Senior Postdoctoral Researcher

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Post Date : 30-Jul-2025Close Date : 17-Aug-2025 Job Title:Senior Postdoctoral Researcher Reporting To:Professor Edward Gregg Location: School of Population Health, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences,Beaux Lane House, Dublin 2School (or department): Converge - Centre for Chronic Disease and Population Health Research, School of Population HealthContract type/duration:Specified purpose contract, up to 24 months or March 2028 Closing date for applications:17th of August
RCSI is a community of academic, research, clinical and professional staff working collaboratively to lead the world to better health. Here, you will thrive in an innovative and inclusive atmosphere and your personal development and wellbeing will be supported. We invite you to join us to help deliver on our exciting mission "To educate, nurture and discover for the benefit of human health". For each of the last six years, RCSI has been positioned in the Top 300 of universities worldwide in the Times Higher World University Rankings. We are proud that RCSI ranks fifth in the world for "Good Health and Well-being" in theTimes Higher Education #SDG #SDG Impact Rankings 2024. This reflects our commitment to supporting people of all ages to live healthy lives and our work to promote the concepts of well-being and positive health. Our values of Respect, Collaboration, Scholarship and Innovation continue to unite and direct our purpose. Innovating for a Healthier Future 2023-2027 is RCSI's new five-year strategic plan. Through it, RCSI will enhance human health by meeting the health workforce needs of society, creating the insights and inventions that drive health improvements, and working in partnership with patients and the public in support of better health and well-being for all. The strategy unites the RCSI community in supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals –with a particular focus on Goal 3, which targets good health and well-being. More details about RCSI can be found at ; in particular. RCSI is a community of academic, research, clinical and professional staff working collaboratively to lead the world to better health. Here, you will thrive in an innovative and inclusive atmosphere and your personal development and wellbeing will be supported. We invite you to join us to help deliver on our exciting mission "To educate, nurture and discover for the benefit of human health". We seek candidates whose experience to date has prepared them to contribute to our commitment to the "Race Equality Action Plan 2025-2029" at RCSI. Our students come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds. This makes our university stronger and ensures we hire the best talent. About Our ResearchRCSI recognises that excellence in research is critical to the quality of its educational activities, its credibility, and, overall, to its mission to enhance human health. RCSI's research strategy aims to build upon its strength in translational biomedical and clinical research to deliver transformational, high impact changes in health care. Targeting both Irish national and EU funding, along with increased collaboration with industry, is a major part of the RCSI research strategy. Forging increased collaboration between RCSI PIs and industry is of critical importance to achieving success in this area. RCSI is also committed to provide its researchers with the supports and developmental opportunities to enable them to continuously grow and support their overall career development. BackgroundThe RCSI School of Population Health is looking to transform the way that population-level data and research platforms are deployed in Ireland to make key decisions for prevention and reduction of chronic disease burden.To this end, we have established a new research centre Converge: Centre for Chronic Disease and Population Health Research which will attract, inspire and shape the careers of a new generation of leaders, scientists and practitioners engaged in the development of new integrated, population-level models, methodologies and interventions for complex, multimorbidity conditions.Converge serves as the coordinating hub for three integrated streams of Research Ireland funded research:
• An epidemiology and disease burden stream that will develop a novel data ecosystem and execute a series of epidemiologic studies to prioritise the current emerging, and future health priorities in chronic disease and morbidity in Ireland and globally;
• A population implementation and effectiveness stream will develop and use new population registries and integrated data sources to quantify the impact of care and prevention in the real world, taking both an Irish and global perspective;
• A health impact and economic modelling platform will develop novel disease progression models and health impact models to prioritise intervention and risk stratification options. About the post:Converge are now seeking to recruit a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher with excellent quantitate skills to join the Centre. The position is based in the School of Population Health, RCSI, Dublin 2, but remote working will be considered for some of the duties.
Job Responsibilities
• Conceptualise and design new studies and investigations of the risk factors, trends and effective interventions for chronic diseases
• Assemble, collect or seek data access approval for the assembly of data sets for epidemiologic studies and natural experiments for chronic diseases
• Analyse epidemiologic, health systems and implementation data to identify modifiable risk factors and effective interventions for prevention and control of chronic conditions
• Develop novel methods and approaches for analysing epidemiologic and intervention effectiveness data
• Work with the principal investigator, members of the research team, colleagues and other stakeholders to ensure project deliverables are achieved
• Lead, co-author and prepare papers for peer-reviewed publications, reports/policy briefs and presentations to stakeholders
• Disseminate results of the research at scientific meetings and through other channels
• Prepare research ethics applications
• Assist with funding applications that might be considered for related projects
• Supervision of doctoral/postgraduate students. Qualifications – (Essential):
• A PhD degree or equivalent in population health sciences, epidemiology, biostatistics, modelling or related discipline. Knowledge & Experience – (Essential):
• Demonstrate capacity for independent research, experience of research leadership
• Strong track record of peer-reviewed publications in journals of high-quality impact
• Excellent quantitative analysis skills in epidemiological/economic modelling, advanced methodologies, epidemiology or related area
• Ability to work independently and efficiently
• Excellent organisational, interpersonal, report writing and IT skills. Knowledge & Experience (Desirable):
• Content expertise in chronic disease care and prevention
• Experience of working in multi-disciplinary and international research teams
• Experience in stakeholder engagement
• Project and team leadership, coordination and management skills. We are all too aware that imposter syndrome and the confidence gap can sometimes stop fantastic candidates putting themselves forward, so please do submit an application — we'd love to hear from you.