Senior Researcher in Health Economics

The Nuffield Department of Population Health (NDPH) contains world renowned population health research groups and provides an excellent environment for multi-disciplinary research and teaching. Based within NDPH, the Health Economics Research Centre (HERC) is a well-established group involved in a wide range of methodological and applied research projects, both national and international. This post provides the opportunity to conduct health economic research on a wide range of large data sets collected as part of clinical trials, registries and administrative databases.

As a Senior Researcher you will work on economic issues related to health and social care for dementia. You will develop, plan and lead a programme of work in collaboration with senior HERC and Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) Oxford and Thames Valley (OxTV) researchers. Your key responsibilities will involve developing and implementing new and/or apply existing research methodologies, promoting the ARC Dementia programme nationally and internationally and raising further research funding to develop the programme of research in the long term.

To be considered you will hold a relevant Ph.D/D.Phil in Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Epidemiology or other quantitative discipline, have experience of working with Stata and/or R and considerable research experience in the area of health economics, statistical and econometric analysis of complex observational datasets and electronic health record databases. You will also have an established (inter)national reputation and peer review publication record.

The post is full time (part time considered) and fixed term for 2 years. The closing date for applications is noon on Friday, 27 January 2023.

You will be required to upload a CV and a cover letter as part of your online application. The cover letter should clearly describe how you meet each of the selection criteria listed in the job description.