Postdoctoral Research Fellow

City St George’s, University of London is the University of business, practice and the professions and brings together the expertise and excellence of City, University of London and St George’s, University of London into one institution. The combined university is now one of the largest higher education destinations for London students, combining a breadth of disciplines across health, business, policy, law, creativity, communications, science and technology. Our students are at the heart of everything that we do, and we are committed to supporting them to pursue their career and personal ambitions.

Our research is engaged, at the frontier of practice and has a positive impact on the world around us.

We are creating a ‘health powerhouse’ for students, researchers, the NHS and partners in uniting a world-leading specialist health university, in which staff and students have access to an expanded team of brilliant academic and professional services colleagues, combined resources and facilities and increased interdisciplinary opportunities. We are now one of the UK’s largest health educators and one of the largest suppliers of the health workforce in the capital.

Background

A post-doctoral research fellow is sought to lead on the day-to-day operations of the following project: “Transforming eye care services: Evaluating the feasibility and utility of performing glaucoma assessments directly within care-homes and geriatric clinics”. Full details of the project can be found here. This project is being led by Dr Pete Jones, details of whom can be found here.

Responsibilities

The successful candidate would be expected to take ownership and lead the day-the-day operations of this 3-year research project. It is anticipated that they would be involved in initial project planning and ethics, right through to data collection, writing up, and dissemination (i.e., as 1^st author).

Person Specification

This would be an exciting opportunity for an early-stage researcher (with a PhD in vision science, optometry, experimental psychology, or a related field with a strong technical or clinical component), or a research-optometrist/ophthalmologist looking to develop their research career.

Additional Information

Closing date for application: 20 April 2025 at 11:59pm.

The selection process will involve an interview and candidates will be asked to perform a short (10 minute) PowerPoint presentation regarding their previous research to date, and to complete some simple written exercises concerning statistics and programming.

City St George’s offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

City St George’s, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors.

We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

City St George’s operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.

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