KINGS COLLEGE LONDON: Analysis Assistant within the Division of Social, Genetic & Dev Psychiatry

About us:

Concerning the College

The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) is devoted to discovering what causes psychological sickness and illnesses of the mind. As well as, its purpose is to assist determine new therapies for them and methods to stop them within the first place. The affect of the Institute’s work was judged to be 100% ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally-excellent’ within the Analysis Excellence Framework 2014. The IoPPN has a wealthy historical past of pioneering research, enhancing patient care, influencing coverage change, elevating consciousness of circumstances affecting the mind or sharing information by education.  Go to right here for extra info: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn

Concerning the Division

The SGDP Centre’s mission is to undertake research on the affect and interaction between genetic, environmental and developmental components, and their roles within the causal processes underlying the origins and course of multifactorial psychological problems; to contemplate the implications for scientific follow and public health coverage; and to coach others within the methodologies concerned.

The SGDP Centre continues to make sure its place on the forefront of worldwide scientific research. The Centre makes main contributions to teaching, coaching and research by inspiring and nurturing collaborative research inside an interdisciplinary context. Go to right here for extra info: www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/depts/sgdp-centre/index

Concerning the Crew

The Platforms for Longitudinal Psychological Well being Information (PALM) crew, led by Professor Louise Arseneault, focuses on rising the discoverability and accessibility of longitudinal psychological health information. The crew works to maximise longitudinal information’s uptake and facilitate psychological health research by creating platforms that present easy accessibility to details about longitudinal psychological health information. The crew’s initiatives embrace the Catalogue of Psychological Well being Measures and the Landscaping Worldwide Longitudinal Datasets undertaking.

Concerning the function:

In September 2022, our crew undertook a worldwide seek for longitudinal datasets internationally to supply a springboard for creating new and revolutionary psychological health research whereas harnessing present information sources. In August 2023, we submitted our report on the Landscaping Worldwide Longitudinal Datasets undertaking to the undertaking funder, the Wellcome Belief. On this report, we supplied 1) a listing of all longitudinal datasets we recognized worldwide; 2) a complete evaluation of the richness of these datasets for psychological health research; and three) an in-depth evaluation of a collection of the biggest ongoing datasets to uncover revolutionary sources for researchers that may assist transformative psychological health research.

In furthering this aim, the Wellcome Belief has funded the creation and improvement of a platform for longitudinal psychological health information to transform and develop the data included in our report (https://www.landscaping-longitudinal-research.com/what-we-found) into an internet searchable device that will probably be freely accessible.

We’re in search of a Analysis Assistant to be a part of an in-house crew at King’s Faculty London and work alongside a spread of companions together with a web developer and AI advisor, transparency and engagement coordinators and Lived Expertise Specialists (LEEs). As a part of their function, the submit holders will assist the event of a brand new on-line platform that can maintain metadata for greater than 3,000 longitudinal datasets from internationally. The submit holders will probably be answerable for conducting opinions of details about longitudinal datasets and extracting related particulars for the brand new on-line platform, guaranteeing that the data is correct and updated, liaising with inside and exterior collaborators, taking part within the evaluation of the metadata, trying to find further repositories of longitudinal datasets, pondering creatively about enlargement and enchancment of the platform, disseminating updates concerning the platform on social media and different channels and updating the pool of longitudinal datasets.

This can be a full-time submit (35 Hours per week), and you can be provided as a hard and fast time period contract till 31 July 2025.

About you:

To achieve success on this function, we’re searching for candidates to have the next abilities and expertise:

Important standards

1.      Educated to diploma stage in psychology, computing, technology or associated disciplines

2.      Data or expertise in psychology, psychological health and associated disciplines

3.      Technical abilities together with proficiency in utilizing Microsoft Phrase, Excel, Entry, PowerPoint, Outlook and Canva

4.      Organisation abilities in submitting, doc management and normal administrative abilities

5.      Data of longitudinal datasets

Fascinating standards

1.      Expertise in managing massive volumes of knowledge

2.      Expertise utilizing statistical computing programmes equivalent to R or STATA

3.      Expertise managing a different workload with conflicting priorities

4.      Capability to work independently and in a crew

Downloading a duplicate of our Job Description

Full particulars of the function and the talents, information and expertise required might be discovered within the Job Description doc, supplied on the backside of the following web page after you click on “Apply Now”. This doc will present info of what standards will probably be assessed at every stage of the recruitment course of.

Additional info

We pleasure ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace range and need everybody to really feel that they belong and are related to others in our community.

We’re dedicated to working with our workers and unions on these and different points, to proceed to assist our individuals and to develop a various and inclusive tradition at King’s.

We ask all candidates to submit a duplicate of their CV, and a supporting assertion, detailing how they meet the important standards listed within the advert. If we obtain a robust area of candidates, we could use the fascinating standards to decide on our remaining shortlist, so please embrace your proof towards these the place potential.

To learn how our managers will evaluation your utility, please check out our ‘ How we Recruit’ pages.

We’re not capable of supply sponsorship for candidates who don’t at the moment possess the appropriate to work within the UK.