Job Description
Main Activities and Responsibilities
Knowledge Generation
Undertake high-quality research and scholarship, including contributing to drafting major grant proposals and/or leading on drafting small grant proposals, and evaluating teaching practice. Contribute to peer-reviewed publications and other outputs, including as lead author. Make a contribution to doctoral student supervision, as appropriate to qualifications and experience. Manage small grants or elements of larger grants, ensuring compliance with good practice, ethics policy, and other relevant LSHTM policies. Contribute to a broad, multi-disciplinary evaluation team using multiple methods: collecting, coding, and analysing CPRD and similar data, writing up study findings, contributing to the project team, working with project collaborators, communicating research findings through conferences, mass media, and engagement with national policy-makers, health care managers, clinicians, professional bodies, and voluntary organisations. Support the project’s principal investigators in running the project, including contributions to annual reports, research ethics, and NHS R&D governance approvals. Ensure compliance with good practice in relation to the conduct of research as required by the Health Research Authority and NIHR. Support Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) as required.
Education
Contribute to the delivery of high-quality, inclusive, research-informed teaching and assessment in relation to your specific subject and within the broader area covered by your department. Contribute to the improvement of LSHTM’s education through the development of new and updated learning and teaching materials or approaches. Contribute, as required, to tutoring 1-2 MSc students or Distance Learning equivalents, and teaching seminar groups. Undergo training in teaching skills if appropriate (Certificate in Learning and Teaching).
Internal Contribution
Undertake activities that support the Department, Faculty, MRC Unit, or LSHTM. Reflect LSHTM’s EDI goals in work and behaviour. Participate in LSHTM’s PDR process. Contribute to activities that help promote the PFE’s visibility and impact within LSHTM.
External Contribution
Demonstrate good external citizenship by contributing to learned society/conference events, journal and grant reviews.
Professional Development and Training
Keep up-to-date with the latest research and pedagogic practices. Where the length and nature of the position permits, apply for and, if accepted, undertake a doctoral degree if not already acquired. Undertake and successfully complete mandatory training required by LSHTM as appropriate to the role.
General
All academic staff are free within the law to question and test received wisdom, and put forward new ideas to enable LSHTM to engage in research and promote learning to the highest possible standards. Act at all times in LSHTM’s best interests. Treat staff, students, and visitors with courtesy and respect. Comply fully with LSHTM policies, procedures, and administrative processes relevant to the role, including when acting as Principal Investigator. Uphold and support LSHTM’s values. Act as ambassadors for LSHTM when hosting visitors or attending external events.
Academic Expectations
All academic roles have a statement of academic expectations attached to each level. Role descriptions should be regularly reviewed to ensure they accurately represent the role.
Person Specification
Essential Criteria
Postgraduate degree, ideally a doctoral degree, in a relevant topic. Relevant experience in or qualifications in pharmacoepidemiology or a related field. Contributions to written output, preferably peer-reviewed, as expected by the subject area/discipline. Proven ability to work independently and collaboratively as part of a research team, and proven ability to meet research deadlines. Evidence of excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing. Evidence of good organizational skills, including effective time management. Good knowledge of important aspects of current UK or English public health, healthcare policy, and the NHS. Experience conducting quantitative analyses using large health datasets such as the Clinical Practice Research Datalink. Experience managing complex health datasets, ideally electronic health record and/or audit datasets. Fluency in R, Stata, Python, or another relevant coding language.
Desirable Criteria
Some experience of contributing to research grant applications. Some experience of teaching and assessment. Some experience of supervising and supporting junior researchers, research degree students, and non-academic staff. Some experience of ethics and data access applications, such as CPRD electronic Research Application Portal (eRAP), Health Research Authority, NHS Research Ethics Committee, and NHS R&D Governance approval processes. Some experience of primary health care research.
Deadline: 11 Dec 2025
