Research Associate London, England
Job description
About us
The Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology undertake world-leading research and teaching in mind, behaviour, and language. It brings together researchers in a range of disciplines such as developmental psychology, clinical psychology, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, health, education, communication, medicine, behaviour and development. The Department is a vibrant environment for both study and research. UCL is the top-ranked university in the UK for research in Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience.
About the role
The appointee will work as a Research Associate on a study developing an image-based mental health measure for young people. The work will involve a systematic review of existing image-based mental health measures, a community-based participatory action research study over a series of workshops to develop the measure with young people, and a think-aloud interview to understand how young people interpret and respond to an early version of the measure. There will be close working with young person peer researchers and co-researchers and other members of the team, including software developers. The lead of the project is Julian Edbrooke Childs. This is a fixed-term role available for 20 months. This is a part-time role available at 0.5FTE. The appointee will work towards the goals of an MRC-funded research project, supporting the PI and team members and contribute to the running of the project. They will conduct aspects of the different components of the project, including the systematic review, community-based participatory action research, and qualitative study. They will recruit young people, co-researchers and mental health practitioners for research and focus groups and support young people experts by experience in conducting the research. They will conduct interviews and analyse findings, and contribute to the presentation of the findings along with other duties within the scope, spirit and purpose of the job as requested by the line manager.
About you
The successful candidate will have a PhD in psychology or a related field (or be shortly due to hold a PhD), or commensurate experience. They will have experience of working in a research environment, familiarity with working with children and young people and experience of conducting qualitative research, including data collection and systematic reviews. They will be an effective team worker and committed to the involvement of young people and experts by experience in the delivery of research.
What we offer
UCL also offers a competitive benefits package including 27 days annual leave plus six closure days (with bank holidays in addition), flexible working, hybrid defined benefit & defined contribution pension scheme, season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme, enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption pay, workplace nursery, employee assistance programme and much more! For more information on our benefits, please visit our staff benefits webpage.
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
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. Our department holds an Athena SWAN Silver award, in recognition of our commitment and demonstrable impact in advancing gender equality.
