Senior Research Fellow

Department

The Centre for Health Economics at the University of York has a leading international reputation and is one of the world’s largest health economics research centres. The Centre is committed to the development and application of economics to promote health and wellbeing through the effective, efficient and equitable use of scarce resources.

CHE is committed to promoting an inclusive community, one in which diversity is recognised, valued, and celebrated. CHE is committed to helping to develop researchers’ careers, which is reflected in this post having an open contract. Career development is supported by the breadth of research undertaken in CHE, the opportunity to work with research leaders in health economics and opportunities for formal training.

The University seeks to attract the very best staff from all over the world and offers a visa application fee & IHS reimbursement policy.

Role

The research fellow will contribute to a range of projects in the field of economic evaluation applied to health and social care. Projects will include policy analyses to inform decisions in the UK and internationally; including those under the NICE technology assessment programme, as well as methods development projects.  

Role holders will be required to undertake some or all the duties below:

• To contribute to the development of the research of the University by managing significant areas of research activity within a specified field
• To contribute to the overall management of the area of research in areas such as budget management and business planning, time management and contribute to departmental level strategic planning as appropriate
• To contribute actively to knowledge creation and dissemination that fits with the overall Department and University strategy
• To provide technical leadership - including new methods development - on aspects of projects relating to decision modelling, uncertainty analysis and value of information methods
• To contribute to the identification and leadership of opportunities involving new areas of research
• To supervise and develop less experienced researchers
• To actively seek and attract funding for research and to hold grants, acting as principal investigator on research projects
• To generate and provide evidence of research impact

Skills, Experience, Knowledge & Qualifications needed

• PhD or equivalent research experience in health economics or another quantitative area, with a focus on economic evaluation.
• Well-established national and international reputation in area of research
• Expert knowledge in economic evaluation in health shown evidenced high quality research.
• Evidence of strong quantitative skills.
• Knowledge of a range of research techniques and methods for the evaluation of interventions.
• Highly developed skills in decision analysis, uncertainty analysis and value of information analysis
• Skills in use of spreadsheets (e.g., advanced Excel) and/or statistical software packages (e.g., Stata or R).
• Evidence of influencing policy and/or contribution to national or international bodies
• Proven experience of attracting and obtaining significant external research funding
• Supervision of less experienced researchers.

Interview date: To be confirmed

For informal enquiries: please contact Mark Sculpher (mark.sculpher@york.ac.uk) or Laura Bojke (laura.bojke@york.ac.uk).  

The University strives to be diverse and inclusive – a place where we can ALL be ourselves.

We particularly encourage applications from people who identify as  Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic background, who are underrepresented at the University. 

We also encourage applications from women for senior roles. 

We offer family friendly, flexible working arrangements, with forums and inclusive facilities to support our staff. #EqualityatYork

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