Job Vacancies - Research Assistants

We are currently advertising for two Research Assistants to join the Health Economics and Decision Science (HEDS) Section to provide support on a range of applied policy and methodological research.

ScHARR, Regent Court

Reference Number: UOS033854

Salary: Grade 6

Details: Part-time (17.5 hours per week) and fixed-term until September 2024

Closing Date: 3 August 2022 

 

The vacancy and ATJ can be found can be found here. 

You will work within the Health Economics and Decision Science (HEDS) Section (www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/sections/heds) as part of a multidisciplinary team providing support to health economics/decision modelling research staff on a range of applied policy and methodological research with a particular focus on cost-effectiveness of healthcare and public health interventions. 

The work will involve contribution and support to a range of projects funded by research grants and knowledge exchange consultancy. The projects involve designing and undertaking health economic, statistical, and epidemiological modelling based analyses for policy appraisal. The work is for a wide range of decision makers. The funders/customers include the Department of Health and Social Care and related agencies, major UK research councils such as NIHR. Local NHS and government organisations and commercial organisations. Analysis of complex datasets and design of health economic models are key activities, as is methodological development to support cost-effectiveness analysis. Approaches used within the projects include decision analytic modelling (e.g. Markov and discrete event simulations), optimisation techniques, and econometrics and multivariate statistical analyses. 

You will provide support to senior health economists and modellers, contribute to the design of evaluations, undertake supervised analyses and contribute to peer-reviewed reports, journals and conference presentations. The successful applicant will also contribute to writing research and consultancy tenders. You will also contribute to the Section’s teaching responsibilities by delivering tutorials. A graduate qualification in a numerate subject (e.g. statistics, economics, operational research, mathematics, or quantitative applied sciences or social sciences) is essential and a post-graduate qualification or equivalent experience is desirable. 

This post is designed to undertake project work half-time and at the same time undertake parttime education on our Masters in Health Economics and Decision Modelling (http://www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/prospective_students/masters/hedm). There is also the option for a candidate who is already fully qualified in Health Economic Modelling to take the role part-time without undertaking the MSc. 

Two Job Vacancies at ScHARR - Research Assistants

We are currently advertising for two Research Assistants to join the Health Economics and Decision Science (HEDS) Section as part of the Sheffield Alcohol Research Group (SARG).

** Closing date Monday 27th June **

ScHARR, Regent Court

Are you interested in working for a world top 100 University?

We have an exciting opportunity in the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) to join the Health Economics and Decision Science (HEDS) Section as part of the Sheffield Alcohol Research Group (SARG). You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team providing support to health economics/decision modelling research staff on a range of applied policy and methodological research with a particular focus on the effects of alcohol and of tobacco.

The post is funded as part of the UK Prevention Research programme:- Shaping public health policies to reduce inequalities and harm (SPECTRUM). The projects involve designing and undertaking health economic, statistical, and epidemiological modelling-based analyses for policy appraisal.

Analysis of complex datasets and design of health economic models are key activities, as is methodological development to support the policy appraisal process. You will also contribute to writing research and consultancy tenders, and contribute to the Section’s teaching responsibilities by delivering tutorials.

You will have a graduate qualification in a numerate subject (e.g. statistics, economics, operational research, mathematics, or quantitative applied sciences or social sciences). A post-graduate qualification or equivalent experience is desirable.

This post is designed to undertake project work half-time and at the same time undertake parttime education on our Masters in Health Economics and Decision Modelling (with an option for a candidate who is already fully qualified to take the role part-time without undertaking the MSc). 

Reference Number: UOS033256

Contract Type: Fixed-term for 2 years, 26 September 2022 - 25 September 2024

Working Pattern: Part-time: working 17.5 hours per week, working pattern to be agreed.

Faculty: Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health

Department: School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR)

Salary: Grade 6

Closing Date: Monday 27 June 2022

The vacancy and ATJ can be found here.

HESG2022 - Summer Conference - Sheffield 22nd - 24th June

 

HESG2022 - Summer Conference - Sheffield 22-24 June 2022  Celebrating 50 years of HESG www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/hesg-2022 Conference registration and abstract submission now open!  Please visit the HESG website to submit an abstract by   Friday 25th March Register here to book your place at the 100th Health Economists' Study Group (HESG) meeting, hosted by ScHARR HEDS on Wednesday 22nd to Friday 24th June 2022. Early bird rates are available until Saturday 30th April.  We are delighted to announce that we will be holding an ECR workshop, 'Introduction to Machine Learning for Causal Inference', on the morning of Wednesday 22nd June, for ECRs attending the conference.  The conference will be held at the Best Western Plus The Quays Hotel on Sheffield's historic Victoria Quays. Further details can be found on our conference webpage, which is updated regularly.  If you have any questions, please contact us at  hesg-summer-2022@sheffield.ac.uk  We look forward to welcoming you to Sheffield this summer!  HESG Conference Planning Committee @HESG2022Shef

 Extending the QALY beyond health – the EQ-HWB (Health and well-being)

Professor John Brazier

Join us online for a monthly online masterclass by one of our health research experts based in The School of Health and Related Research

Join the live session by clicking the link below

https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/fbae374ad6ed4eeea1ed792b69c

Abstract
Measures for estimating Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) (e.g. EQ-5D, SF-6D) attempt to capture the health of patients but miss broader wellbeing considerations such as autonomy and relationships that are important to patients and users of social care. Furthermore these measures do not consider the impact on carers’ quality of life. This limitation of existing measures led to the joint MRC and Euroqol Research Foundation funded Extending the QALY (E-QALY) project.
On behalf of the E-QALY team, John Brazier will describe the idea for a new and broader measure of health and wellbeing (i.e. why it was needed) for use in health and social care, some of the conceptual issues encountered and how they were approached in a large international programme of work. He will also present the mixed methods empirical work to develop the new measure called the EQ Health and WellbeingTM (EQ-HWB). Please come along and join in the discussion about the empirical research and the policy questions this new measure raises.
Bio
John Brazier is a Professor of Health Economics in the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at the University of Sheffield. He was the first Director of the Economic Evaluation Policy Research Unit (EEPRU) which is a joint Sheffield and York Unit funded by the Department of Health in England to undertake applied and methodological research to inform health policy in England. Professor Brazier is currently a NIHR Senior Investigator (Emeritus).
Professor Brazier has more than 25 years’ experience of conducting economic evaluations of health care interventions for policy makers and has published over 200 peered reviewed papers. His special interest is in the measurement and valuation of health for economic evaluation where he has published widely.
Perhaps best known for his work in developing a preference-based measure of health for the SF-36 (SF-6D), but with colleagues he has further developed and extended these methods to a number of specific condition including measures in asthma, cancer, overactive bladder, diabetes, mental health, dementia and epilepsy.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/john-e-brazier
John Brazier on Twitter

The QALY at 50: One story many voices

ScHARR colleagues Professor Aki Tsuchiya and Dr Ruth Wong have collaborated on a paper that explores the impact and celebrates two seminal papers that shaped early QALY development.

Highlights from the paper

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Two seminal papers from North America define the QALY we know today.

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Systematic searches identified 716 papers citing both these seminal papers.

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Co-citation analysis and visualisations highlight a range of methodological topics.

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Behavioural theories are shown to inform research into how we get the numbers.

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Research is also needed on what the numbers mean and what aspects to incorporate.

Spencer, A., Rivero-Arias, O., Wong, R., Tsuchiya, A., Bleichrodt, H., Edward, R. T., & Clarke, P. (2021). The QALY at 50: One story many voices. Social Science & Medicine, 114653.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114653

There's also an accompanying interview of George Torrance, the father (or one of the fathers) of the QALY:

Short clip: https://youtu.be/jeWdkrvLO6Q
The main recording: https://youtu.be/NBcyOfkSGfs

ScHARR Mini Masterclass in Health Research - Estimating the comparative effectiveness of cancer treatments - Wednesday 16th February 2022

Fact or fiction? Estimating the comparative effectiveness of cancer treatments using UK registry data

Dr Nicholas Latimer

Wednesday 16th February 2022 (Online 13:00 - 14:00 GMT)

Join us online for a monthly online masterclass by one of our health research experts based in The School of Health and Related Research

About this event

In the UK we collect very large amounts of data on cancer patients, held by the National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (NCRAS). Given that we collect all this data, it makes sense to think about what we can do with it: can we use it to robustly compare the real world effectiveness of cancer treatments? The issue with analysing observational data is that there are lots of potential biases – for example, confounding by indication, where patients who receive one treatment may differ prognostically from patients who receive a different treatment. This makes comparisons of treatment effectiveness difficult. However, using methods from the causal inference literature in a “Target Trial” framework may overcome these problems, if the data used to conduct the analyses are comprehensive enough. In Sheffield a programme of work is being undertaken to investigate whether cancer registry data collected in the UK are sufficient for comparing the effectiveness of cancer treatments used in clinical practice, mirroring work also being done in the US and Canada. I will describe the research and comment on progress made so far.

Join the live session by clicking the link:

below.https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/fbae374ad6ed4eeea1ed792b69c

Nicholas Latimer

Nick is a Reader in Health Economics. He joined ScHARR in 2008 having previously worked in consultancy and the pharmaceutical industry. He has a degree in Economics from the University of Nottingham (2003), an MSc in Health Economics from the University of York (2004) and a PhD in Health Economics from the University of Sheffield (2012). Since joining ScHARR Nick has worked on a variety of projects, including economic evaluations alongside clinical trials, NICE Technology Appraisals, and consultancy projects. His research has focused on the incorporation of survival analysis in economic evaluations and he has completed NIHR Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships on this topic. In 2019 Nick began a Senior Research Fellowship funded by Yorkshire Cancer Research in which he is investigating the application of causal inference techniques to estimate comparative effectiveness from cancer registry datasets. Nick has authored NICE Decision Support Unit technical support documents on survival analysis (TSD14, 2011), treatment switching (TSD16, 2014), and partitioned survival analysis (TSD19, 2017), and is a member of NICE Technology Appraisal Committee B.

Twitter

Nick's profile

Link to the webinar

https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/fbae374ad6ed4eeea1ed792b69cc2b6c

The live session takes place in a Collaborate webinar - headphones are advisable and easy to set up. You can join with a computer, tablet or smartphone, Chrome and Firefox offer the best browser experience.You can also use a phone to handle audio while in the session by dialling +44 2033 189610 and entering the PIN: 398 583 2702.

We look forward to seeing you online.

ScHARR Mini Master Class in Health Research - Alcohol and Pricing - Tuesday 7th December

 

Join us online for a monthly online masterclass by one of our health research experts based in The School of Health and Related Research

Alcohol and pricing: 

Beyond modelling to evaluation and duty reform

Professor John Holmes  

Director of the Sheffield Alcohol Research Group and Lead Director of the Wellcome Doctoral Training Centre in Public Health Economics and Decision Science

Abstract
Alcohol remains a major cause of ill health, and deaths due to alcohol during the COVID-19 pandemic heighten this concern. This presentation will explore the role of alcohol prices as a driver of alcohol-related health problems and a target for public health responses. After setting out the evidence on key pricing trends and concerns, the presentation will describe emerging evidence suggesting positive effects of minimum unit pricing in Scotland and the Australian Northern Territory. It will also explore the Government’s ongoing alcohol duty review and the potential for radical policy change if the Government follows through on its suggestions.

Bio
John is the Director of the Sheffield Alcohol Research Group and Lead Director of the Wellcome Doctoral Training Centre in Public Health Economics and Decision Science. He completed his training in the University of York’s Social Policy department with a thesis focused on inequalities, risks and opportunities associated with young people’s internet use. He then spent one-year researching child poverty and well-being. Since 2010, he has worked at the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at the University of Sheffield, where he has contributed key epidemiological evidence and policy analyses to national and international alcohol policy debates. In particular, he has worked on minimum unit pricing (MUP), other pricing policies and low risk drinking guidelines. He currently leads an evaluation of the impact of MUP on harmful drinkers in Scotland, research on drinking occasions, practices and culture, and a Wellcome Investigator Award examining the sharp decline in youth drinking.

Join the live session by clicking the link below.

https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/fbae374ad6ed4eeea1ed792b69cc2b6c

The live session takes place in a Collaborate webinar - headphones are advisable and easy to set up. You can join with a computer, tablet or smartphone, Chrome and Firefox offer the best browser experience.

You can also use a phone to handle audio while in the session by dialling +44 2033 189610 and entering the PIN: 398 583 2702.
We look forward to seeing you online.

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/john-holmes
https://twitter.com/jholmessheff

Job vacancy @ ScHARR - Research Associate / Fellow (Sheffield Alcohol Research Group)

 

Sheffield Alcohol Research Group (SARG) is seeking to appoint a highly motivated Research Associate (G7) or Research Fellow (G8). SARG is an internationally leading centre for alcohol policy, epidemiological and health economic research, bringing together disciplines including public health, operational research, psychology, sociology, engineering, and economics. The group carries out innovative research relating to the prevention of physical and mental ill health caused by alcohol consumption, and more recently smoking. Founded in 2008, SARG is supported by a large number of grants from funders including the MRC, ESRC, NIHR and Wellcome.

The University of Sheffield has provided strategic funding for SARG to invest in developing its research programme. We are therefore seeking an experienced researcher to work closely with SARG’s senior management team to develop a number of research grant applications over an 18 month period. This will include a large consortium or programme grant.

As a Research Associate, you should have experience of leading or collaborating on research grant applications. As a Research Fellow, you should possess a sound understanding of all aspects of generating academic funding bids and have experience of successful grant applications and of submitting a large grant application as a lead or co-investigator (e.g. with a budget over £300k). At both levels, you should have experience of conducting rapid literature reviews, preparatory data exploration and analysis, and stakeholder engagement or co-production.

You should possess strong spoken and written communication skills for liaising with multiple partners and external bodies. Excellent interpersonal skills are essential. You should be able to independently plan and deliver work with minimal supervision and direction.

This role provides excellent opportunities to develop your career and shape your own future research programme. You will also engage routinely with policy stakeholders and participate in generating research impact within a supportive, flexible and friendly environment.

The post would suit a public health researcher with a strong grounding in epidemiology, health economics or related disciplines. An appreciation of wider public health policy and political considerations is desirable.

We are committed to exploring flexible working opportunities which benefit the individual and University.

We’re one of the best not-for-profit organisations to work for in the UK. The University’s Total Reward Package includes a competitive salary, a generous Pension Scheme and annual leave entitlement, as well as access to a range of learning and development courses to support your personal and professional development.

We build teams of people from different heritages and lifestyles from across the world, whose talent and contributions complement each other to greatest effect. We believe diversity in all its forms delivers greater impact through research, teaching and student experience.

To find out what makes the University of Sheffield a remarkable place to work, watch this short film: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LblLk18zmo, and follow @sheffielduni and @ShefUniJobs on Twitter for more information.

To apply, click here

Funded PhD: Systems level modelling in older people/urgent and emergency care with the Health Economics, evaluation and equality theme (HEEE) of the ARC YH

The School of Health related Research, at the University of Sheffield is pleased to advertise a funded PhD opportunity.  The studentship is part of a research programme for the NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (NIHR ARCs). The studentship would be within the Health Economics, Evaluation and Equality (HEEE) cross-cutting theme of the Yorkshire and Humber ARC and will focus on one of the core themes outlined below. 

The Yorkshire & Humber NIHR ARC is a collaboration between NHS, social care, third sector and industry organisations and leading universities in Yorkshire and the Humber. It aims to transform services and improve peoples’ health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities through four strategically important core themes:

·       Early life and Prevention

·       Older people with Frailty

·       Mental and Physical Multimorbidity

·       Urgent and Emergency Care

The HEEE theme aims to work collaboratively with the four core themes and in partnership with local NHS, public health and social care collaborators. This research will focus on improving efficiency and equity in the use of public resources using methods for conducting cross-sector evaluations including mathematical modelling, statistical and econometric methods. The HEEE theme are offering a PhD opportunity and strongly encourage candidates to propose topics in the following areas:

Older Peoples Theme

Develop a system level approach to model the economic arguments of implementing interventions to prevent/improve frailty and delayed transfers of care (DTOC) for older people with complex and heterogeneous needs. The theme will look to simulate the reality of supply side availability and constraints as well as using conventional economic theory to understand the economic incentives and outcomes for patients and stakeholders such as the NHS and Social Services.  

Urgent and Emergency Care Theme

Develop a systems modelling approach to identify and evaluate options for preventing excessive Emergency Departments waiting times. We are particularly interested in developing simulation approaches to examine system level interventions to reduce ED attendances and manage flows through a Department. For example, work may focus on the analysis of options to avoid unnecessary attendances or to avoid delays in transferring patients out of hospital, the design of performance metrics that avoid perverse incentives, or combinations of interventions. The successful applicant will have access to a large routine data set of the ED including arrivals, investigations and treatments in hospitals within the region to help inform the model.

Regent Court, The University of Sheffield

Entry Requirements:

Candidates must:

·       be highly motivated to make a significant scientific contribution in health and social care through research that can inform well-evidenced, cost-effective health strategies

·       have completed an undergraduate degree (equivalent to 2.1 or above) in a relevant discipline (e.g. mathematics, statistics, epidemiology, economics, operational research, systems engineering, management science, physics, systems control).

·       have completed a master’s degree at merit or distinction (or a non-UK equivalent) in a relevant subject, or more than one year of formal employment in a relevant scientific environment

·       have excellent verbal and written communication skills

·       meet English language requirements (international applicants).

Further details:

https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/systems-level-modelling-in-older-people-urgent-and-emergency-care-with-the-health-economics-evaluation-and-equality-theme-heee-of-the-arc-yh/?p134121

How to apply:

Please complete a University Postgraduate Research Application form available here: www.shef.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/apply

Please clearly state the title of the studentship, the prospective main supervisor and select ScHARR as the department.

You will also need to include:

·       a draft outline of your proposed PhD study, in line with the research themes described above, of approximately 500 words

·       a covering letter explaining why you wish to apply for this studentship.

·       a copy of your CV.

Funding Notes

The award will cover academic fees at the UK rate plus a maintenance stipend for 3 years (£15,009 in 2020/21).

ScHARR Mini Master Class in Health Research - Measuring and Valuing Health for Children and Adolescents - Dr Philip Powell & Dr Donna Rowen - 15th June 2021 13:00 - 14:00 BST

Join us online for a monthly online masterclass by one of our health research experts based in The School of Health and Related Research

ScHARR Mini Master Class in Health Research

About this Event

Measuring and Valuing Health for Children and Adolescents
Tue, 15 June 2021, 13:00 – 14:00 BST

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/measuring-and-valuing-health-for-children-and-adolescents-tickets-152383012693

Healthcare treatments and vaccinations can be expensive, but healthcare systems have limited budgets. The allocation of these budgets requires us to measure health and put a value on how good or bad different states of health are. There are accepted methods for measuring and valuing adult health, but this is not the case for children and adolescents. Neither is it the case that methods used for adults can be uncritically applied to younger people. Instead, this talk will explore why it is necessary to think differently when measuring and valuing health for children; what conceptual, methodological, and normative issues the process raises; and what the potential solutions are. This is the subject of ongoing research being conducted in ScHARR and elsewhere globally. Questions for researchers include who should report how a child is feeling? What aspects of child health are important? Who should decide which aspects of child health are most important? What methods should be used to put a value on child and adolescent health? In this talk we will address these questions and more as we review the current state-of-the-art thinking into the measurement and valuation of child health.

Bios

Philip Powell

Philip Powell is a Research Fellow in the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield and part of the ScHARR Outcomes team (https://scharr.dept.shef.ac.uk/outcomes/). He has a research background in Psychology, but has worked in the field of economics (and health economics) for over 7 years, now specialising in outcomes research. Philip uses mixed methods in his research and has interest and expertise in the development of new measures for assessing quality of life in specific health conditions, including in children and rare diseases. He also conducts methodological research in the measurement and valuation of health and quality of life, with recent projects exploring the normative, methodological, and practical aspects of how health states are valued for children and adolescents.

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/philip-powell

https://twitter.com/philapowell

Donna Rowen

Donna Rowen is a Senior Research Fellow in ScHARR, University of Sheffield and part of the ScHARR Outcomes team (https://scharr.dept.shef.ac.uk/outcomes/). Donna is a member of the Department of Health and Social Care Policy Research Unit in the Economic Methods of Evaluation of Health and Care Interventions, and has been involved in methods research for the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Decision Support Unit. Donna’s main research interests lie in measuring and valuing health, in particular valuing health across different populations and conditions, using different modes of administration (for example online or face-to-face), elicitation techniques and analyses. Donna has led recent projects in valuing health for children in the Netherlands and examining the performance of different child and adolescent health instruments.

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/people/staff/donna-rowen

Study team appointed for the new UK EQ-5D-5L valuation study

Dr Donna Rowen from ScHARR has been appointed as Principal investigator for the new UK EQ-5D-5L valuation study. The ScHARR team also includes Dr Clara Mukuria and Professor John Brazier. ScHARR will be collaborating with researchers from Bangor University, PHMR, Queens University Belfast, University of Leeds and University of Oxford. ScHARR is one of the collaborating sites conducting interviews.

The Principal Investigator, Donna Rowen, welcomed the appointments; “The UK research team working across 6 sites are looking forward to collaborating together to generate the much needed EQ-5D-5L value set for the UK.” 

The Steering Group has representatives from National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England, the EuroQol Research Foundation and academic experts. Independent Quality Control will be built in to every stage of the project. Data collection is expected to begin in early 2021.

For further details including the wider study team see:

https://euroqol.org/study-team-appointed-for-the-new-uk-eq-5d-5l-valuation-study/

The following is taken from the Euroqol website

NICEs current position on EQ-5D-5L: Prior to the completion and publication of the new valuation study, the interim position in England regarding the use of the EQ-5D-5L for companies, academic groups, and others preparing evidence submissions for NICE can be viewed on their website.

Steering Group: The Steering Group comprises representatives from the EuroQol Research Foundation, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and academic experts. The list of members can be found on the Blog.

About valuation studies: The new valuation study will provide a UK value set for the EQ-5D-5L. The value set will provide values (weights) for EQ-5D-5L health state descriptions according to the preferences of the UK general population. These are used in the calculation of quality adjusted life years (QALYs) that inform economic evaluations of healthcare interventions.

About EuroQol: The EuroQol Group is committed to supporting scientific endeavours that further the measurement and valuation of health and advance the use of measures like the EQ-5D-5L to benefit patients and inform decision makers

https://euroqol.org/

Tracey Young promoted to Chair of Health Economics and Outcome Measures

Professor Tracey Young

HEDS are pleased to announce that Tracey Young has been promoted to Chair of Health Economics and Outcome Measures. Professor Young is co-lead of the Health Economics theme for the Yorkshire and Humber NIHR ARC.

Professor Young Joined ScHARR in April 2004 and work as a health economist in HEDS. My work in ScHARR has included developing methodology for deriving condition-specific preference based measures from existing quality of life instruments. Professor Young is also involved in a number of economic evaluations alongside clinical trials.

Vacancy: Research Fellow in Health Economics

ScHARR, Regent Court

HEDS are currently advertising the following post with a closing date of Monday 6 January 2020.

Post title: Research Fellow in Health Economics
Job Ref No: UOS024700
Contract Type: Fixed term: 2 years
Working Pattern: Full-time Faculty: Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Department: School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR)
Salary: Grade 8: £41,526 to £49,553 per annum
Closing Date: 6th January 2020

Summary: An exciting opportunity has arisen to work in the prestigious Health Outcomes Team, led by Professor John Brazier, which is at the forefront of the development of preference-based measures and in the application of psychometric techniques in the development and testing of new measures.

The Outcomes Team is embedded in the Heath Economics and Decision Science (HEDS) section in the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at the University of Sheffield. Here you will have the opportunity to work on applied and methodological research projects relating to health utilities and well-being, submit proposals for further research funding, and disseminate your research findings widely in peer-reviewed publications and at prestigious conferences. You will be encouraged to contribute to Masters-level teaching and supervision. and you should have a Masters Degree or equivalent in a relevant subject, for example, health economics, economics or psychology, as well as a PhD in a relevant subject. 

You will be involved in the valuation and validation of a new preference-based measure that is a broad measure of quality of life for use in economic evaluations across health and social care. The new measure has been developed as part of the E-QALY project, a collaboration between researchers at the University of Sheffield and international colleagues, including policy makers from NICE, National Institute of Health and Care Excellence. More generally, you will be involved in: overseeing primary data-collection of preferences and health data; reviewing of literature; undertaking qualitative data collection including interviewing or conducting focus groups; managing data-collection in questionnaire surveys; undertaking psychometric analyses of preference-based (also known as utility) measures of health and other outcomes; undertaking statistical and regression analyses (e.g. econometric analysis) of preference data; contributing to postgraduate teaching and undertaking PhD supervision; and development of and participation in knowledge exchange projects. 

You should have a Masters Degree or equivalent in a relevant subject, and a PhD in a relevant subject area. You should have experience of designing and developing research and previous work experience in a relevant field.

7 scholarships on our Doctoral Training Programme in Public Health, Health Economics & Decision Science funded by the Wellcome Trust

https://wellcome.ac.uk/

Applications are now open for 7 scholarships on our Doctoral Training Programme in Public Health, Health Economics & Decision Science funded by the Wellcome Trust 

https://pheds-dtc.ac.uk/  

• The scheme is open to UK applicants and applicants from lower- and middle income countries on the OECD's ODA list. The scholarship covers home or international tuition fees, stipend and research costs. 
• Applicants need a 2.1 or above (or international equivalent), and either a masters degree or equivalent research experience. 
• One scholarship is earmarked for a UK applicant meeting a widening participation criteria. 
• Current applicants come from many disciplinary backgrounds including mathematics, statistics, economics, public health, psychology, sociology, social policy, health economics, international development, engineering, business studies, politics, medicine, physics, human geography

Closing date 1 January 2020, programme starts autumn 2020