Research Fellow in Epidemiology or Data Science

Location:Aldermoor Well being Centre

Epidemiology/Knowledge Scientist to hitch the Knowledge Science Group on the Main Care Analysis Centre

About us

The Knowledge Science Analysis Group (DSG) on the College of Southampton relies within the Main Care Analysis Centre. Our work makes use of giant volumes of advanced, heterogeneous, multi-dimensional and sometimes unstructured datasets from totally different sources. We goal to know patterns, tendencies, and associations of ailments to tell preventive motion within the UK and worldwide contexts. Our group features a various multidisciplinary workforce conducting top quality and progressive analysis addressing advanced well being and social care challenges of the twenty first century. We make use of conventional statistical and epidemiological strategies, alongside cutting-edge  synthetic intelligence algorithms to achieve insights into real-world issues. That is mixed with qualitative analysis to offer a deeper understanding and software of huge knowledge findings.  

Concerning the position 

The Knowledge Science Analysis Group on the Main Care Analysis Centre is recruiting. This place is a singular alternative to work with an skilled, fast-paced and high-output analysis group, working carefully with our workforce to assist ship on grants funded by the Nationwide Institute for Well being Analysis (NIHR) and United Kingdom Analysis and Innovation (UKRI) with a give attention to understanding patterns in populations with a number of long-term circumstances.

The submit holder will likely be accountable for submitting knowledge requests, cleansing, planning and conducting fast longitudinal evaluation of digital well being information, with reproductive analytical pipelines. You’ll use CPRD and SAIL datasets together with novel linkage with social care and local weather change variables. You’ll work independently to conduct evaluation, draft high-quality tutorial analysis papers and convey outcomes of findings by shows utilizing interactive visualisations. You’ll be working beneath time pressures with tight deadlines.

The submit is funded for 10 months within the first occasion with an extra 2 years of extra funding obtainable. 

About you

In case you imagine you meet the necessities for the submit, come and be part of us to take ahead this thrilling alternative and turn into a part of an progressive and dynamic analysis group the place you can be valued, included and supported. The Analysis Fellow will need to have a PhD in epidemiology, knowledge science or different associated subject or related expertise. You’ll have sturdy knowledge linkage and superior statistical evaluation abilities, together with expertise with longitudinal evaluation on STATA, R or Python, which will be utilized to large-scale digital well being report knowledge from hospitals and first care, in addition to expertise of analysing multi-source digital well being information.

For a casual dialogue concerning the submit please contact the group chief and principal investigator Affiliate Professor Hajira Dambha-Miller at : [email protected] .

The School of Medication holds an Athena SWAN Silver Award demonstrating dedication to equal alternatives and gender steadiness within the office. 

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