Research Assistant in Stroke Community Research

About Us

The appointee will be a member of the Stroke Research Group within the School of Life Course and Population Sciences, a multidisciplinary team and collaborate with social scientists, statisticians, computer scientists, health economists, policy makers, and stroke survivors and their carers.

Their work will focus on the South London Stroke Register (SLSR), one of the largest and longest running registries of stroke patients internationally, with >8000 participants registered since 1995 and extensive long-term participant follow-up. We aim to improve patient care by allowing effective planning of services, personalised care, and reducing inequalities in access to care and outcomes after stroke.

About the role

We wish to recruit a Research Assistant in Stroke Community Research. The successful candidate will have a MSc with a social science in health component, experience in participant recruitment for research studies or community engagement, and experience of working with people from diverse backgrounds in a professional setting. They will be the primary link between our research team and stroke survivors, leading participant engagement and follow-up activities. They will lead on all aspects of participant follow-up within the SLSR, which involves organizing and conducting participant follow-ups both face-to-face and remotely. They will support the running of related stroke research studies, such as our feasibility study of a patient portal to engage with stroke survivors.

They will lead on the SLSR’s patient and public involvement (PPI) programme, in particular organising and running our regular Stroke Research Patient and Family Group Meetings, where researchers, stroke survivors and carers discuss new research proposals, how ongoing projects can be improved, and the significance of research outcomes; and will contribute to the wider KCL’s Stroke Research Programme’s national PPI group.

They will engage with stroke survivors, their families, and carers, to support and encourage their input and involvement into our research. Previous experience of direct contact with people with chronic impairments might be useful. They will be someone who thrives in a highly collaborative and interdisciplinary environment, but is also able to work independently, solve problems and deliver research to tight deadlines.

This is an outstanding opportunity to be part of a multidisciplinary team, further develop skills and expertise in population health science in a priority area for health research and build a research career by contributing to high quality publications and taking advantage of developmental opportunities with the department and KCL.

This is a full time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 15 September 2026.

About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

• MSc with a social science in health component or MPH
• Experience in participant recruitment and retention for research studies
• Experience in community engagement / Patient and Public Involvement
• Research experience in collecting, analysing, and interpreting qualitative or quantitative data in healthcare
• Evidence of working with people from diverse backgrounds in a professional setting

Desirable criteria

• Experience working with people with disabilities, including physical, mental, and cognitive impairments
• Previous publications or conference presentations
• Experience working with stroke survivors

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