Senior Research Officer - Psychiatric Epidemiologist

Location: Singleton Campus, Swansea

About The Role

This is a Fixed Term post until March 2029 working full-time.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the National Centre for Mental Health at Swansea University. The postholder will manage and conduct a programme of quantitative research projects and data platform development related to Serious Mental Illness, working closely with the world-leading DATAMIND and Brain and Genomics Hub, both part of UKRI Mental Health Platform Hub. There will be close working relationships with colleagues at Cardiff University.

We are particularly interested in receiving applications from candidates who have a desire to develop as a global mental health researcher and leader. 

The successful applicant will benefit from

• Support in skills and career development from a thriving team with over £89M in joint funding over the last five years.
• Be based in National Centre for Mental Health (NCMH) at Swansea University
• Opportunity to work closely with DATAMIND, the Brain and Genomics UKRI Mental Health Platform Hub and National Centre for Suicide Prevention and Self-Harm Research at Swansea University
• Application of research, analytical, epidemiological and programming skills to answer key research questions and build data platforms for analysis that drives evidence-based change in mental health, self-harm and suicide prevention
• Development of leadership skills with opportunities for line management and expectation to act as senior lead on a portfolio of projects within the team 

The appointed researcher will join the team led by Prof. Ann John with a focus on mental health and suicide and self-harm prevention. Prof. Ann John is the Swansea Principal Investigator of the National Centre for Mental Health, Swansea and of of DATAMIND. She is also director of the National Centre for Suicide Prevention and Self-harm Research, and co-leads the Data and Digital theme of the Mental Health Mission. The team has a focus on translation of research into policy and practice. 

You will join Prof. John’s team and work with data resources such as the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) Databank at Swansea University. SAIL is a research Centre of Excellence that brings together a breadth of multi-disciplinary partners through catalytic collaboration. It is a safe haven for billions of person-based records, spanning up to 20 years from the entire population of Wales, which enables researchers to answer important questions for the benefit of society. You will also work with the deeply phenotyped NCMH cohort with access to  multi-modal data (omics, imaging, medications etc). 

The post-holder will have a strong background in clinical epidemiology and/or health data science and have enthusiasm and aptitude for working with mental health related data with a relevant post-graduate degree or equivalent experience. Preferably, you will be experienced in the use of large relational databases through SQL, be fluent in a programming language such as R, Stata or Python, and have knowledge of routine big data such as GP records and hospital admissions.

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