Research Assistant / 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 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/fellow to gain expertise in using linked longitudinal data to generate evidence to inform cancer services for children and young people. The postholder will use pseudonymised data in ECHILD to document the educational and longer-term health complications of survivors of childhood cancer, complementing existing smaller studies on which treatments allow people to lead better and more fulfilling lives. This role is funded until 31st December 2027 in the first instance. Grade 7 is dependent upon having been awarded a PhD; if this is not the case, initial appointment will be at research assistant Grade 6B (spine points 25 - 28) with payment at Grade 7 being backdated to the date of final submission of the PhD thesis.

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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