Senior Research Fellow in Ophthalmic Biostatistics

About us:

The mission of the UCL GOS Institute of Child Health 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. T he Institute offers world-class education and training across a wide range of teaching 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:

The Vision and Eyes Group UCL is offering an exciting opportunity to an experienced postdoctoral research statistician to join us in a unique post that combines working on programmes of ophthalmic epidemiological research with a statistical advisory role in clinical ophthalmic research as well as teaching opportunities. Further information about the Vision and Eyes Group UCL. The post is funded by the Ulverscroft Foundation. The successful candidate will be based in the Population, Policy and Practice Department GOS ICH UCL . The post-holder will be expected to work independently and as part of a team, to liaise and work collaboratively, to lead or contribute to publications and to present the results of their work at study meetings, and at national or international scientific meetings, as appropriate. The post is available from 1^st December 2024 but the start date is negotiable. The salary offered in this post is £51,474 - £54,794 per annum and it is funded for 36 months in the first instance. Interviews are due to take place on Tuesday 12^th November 2024.

About you:

Applicants must have a PhD in Statistics or equivalent experience and a good level of relevant postdoctoral research experience including data analysis of large, complex healthcare datasets alongside good programming skills in at least one statistical language, (e.g. Stata or R) and experience of writing papers for peer-reviewed journals. It is essential that candidates have a strong working knowledg e of research methods in statistics and epidemiology and have strong statistical analytic skills.

What we offer:

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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. You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/equality-diversity-inclusion/

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