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Senior Research Associate in Medical Statistics/Epidemiology - MRC IEU

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Global Academy Jobs
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United Kingdom
Closing date
Feb 27, 2017

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The University is committed to creating and sustaining a fully inclusive culture.  We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and communities.

We are seeking a postdoctoral senior research associate in medical statistics/ epidemiology (with excellent statistical skills) to use and extend multilevel models for analysing within-person variation. The post is full time for 2.5 years (until 31st December 2019), and will be based in the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit within the School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol.

There is growing interest in whether the variability of an individual's repeated exposure measures (e.g. repeated measures of blood pressure) might be related to health. In this project, we aim to develop statistical methods for modelling this within-person variation, and relating that variation to later disease. The project includes simulating repeated continuous data, developing and applying statistical methods (multilevel and Bayesian methods), and writing software code to carry out the new methods (ideally in R and/or Stata). Work will involve the analysis of repeated blood pressure measures, exposure and health outcome data within the ALSPAC study.

You will work with a multidisciplinary team of statisticians, epidemiologists and clinicians, including experts from the Centre for Multilevel Modelling (Bristol). Opportunities for continued training and development are available through short courses run by the School and through the University of Bristol’s staff development programme.

You will have a PhD (or equivalent research experience) in medical/applied statistics or a related quantitative discipline and a track record of research published in high impact journals. Experience analysing longitudinal data is desirable. Skills in simulating data and developing/extending statistical methods would be an advantage.

For an informal discussion about the post, please contact Professor Kate Tilling - email: Kate.Tilling@bristol.ac.uk

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