Research Fellow - Population Mental Health

Founded in 1902, UCL Institute of Education 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 improving our understanding of what may be causing the differences in anxiety and depressive symptomatology across girls and young women and boys and young men.

This is a multidisciplinary project spanning potential biopsychosocial determinants of those differences across the Japanese and UK contexts with a big emphasis on youth leadership and coproduction. You will lead a programme of work focused on the UK case.

You will a) map indicators of sexism in existing data from longitudinal population-based studies (e.g., Millennium Cohort Study, Understanding Society); b) construct novel and robust indices of sexism; and c) contribute to testing the impact of those sexism indicators and indices on gender inequalities in youth mental health using causal inference methods.

The project will be conducted in collaboration with young people, and the postholder will work closely with the project’s youth leadership and coproduction teams and contribute to the co-produced outputs. The postholder will be encouraged to collaborate across other projects within the team to maximise the synergies between these and with other activities within the wider research team.

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.

This post is initially available for 2 years, with the possibility to be extended further depending on funding.

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

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.

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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