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Form of workWe are seeking a skilled and proactive quantitative post-doctoral RESEARCH ASSOCIATE for an innovative research project about knee replacement within a new MRC-funded national network ‘Health Research from Home’ (HRfH). The post will suit an ambitious researcher with a background in epidemiology, biostatistics or health data science and an interest in conducting novel MOBILE HEALTH RESEARCH. The postholder will lead, together with a wider interdisciplinary team, the delivery and analysis of pioneering work linking patient-generated health data with more traditional data sources.
The HRfH partnership involves academics and public contributors from Manchester (lead site), King’s College London, Imperial College London, Edinburgh, Oxford and Cambridge Universities, in collaboration with Health Data Research UK, Google, Verily Life Sciences and GSK.
Over the next three years, the network aims to collate and spread best practice in smartphone and wearable population HEALTH RESEARCH to the wider community, and to pioneer the successful linkage of smartphone and wearable data to existing HEALTH RESEARCH databanks. The post-holder will lead the set-up, conduct and analysis of one of two pathfinder or ‘driver’ projects, seeking to link person-generated data to NHS data and generate clinically impactful research results about physical activity following knee replacement.
The postholder will be involved in the detailed design and specification of how to run a retrospective cohort study that
a) advertises direct to patients and the public
b) collects eConsent and participant identifiers including NHS number to enable linkage of consumer activity data to NHS data,
c) accesses consumer activity data via publicly available APIs,
d) links the retrospective activity data with retrospective NHS data
e) analyses the resultant linked dataset
The applicant may have a background in epidemiology and biostatistics, health informatics or other related disciplines, and must be willing to contribute to all stages of the study lifecycle including patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE), detailed protocol design and ethics submission, through to analysis and write-up of results.
The work will be supported by a programme manager, a communications officer, a research software engineer, an information governance manager and PPIE post-doctoral researcher.
What you will get in return:
- Fantastic market leading Pension scheme
- Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme
- Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays
- Additional paid closure over the Christmas period
- Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers
As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.
Our University is positive about flexible working – you can find out more here
Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.
Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.
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Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:
Name: Prof Will Dixon
Email: Will.Dixon@manchester.ac.uk
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This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.
Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.
