Research Fellow
| Posting date: | 01 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £49,909.00 to £61,825.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £49909.00 - £61825.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 July 2025 |
| Location: | Westminster Bridge, SE1 7EU |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9196-25-1184 |
Summary
An opportunity for a fixed term Research Fellow appointment is available in the Department of Paediatric Allergy. The post holder will join a dynamic clinical academic team of consultants with a strong reputation for developing innovative translational interventions, and track record for designing large, randomised control trials. The Childrens Allergy department was founded in 2006 and has grown rapidly since by putting translational pathways into clinical practice. The department works closely with Guy and St Thomas Trust (GSTT) community healthcare teams and across the South-East London Integrated Care System, involving Southwark, Lambeth, Lewisham, Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley boroughs. The Research Fellow will work on a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funded study. The Department has led the two largest food allergy prevention randomised clinical trials in the UK and continues to develop and enrol children on multiple allergy prevention and treatment trials. Children from black and Asian demographic backgrounds are more likely to develop food allergy during early life, and the current Research for Patient Benefit NIHR grant supports the co-design of a new community-based intervention to facilitate the dietary prevention of cows milk, egg and peanut allergy. Cross-cultural working is a strong theme in this project, and we are involving Community Research Link Workers to best elicit and interpret the views and experience of local families and develop an intervention that best supports the dietary progression of their children. The successful candidate will be jointly supervised by the study lead Dr Tom Marrs, Consultant Paediatrician, Professor Michael Ussher (Professor of Behavioural Medicine at both City St Georges, University of London and Stirling University) and Dr Kate Fryer (Clinical Research Fellow at the Deep End Research Alliance and Division of Population Health, University of Sheffield). Due to the nature of this work, we particularly welcome female applicants from ethnic minority backgrounds. Most importantly, you should be committed to the ethos of health equity.