Research Fellow - Population Mental Health

IOE is UCL Faculty of Education and Society.

Founded in 1902, IOE has been shaping policy and helping government, organisations and individuals navigate a changing society for the last 120 years. We embrace collaboration and excellence to create a future that is inclusive and just, and have been ranked number one for education every year since 2014 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.

The Social Research Institute is one of the leading centres for social research in the UK. It is home to seven internationally renowned research units. All of our centres are multidisciplinary, with staff drawn variously from economics, sociology, social policy, demography, psychology, anthropology and social statistics. We promote problem-solving interdisciplinary research on particular themes where we have outstanding scholarship and critical mass, e.g. gender, families, work, inequalities, migration, bio-social interactions.

We are recruiting a Research Fellow to work on an exciting project focused on applying multiple quantitative approaches consistent with intersectionality theories to study social inequalities in youth population mental health.

Throughout the project, existing data from multiple cohort studies in the UK will be brought together. Novel quantitative methods will be used and developed to analyse how intersectional inequalities in youth mental health differ across generations, geographical areas, and over time.

You will take a leading role in the data management and quantitative analysis, write-up of manuscripts and reports, and coordination of outputs management.

The project will be conducted in close collaboration with young people, and you will work closely with the project’s youth lived experience advisory board and contribute to the co-produced outputs.

Please be aware that any offer of employment will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

With A PhD (or equivalent experience) in population mental health, psychiatric epidemiology, quantitative social science, quantitative psychology, or similar area (awarded or near completion), you will also have experience managing and analysing data from at least one existing longitudinal population-based study.

Demonstrable contributions to the field of youth mental health and/or social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology are also essential.

This post is initially available for two years in the first instance.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits.

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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.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

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