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Research Associate in Autism Evaluation and Data Science (mHealth)

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (South), London (Greater) (GB)
Salary
£37,412 - £44,015 inclusive of London Allowance
Closing date
11 Jul 2019

Job Details

This four-year postdoctoral role is for an individual with strong knowledge of measurement in autism and/or related neurodevelopmental disorders and who has a keen interest in the application of wearable technology and other forms of objective data capture to the measurement of patient symptoms and experience. Alongside excellent analytic skills, the post-holder will be expected to show initiative, problem-solving, a sensitivity to patient needs and preferences in capturing accurate, and representative data in a manner that is acceptable to the client group. While considerable work has already been done to identify key outcome targets, the post-holder will need to evaluate alternative measures, based on knowledge of key outcomes and biomarkers in autism, to identify the most promising types of data to collect and strategies for acquisition.  The post-holder will work actively with both the research associate responsible for data analytics and also the researchers who take direct responsibility for data acquisition, in order to understand any difficulties and limitations they are experiencing and should help to provide potential solutions. The post-holder should expect to have some direct interactions with research participants to better understand their feedback on the data acquisition modalities and instruments being used, and to consider pro-actively alternatives that may mitigate and problems they are experiencing.

Company

King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.

King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.

King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.

King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.

King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.

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