Senior Research Fellow in Epidemiology

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 role will involve quantitative analysis of the ECHILD database of linked national administrative health, education and children’s social care data hosted within the ONS Secure Research Service. The postholder will conduct research to evaluate the education and longer-term health outcomes of childhood cancer survivors. This post is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious research fellow to gain expertise in using linked longitudinal data to generate evidence to inform policy. The postholder will use pseudonymised data in ECHILD to document the educational and longer-term health complications of survivors of childhood cancer, complementing existing smaller studies on which treatments allow people to lead better and more fulfilling lives. The salary offered in this post is either at grade 7 £43,124 - £51,610 per annum or at grade 8 £52,487 - £56,796 per annum, depending on experience.

About you

You will have a PhD in a relevant discipline (e.g. statistics, epidemiology, public health, data science). You will have advanced quantitative and statistical software skills using standard software (e.g. Stata, R) and experience of analysing large longitudinal datasets. Experience analysing administrative data from health, education or children’s social care would be an advantage. Experience of working in child health is desirable. You will have excellent written and verbal communication skills.

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