Research Assistant In Transgender Health

Fixed term up to January 2025 This is an exciting opportunity to join the Trans Gap Project (TGP) team, who are working to address the gaps in knowledge in clinical decision-making tools when applied to transgender patients. The role will involve working with a distributed team of medical students, junior doctors and academics in completing reviews of evidence and literature relating to clinical calculators and decision aids (e.g. for calculating renal function). We aim to produce a series of reviews and recommendations that will support clinicians and transgender patients alike in making decisions about healthcare. You will work closely with the TGP team lead and the academic lead in coordinating the wider team’s work and ensuring high quality outputs. You will also support the process of publication, translation and dissemination of these works, to maximise their impact, through the use of social media, engaging with mainstream media and key stakeholders such as the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE). In this role, you will also provide key support in securing further funding to sustain ongoing work. The project is funded for a period of 12 months by the TRANSforming Futures consortium, and provides a unique opportunity to directly shape work to improve the healthcare that transgender patients receive at a national level. Queries and informal discussions are welcome by contacting Dr Duncan Shrewsbury (Academic Lead) directly via d.shrewsbury@bsms.ac.uk in the first instance. The University is committed to equality and valuing diversity, and applications are particularly welcomed from women and black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic posts in Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Mathematics (STEMM) at Sussex.