"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

We are seeking to appoint an experienced, motivated and enthusiastic researcher to join a team to conduct research into school-age outcomes for children with hearing loss. Each year, 1-2 in every thousand newborns are diagnosed with hearing loss in the UK. In the UK Millennium Cohort Study, ~22% of children in the cohort were reported to experience some form of hearing loss (including mild, unilateral HL, late-onset, progressive, or fluctuating hearing loss) by 14 years. Children with hearing loss are at risk of delayed language and communication skills, with potentially significant impact on cognitive development, educational achievement, emotional wellbeing, mental health, and quality of life. In this project we will use linked routinely collected health and education data to address gaps in our understanding about health, neurodevelopment and educational outcomes at school-age for children living with hearing loss. The salary offered in this role is £45,103 per annum and is fun ded until 09/06/2027 in the first instance.

About you

The successful candidate will have skills in advanced quantitative methods including longitudinal data analysis using large-scale administrative and cohort data. Further particulars are included in the job description.
Customer advert reference: B02-10194