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 of 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

This project aims to examine how having a child with a complex chronic condition or disability impacts on labour market participation and earnings of mothers. The post-holder will undertake descriptive and causal analyses of a flagship data resource developed by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the Public Health Data Asset (PHDA), which links pseudonymised records from UK censuses with data on health, employment and earnings. This post will involve a secondment to the ONS to carry out the analyses, providing an opportunity to learn how national statistics and publications are used to inform policy. The post-holder will also carry out literature reviews and lead public engagement activities with parents of children with complex chronic conditions to inform the study design and analysis plans. This post is funded until 31st December 2028 in the first instance.

About you

The post is suitable for a postdoctoral researcher (Grade 7) trained in statistics, epidemiology, economics or equivalent, with experience of causal inference and longitudinal data analysis. Experience with one or more of the administrative databases within the Public Health Data Asset is essential for this post. This post is an opportunity to take a leading role in writing peer reviewed publications that are relevant to national policy.

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