Research Assistant

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 teachin g 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 post is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious research assistant to gain expertise in using linked longitudinal data to generate evidence to inform policy on maternal and child health, using the ECHILD data resource which links administrative data from health, education and children’s social care for all children in England. The postholder will carry out descriptive analyses of ECHILD in order to demonstrate and communicate the quality of the data (e.g. how missingness over time changes across different component datasets) and the feasibility of addressing specific research/policy questions (e.g. mapping out numbers of children with specific exposures or outcomes over time and geographically). The research assistant will support close working with government partners and policy makers to ensure that research directions are relevant and have a pathway to impact policy and practice. The salary offered in this role is £39,148 per annum and is funded until 30/04/2028 in the first instance.

About you

You will have an MSc or PhD in a relevant discipline (e.g. statistics, epidemiology, public health, health data science). You will have advanced quantitative and statistical software skills using standard software (e.g. Stata, R) and experience of analysing large longitudinal datasets. Experience analysing administrative data from health, education or children’s social care would be an advantage. Experience of working in child health is desirable. You will have excellent written and verbal communication skills.

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