Associate Professor in Evidence Synthesis (open to current UCL employees only)

Ref Number

B16-01493

Professional Expertise

Academic

Department

School of Education (B16)

Location

London

Working Pattern

Full time

Salary

£65,698–£71,357

Contract Type

Permanent

Working Type

Hybrid

Available for Secondment

No

Closing Date

15-Apr-2024

About IOE

IOE is UCL Faculty of Education and Society.

Founded in 1902, IOE has been shaping policy and helping government, organisations and individuals navigate a changing society for the last 120 years. We embrace collaboration and excellence to create a future that is inclusive and just, and have been ranked number one for education every year since 2014 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.

About the Social Research Institute

The Social Research Institute – formerly the Department of Social Science – in the UCL Institute of Education is one of the leading centres for social research in the UK. It is home to seven internationally renowned research units:

• Centre for Longitudinal Studies
• Centre for Time Use Research
• CLOSER
• EPPI Centre
• Quantitative Social Science
• Social Science Research Unit
• Thomas Coram Research Unit

About the EPPI Centre

The EPPI Centre, where the post holder will be based, produces, supports and promotes the use of collaborative, rigorous evidence for a fairer world.

The EPPI Centre is primarily motivated to achieve our shared mission of making trustworthy, synthesised research evidence more findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable, to support effective decision-making and practice by professionals and policy makers who work with, and commission services, for adults, children and young people. We are also united by our common goals of developing, applying and evaluating robust, state-of-the-art methods and tools, which fuse optimised inputs from people, processes and enabling technologies, to support efficient (including continual) evidence surveillance and (living) evidence synthesis, to increase the value of, and reduce waste in, research. Finally, we are highly committed to producing and mobilising research knowledge that can be used in practice to make a positive, meaningful and equitable difference to people’s lives.

For more about SSRU please see https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/departments-and-centres/centres/social-science-research-unit-ssru .

We are now seeking an Associate Professor in Evidence Synthesis to contribute to teaching in the department’s MSc and undergraduate degrees and to EPPI Centre training more widely, and to contribute to the EPPI Centre’s research.

The new post holder will enhance teaching capacity in research methodology and research use, contributing to taught MSc modules such as Evidence for Policy and Practice, and Systematic Review Design and Planning, as well as to dissertation supervision and other teaching roles as needed.

The role holder will use an interdisciplinary approach to contribute to scholarship in research synthesis and research use, while developing their own substantive research interests.

This post is open to current UCL employees only.

You will have a PhD in Social or Health Policy or Social Research Methods, or equivalent experience, along with evidence of significant scholarship in foundational areas of research methodology for systematic reviews or evidence use in health and / or welfare, including a strong record of peer-reviewed publications in leading journals.

You will also have a track record of methodological innovation in evidence synthesis and/or approaches for engaging stakeholders with research for policy decision-making.

Your application form should address all the person specification points and should clearly demonstrate how your skills and experience meet each of the criteria.

It is important that the criteria are clearly numbered and that you provide a response to each one.

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday: 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days (pro rata for part time staff)
• Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme (pro rata for part time staff)
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

Our faculty holds an Athena SWAN Bronze award, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality.

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