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COVID-19 big data research: 12 month Fellowship secondment to Longitudinal Health & Wellbeing National Core Study
MRC and ESRC Fellowship Awards will support the development of a national cadre of inter-disciplinary, big-data enabled researchers and professionals from diverse analytical backgrounds as part of a 12-month secondment to the COVID-19 Longitudinal health and wellbeing National Core Study.
Sucessful applicants will receive on-the-job experience alongside leading experts in analysis and interpretation of national anonymised linked electronic health records and across multiple population longitudinal studies. They will join a cross-disciplinary, cross-institutional team working on a chosen research theme and/or data platform and will be attached to one of the collaborating institutions where you will work alongside a designated mentor. They will benefit from interactions with senior scientists in biomedical, statistical and social science domains, adopt practices to share and curate code to high-level Open Science standards and participate in preparation of policy briefings and presentations as well as research outputs.
The Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing National Core Study for COVID-19 aims to inform policy on the following COVID-19 related research themes:
- Long COVID (definition, risk factors, outcomes)
- Mental health
- Health and society
- Healthcare disruption
- Vaccination
Examples of the types of projects that may be taken forward by successful applicants might include, but are not limited to:
- Exploration of a pre-pandemic risk factor pathway for long COVID in both population longitudinal studies and electronic health records
- Impact of pandemic control measures on employment, health and wellbeing.
- Software programming to facilitate flexible interrogation of complex electronic health record data to monitor healthcare disruption and recovery
Funding
A total budget of £1 million is available to support eight to ten secondments for 12 months. Awards will start on 1st October 2021.
The scheme is open to UK-based, early to mid-career researchers and professionals from analytical disciplines, including but not limited to: statistics, data science, computer science, biomedical sciences, quantitative social science, and software engineering/development.
Researchers and professionals currently working within population health research in analytical disciplines are encouraged to apply, as are individuals with strong quantitative and data science expertise that wish to apply their skills to the themes supported by the Longitudinal Health & Wellbeing National Core Study for COVID-19. Applicants without a PhD may apply but must be able to demonstrate equivalent experience.
Candidates must have a current contract of employment extending beyond 01 November 2022 with a host organisation eligible to receive UKRI funding. These include:
- higher education institutions
- UKRI-approved independent research organisations or NHS bodies
- government-funded organisations
- MRC institutes
- MRC units and partnership institutes
- institutes and units funded by other research councils
Public sector research establishments
Exceptionally, proposals will also be accepted from public sector research establishments (PSREs).
PSREs will need to complete the appropriate eligibility form to evidence they have the capacity and capability required by UKRI.
Find instructions on how to apply for eligibility and a list of PSREs that are already eligible.
You must be able to step out from your current contract for 1 year, starting October 2021.
You will be seconded to one of the NCS-LH&W centres but can work remotely with attendance at occasional meetings as necessary. You should be ordinarily resident in the UK.