Clinical Research Fellow
- Employer
- KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
- Location
- London (Greater) (GB)
- Salary
- £44,105 - £47,632 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance
- Closing date
- 30 Jan 2025
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- Academic Discipline
- Life sciences
- Job Type
- Research Related, Other Research Related, Research Associate
- Contract Type
- Fixed Term
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
About Us
The Department of Nutritional Sciences explores the relationship between diet, health and disease from molecules to populations. Based at King’s Waterloo Campus, the Department of Nutritional Sciences combines over 60 basic and applied scientists, dietitians, nutritionists, doctors and public health experts. Our mission is to find new ways to improve health and to prevent and treat nutrition-related disease.
We began in 1953 as the first university department of nutrition in Europe and have been at the forefront of research in nutrition science and dietetics ever since. We have developed new food applications to impact blood glucose control, collected big data through citizen science to understand individual responses to food, pioneered the low FODMAP diet as a treatment for IBS, and are developing new cereal processing techniques to unlock the natural iron and zinc in staple foods.
Our Department is based in the School of Life Course & Population Sciences. It is one of six Schools that make up the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine at King’s College London. The School unites over 400 experts in women and children’s health, nutritional sciences, population health and the molecular genetics of human disease. Our research links the causes of common health problems to life’s landmark stages, treating life, disease and healthcare as a continuum. We are interdisciplinary by nature and this innovative approach works. In REF 2021, the Department and School were returned under Unit of Assessment 3 (Allied Health Professions, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy) where 70% of research was 4* (world-leading) and 95% of research was 4* and 3* (world-leading or internationally excellent), and importantly, 100% of the research environment was rated 4* (world-leading). This resulted in the highest ranking in the UK for UoA3 for research, research output, research GPA and research power. We use this expertise to teach the next generation of health professionals and research scientists. Based across King’s Denmark Hill, Guy’s, St Thomas’ and Waterloo campuses, our academic programme of teaching, research and clinical practice is embedded across five Departments.
About the role
We are looking to recruit a Postdoctoral Research Associate with a PhD in Nutrition. The post will offer leadership on a state-of-the-art large clinical trial that investigates the effect of a diet high in diversity of plant foods on gut and cardiometabolic health. This will be a feeding RCT in healthy participants and will include clinical (e.g. gut symptoms) and mechanistic outcomes (gut microbiome, metabolomics) in healthy adults.
It is a rare and incredibly exciting opportunity to work across the research spectrum at a centre of excellence for diet and health research. Furthermore, through this post, the successful individual will be able to establish themselves as a leader in human nutrition intervention studies that have the potential to inform public health policies. There will be extensive opportunity for publications and developing independence and new skills in research, including supporting the postholder to apply for research grants.
The post holder will lead on the project on a day-to-day basis with a key role including involvement in, and leadership of, developing the study protocol, obtaining the necessary regulatory approvals, recruiting study participants, delivering the dietary intervention, maintaining study documentation, co-ordinating subject correspondence and conducting study visits, processing and analysing laboratory samples, and ensuring measurements of primary and secondary outcomes are conducted according to standard operating protocols. They will also be involved in data analysis and dissemination, including manuscript preparation, and co-ordination of correspondence with funders.
This is a full-time post (35 hours per week) with a fixed term contract until 30/11/2028.
The post requires working on-site at King’s College London campus in Waterloo.
About You
To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:
Essential criteria
- PhD in Nutrition (or on a topic related to Nutrition) *
- Experience of working on human dietary intervention trials
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team on a study
- Ability to write high quality reports and manuscripts
- Flexible approach to working in terms of travel, hours, locations, different roles on different studies
- Committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, actively addressing areas of potential bias
Desirable criteria
- Experience in feeding studies
- Proficient at using academic research-related software, eg SPSS, referencing software
- Evidence of excellent organisational skills and attention to detail whilst working on a range of projects
- Experience of managing data and statistical analysis
* Please note that this is a PhD level role but candidates who have submitted their thesis and are awaiting award of their PhDs will be considered. In these circumstances the appointment will be made at Grade 5, spine point 30 with the title of Research Assistant. Upon confirmation of the award of the PhD, the job title will become Research Associate, and the salary will increase to Grade 6.
Further Information
We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.
We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's. We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.
To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘ How we Recruit’ pages.
We are able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.
This post is subject to Disclosure and Barring Service and Occupational Health clearances.
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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