Senior Research Fellow – 3 Years

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Job summary

Are you excited about working with big data to gain fresh insights into young people’s digital and social media habits, and how this contributes to their mental health and wellbeing? This is your opportunity to join the Bradford Centre for Health Data Science, the leading centre for applied data science and public health research in the north of England.

We are seeking a dynamic quantitative researcher for a long-term role with substantial opportunity to develop a research agenda and career.

Bradford Institute for Health Research hosts:

– Born in Bradford, a birth cohort study including over 12,000 young people and their families;

– BiB: Age of Wonder, which is collecting data about the health and wellbeing of 30,000 adolescents in Bradford over the next 7 years;

– Born in Bradford’s Better Start, the world’s first interventional cohort study that is evaluating early life interventions such as breastfeeding support;

– Connected Bradford, a research database of linked administrative records from the from the NHS and local authority, covering the whole population of Bradford.

These resources, together with a large multidisciplinary research team and strong connections with the local community, make Bradford Institute for Health Research one of the most exciting places for health data science and epidemiology in the world.