Research Fellow / Senior Research Fellow Full-time

Research Fellow / Senior Research Fellow

This post offers an excellent career development opportunity for a researcher with significant experience in quantitative analysis, epidemiology, and health data science, and an interest in conducting research to inform practice for children and young people with or at risk of blinding disorders. The post is based within the Population Policy and Practice Programme (PPP) at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (UCLGOSICH) and is funded until January 2030. The post-holder will be joining the CHOIR (Childhood Ocular Inflammation Research) team. The CHOIR team conduct Wellcome Trust funded projects which share the primary aim of leveraging routinely collected clinical data, administrative datasets, patient generated data and imaging to improve our understanding of childhood onset blinding disorders and associated multi-system disease. The research fellow will lead on electronic health record (EHR) data extraction and transformation, and develop linked clinical, education and administrative datasets. They will also support the development of a national disease registry, and the development of common data models for childhood onset blinding eye disorders. This role will include general research support duties, such as research governance, communications, data management, and scientific dissemination. They will be expected to work independently and as part of a team, in a timely manner. Training will be provided to support personal development. The post will require the post-holder to be on site for a minimum of two days a week.