant PhD (or equivalent experience) and expertise in evaluation of population health and/or health services contexts using quantitative or mixed (quantitative and qualitative) research methods.

The post-holder will engage with a range of academic and non-academic stakeholders to strengthen and expand our partnership, and to identify and progress new funding and research opportunities. They will also contribute to our ARC Academy programme and to teaching at UCL where appropriate.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, staff at UCL have access to some great benefits. Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people.

Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care holds an Athena SWAN Bronze award, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality.

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