Research Fellow

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. on the role of learning-based inequalities in reducing health inequalities from a life course perspective as part of Equalise: ESRC Centre for Lifecourse Health Equity. Equalise is a new £9M research centre funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), for five years in the first instance, currently until 30th September 2029, to provide evidence on solutions to reduce health inequalities.

The work of the centre is structured around four substantive themes: Learning, Work, Care, and Place, as well as a fifth Synthesis theme, drawing findings together across themes. This post-holder will be responsible for research within the Learning theme, primarily using advanced quantitative methods on survey and administrative data, while also contributing to the Synthesis theme, and also working closely with colleagues using qualitative methods and policy and practice partners within the Centre. Centre Fellows will also undertake short collaborative projects across themes and different methodological approaches.

This post is funded for 6 months in the first instance.

About you

You will have a PhD or equivalent experience 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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