Senior Research Fellow in Ophthalmic Epidemiology/Data Science

UCL; London; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 53,000

Job description

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.

About the role

The Vision and Eyes Group UCL is offering an exciting opportunity to an experienced postdoctoral epidemiologist / data scientist to join us to undertake a novel and ambitious multidisciplinary project aiming to improve the health, educational and social outcomes of childhood vision impairment. The project comprises investigation of the long-term outcomes using two internationally unique datasets: national cohorts of children and young people newly diagnosed with vision impairment or blindness in the UK, British Childhood Vision Impairment Study (BCVIS) and British Childhood Vision Impairment Study 2 (BCVIS2), ascertained through primary clinical data collection and bespoke individual record linkage to the National Pupil Dataset (NPD) and Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data.

This is an opportunity for an experienced epidemiologist or data scientist to undertake high impact novel research, run a multi-disciplinary research project and develop specialist expertise and experience within an internationally leading Vision and Eyes research group.

The post is funded by a research grant from the Medical Research Foundation.

The successful candidate will be based within the Vision and Eyes Group UCL in the Population, Policy and Practice Research and Teaching Department GOS ICH UCL. The post-holder will be expected to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team, to liaise and work collaboratively, to lead or contribute to publications and to present the results of their work at study meetings, and at national or international scientific meetings, as appropriate.

The salary offered in this post is £52,487 per annum and is funded for 36 months in the first instance. The post is available from 2nd June 2025.

About you

Applicants must have a PhD in Epidemiology or Data Science, and a good level of relevant postdoctoral research in applied health research, good experience of data analysis of large, complex healthcare datasets alongside experience of writing papers for peer-reviewed journals. It is essential that candidates have a strong working knowledge of research methods in epidemiology and/or data science and have strong statistical analytic skills.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

1. 41 Days holiday (including 27 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays, and 6 closure days)
2. Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
3. Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
4. On-Site nursery
5. On-site gym
6. Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
7. Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
8. Discounted medical insurance

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.

You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here: UCL Equality, Diversity and Inclusion