Research Associate

4 days ago

Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom University of Bristol Full time

The role

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and talented researcher with expertise in health data, data science, medical statistics, and/or machine learning to join the Electronic Health Records research team at the University of Bristol. The team is led by Professor Jonathan Sterne, Dr Rachel Denholm and Dr Venexia Walker. The post-holder will be based within the University of Bristol's Department of Population Health Sciences, which is a leading UK centre for data science research. They will work closely with leading researchers in data science and health informatics.

The global research response to the COVID-19 pandemic led to the unprecedented use of extremely large datasets based on linked electronic health records (EHRs) available within secure, privacy-protecting Trusted Research Environments. These include OpenSAFELY (OpenSAFELY: Home) and the new NHS England Secure Data Environment Service for England (NHS England Secure Data Environment (SDE) - NHS Digital), each of which includes linked data on more than 50 million people. In addition, the NHS is embarking on an ambitious initiative to build several sub-national secure data environments which will host detailed secondary care, imaging and genomic data, linked with primary and other secondary care medical records. This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the largest groups in the country with expertise in the use of these resources for applied research, in particular advanced medical statistical methods and target trial design and analysis.

The post-holder will be based within the University of Bristol's Department of Population Health Sciences, which is a leading UK centre for data science research. Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to make informal enquiries to Dr Rachel Denholm ) or Venexia Walker ).

What will you be doing?

We wish to appoint a new member of our team to work across trusted research environments. They will work on projects across the following major work programmes:

  • CONVALESCENCE long COVID Study
  • Health Data Research UK Driver Programme "Medicines in Acute and Chronic Care"
  • Health Data Research UK South West
  • NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre Translational Data Science theme

The person appointed will be responsible for conducting and disseminating high-quality, high-priority, applied research in collaboration with team members in Bristol and across the UK. The successful candidate will have talent, expertise, and ambition to conduct research based on routinely collected healthcare data.

You should apply if

You have relevant experience, expertise, and ambition to conduct high quality, high impact research based on very large datasets containing linked routinely collected health care data, within a UK-leading team.

Additional information

Contract type: Open-ended with funding for 3 years

This advert will close at 23:59 UK time on 17/07/2024

For informal queries please contact: Dr Rachel Denholm ) or Dr Venexia Walker )

Our strategy and mission

We recently launched our strategy to 2030 tying together our mission, vision and values.

The University of Bristol aims to be a place where everyone feels able to be themselves and do their best in an inclusive working environment where all colleagues can thrive and reach their full potential. We want to attract, develop, and retain individuals with different experiences, backgrounds and perspectives – particularly people of colour, LGBT+ and disabled people - because diversity of people and ideas remains integral to our excellence as a global civic institution.

£41,732 to £46,974 per annum, Grade I/J (Pathway 2)

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