Job summary
- Main area
- Research
- Grade
- 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 3 years
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 389-24-6388058
- Employer
- Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bradford Royal Infirmary
- Town
- Bradford
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Research Fellow - 3 Years
7
Job overview
Are you excited about working with big data to gain fresh insights into young people’s digital and social media habits, and how this contributes to their mental health and wellbeing? This is your opportunity to join the Bradford Centre for Health Data Science, the leading centre for applied data science and public health research in the north of England.
We are seeking a dynamic quantitative researcher for a long-term role with substantial opportunity to develop a research agenda and career.
Bradford Institute for Health Research hosts:
- Born in Bradford, a birth cohort study including over 12,000 young people and their families;
- BiB: Age of Wonder, which is collecting data about the health and wellbeing of 30,000 adolescents in Bradford over the next 7 years;
- Born in Bradford's Better Start, the world's first interventional cohort study that is evaluating early life interventions such as breastfeeding support;
- Connected Bradford, a research database of linked administrative records from the from the NHS and local authority, covering the whole population of Bradford.
These resources, together with a large multidisciplinary research team and strong connections with the local community, make Bradford Institute for Health Research one of the most exciting places for health data science and epidemiology in the world.
Main duties of the job
The main purpose of this post is to use these resources to do scientific studies that can improve the health of people in Bradford. You will develop and contribute towards a research agenda examining the role digital and social media plays in adolescent mental health. You will also contribute towards the research support service offered by the Bradford Centre for Health Data Science, and support colleagues doing quantitative research.
Working for our organisation
Our People Charter outlines the behaviours we can expect from one another and what you can expect from Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust:
- We value people
- We are one team
- We care
We’re keen to meet people who share these values and are passionate about delivering the highest quality of care to our patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See Job Description for full details:
We are looking for a Senior Research Fellow to lead quantitative research projects investigating the role of digital and social media in adolescent mental health and wellbeing. You will be responsible for designing, leading, and publishing quantitative research in this field. You will collaborate with researchers across the institute and in many partner universities and organisations. Initially, you will work with existing data and pre-defined research questions. You will subsequently be involved in steering the direction of the research theme, and developing novel research methodologies, such as data donation, ecological momentary assessment (EMA), and smart data
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Worked in a multidisciplinary research team in a health-related field
- Conducted statistical analyses for research projects in the area(s) of digital and social media and/or adolescent mental health
- Published research, with a minimum of three publications as first or contributing author in peer reviewed journals
Desirable criteria
- Used data science techniques such as principal component analysis, k-means classification, or natural language processing
- Worked with routinely collected data, such as GP or hospital data, and processed this kind of data so it can be used for research
- Gained approvals from research ethics committees or other relevant research authorities
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
- Managing, processing, and organising complex data, for example longitudinal cohort data or healthcare data collected by GPs
- Doing statistical analysis such as matching, regression, and machine learning
- Using statistical software such as R or Python, including documentation of analysis
- Working on multiple projects in parallel
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Epidemiological methods including cohort studies, cross-sectional studies, case-control studies, quasi-experimental designs, and randomised controlled trials
Desirable criteria
- Causal inference study designs and methods
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- PhD in a relevant area, or a relevant postgraduate qualification and significant relevant research work experience
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- John Pickavance
- Job title
- Principal Data Scientist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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