Research Fellow / Senior Research Fellow

About us

Our mission 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. The Institute offers world-class education and training across a wide range o f 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. Please only attach relevant documents to your application (qualifications, cover letters, supporting statements) and avoid attaching large files e.g. research papers, thesis, publications etc.

About the role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an individual with expertise in analysing large, complex databases to support the establishment of the Kids’ Environment and Health Cohort (KEHC): https://kenvh-cohort.org.uk/ KEHC is a new national birth cohort for England, consisting of linked vital statistics, health, education, Census and environmental dataset. KEHC will be made available to researchers via the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Secure Research Service. The purpose of setting up the cohort is to allow research into how the physical and social environments in and around children’s homes and schools affect their health and education outcomes. The post holder will support the development of the Kids’ Environment and Health Cohort by cleaning and validating the cohort datasets, develop user guides, training and documentation, support adherence to ethical, information governance and data protection standards. They will closely with the Office for Nationa l Statistics to deliver the cohort data resource. They will also carry out statistical analyses of the KEHC cohort, focusing on the impact of environmental factors, such as air pollution, green space and housing environments on birth outcomes and infant mortality. The salary offered in this post is at either grade 7 (£45,103 - £52,586 per annum) or at grade 8 (£54,931 - £62,903 per annum) and is funded until 31/10/2027 in the first instance.

About you

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with proven successful experience in analysing complex longitudinal datasets, such as Hospital Episode Statistics or the National Pupil Database and research experience in environmental epidemiology or health geography to develop a globally unique data resource for environmental child health research. We are looking for an enthusiastic individual with a doctorate in epidemiology, statistics, demography, geography or other relevant quantitative science, with experience of analysing large, complex longitudinal data for environmental health research.

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