Research Fellow; Quantitative - Department of Applied Health Sciences Grade 8

Position Details

Department of Applied Health Sciences, School of Health Sciences, College of Medicine and Health

Location:

University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

Full time starting salary is normally in the range £47,389 to £56,535 with potential progression once in post to £63,606

Grade: 8

Full Time, Fixed Term contract up to September 2030

Closing date: 14th January 2026

To create and disseminate knowledge through initiating and conducting original research and through publication, as appropriate to the disciplinary area.

This post will sit within the Department of Applied Health Sciences and will support the delivery of the NIHR Research Professorship awarded to Professor Joht Singh Chandan (NIHR
306365 ). The Research Professorship aims to optimise the health sector response to violence against women and children by:

• advancing multi-sector data linkage using Secure Data Environments
• estimating the health and economic burden of violence
• evaluating trauma-informed models of care
• improving maternity outcomes and reducing inequalities
• strengthening survivor engagement

This post will deliver the quantitative work package, WP2 ‘Estimating the burden associated with violence against women and children and trauma, using advanced epidemiology, multi-sector data linkage, statistical modelling and risk factor estimation’.

The post requires strong quantitative skills to support multi-level epidemiological analyses, causal inference, risk factor estimation, health inequalities modelling and complex dataset construction.

The Fellow will also contribute (as a secondary aspect) to aligned programmes within Professor Chandan’s portfolio, including the Hub for Health Inequalities, the NIHR Challenge:
Maternity Disparities Consortium, and the NIHR Global Health Research Group ().

The role will involve planning and co-ordinating high-quality quantitative research, including advanced epidemiological analyses, health inequalities modelling, and SDE-based data linkage. The post holder will lead the analytical and quantitative components of WP2, including exposure–outcome modelling, risk estimation, and burden estimation (e.g., incident, DALY-like approaches, population-attributable fractions). The role will also contribute to development of a UK analytical hub connected to the GBD Europe initiative through quantitative risk factor estimation and model development.

• Initiate and conduct original research which has measurable outcomes and is reflected in a growing national and often incipient international reputation
• Plan, design and co-ordinate research activities and programmes
• Contribute to the development of research strategies
• Publish results of own research
• Supervise PhD students
• Contribute to the Department/School through management/leadership
• Develop and make substantial contributions to knowledge transfer, enterprise, business engagement, public engagement activities, widening participation, schools outreach or similar activities at Department/School level or further within the University

To plan and carry out research, using appropriate methodology and techniques. This may include, where appropriate to the discipline:

• Pursue personal research including developing research ideas and winning support, including financial support
• Plan, publish and/or execute high quality quantitative research
• Project manage research activities, and/or supervise other research staff
• Present high quality findings in publications and conference proceedings
• Develop novel statistical methodologies and techniques appropriate to multi-sector data integration and violence-related risk factor analysis
• Supervise and examine PhD students, both within and out with the University
• Provide expert advice to colleagues and students within discipline
• Contribute to the administration/management of research across the Department/School
• Develop and make substantial contributions to knowledge transfer, enterprise, business engagement, and public engagement activities relating to violence prevention, inequalities and trauma-informed care of manifest benefit to the College and the University
• Contribute to some administrative activities…