Senior Research Fellow

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About Us

The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) offers an intellectually stimulating environment in which to work, where staff are dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and learning, in the service of society. Across our three schools, we provide high-quality teaching, research and innovation across psychiatry, psychology and neuroscience.

This post will vary depending on the applicant giving you the opportunity to work across our incredible world changing departments.

About the role

These fellowships are supported by The Karlsson Játiva Charitable Foundation (KJCF) through the KJCF Quest Fellowships in Brain Health and Multimorbidity .

The two fellowships, known as KJCF Quest Fellows, will focus on preventing, treating or managing co-occurring multiple long-term conditions, where at least one is neurological or neuropsychiatric. They are open to pre-clinical and clinical researchers. Fellowships will be awarded to two outstanding post-doctoral scientists establishing their independence.

The fellows will be based within the IoPPN and we welcome applicants with interests across the lifespan. One of the fellowships will focus specifically on children and young people and will be based within the King's Maudsley Partnership for Children and Young People, a partnership between King's College London and South London and Maudsley Hospital.

The fellowships will be open to researchers utilising a broad range of methods and we will be open to applications exploring how specific mental and brain health conditions may co-occur with physical conditions in addition to research looking at the overlaps between different domains of brain health itself. The focus will be on those conditions those that most significantly affect people's lives and where research leads to real clinical impact.

Each fellowship will include an attached PhD student, with the postholder responsible for leading the recruitment once in post.

This is a full time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered an a fixed term contract until 01/09/2031.

Research staff at King's are entitled to at least 10 days per year (pro-rata) for professional development. This entitlement, from the Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers , applies to Postdocs, Research Assistants, Research and Teaching Technicians, Teaching Fellows and AEP equivalent up to and including grade 7. Visit the Centre for Research Staff Development for more information.

About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. Clear articulation of a research program that brings impactful insights into the co-occurrence of brain/mental health conditions within one another or with physical conditions.
2. Proven track record of scientific outputs with high impact
3. Demonstrable expertise and mastery of the technological/methodological techniques that will be used
4. PhD in cognate discipline

Desirable criteria

1. Experience in supervision, support of junior trainees
2. Proven ability to communicate with a wide range of stakeholders
3. A focus on mental/brain health conditions that have an impact on functioning and abilities

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the page. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further Information

At King's, we believe that the diversity of our community and a culture that is welcoming, open, inclusive and collaborative, are great strengths of the university.

The Equality Act of 2010 protects the rights of our students and staff and provides a framework to fulfil our duties to eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation and in addition, to advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations between those who share a protected characteristic and those who do not. At times, this will include balancing rights and beliefs that can feel in tension.

We are committed to free speech and to academic freedom, believing that our foundational purpose as a university, is to create spaces where a wide range of ideas, including ideas that are controversial, can be discussed and debated, and where members of our community can express lawful views without fear of intimidation, harassment or discrimination.

When engaging in the robust exchange of ideas, we ask that our community is mindful of our Dignity at King's guidance.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the person specification section of the job description. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

We reserve the right to close adverts early due to the volume of applications we receive. While the closing date may change, all adverts will close at 23:59 to allow sufficient time for applications to be submitted on that day.

We encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment as once we have closed a vacancy you will be unable to submit your application.

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