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# Research Fellow - Administrative Data Research Centre NI

- **Company:** Queen's University Belfast
- **Location:** Belfast, UK
- **Salary:** £42,972.0 - £46,936.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Big Data, Stata
- **Published:** September 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.co.uk/job/gb15c44d8e4003f87ac05c7f7690dd47f3/eaa

## About the Role

First or second class primary degree in a subject area relevant to the post and with a significant quantitative component

 - Have or be about to obtain* a relevant PhD in cognate subjects.
 - Significant administrative data research experience and skills relevant to this project
 - Experience in handling, cleaning, and linking administrative data/routinely collected health data to prepare research-ready population-based datasets
 - Experience in advanced statistical techniques to analyse large datasets, e.g. multivariate statistical analyses / survival analysis
 - Recent, relevant experience of using statistical packages STATA or R to conduct reproducible research
 - Research activity related to the use of large, complex, datasets.
 - A demonstrable proficiency in academic paper writing
 - A demonstrable interest and track record of research in at least one of the following areas: vulnerable and underserved groups or reproductive and maternal health

## Description

This 48-month Research Fellow post is funded by the Administrative Data Research Centre Northern Ireland (ADRC NI) funded research programme, led by Dr Aideen Maguire (Director), which is part of Administrative Data Research UK (ADR UK), a partnership transforming the way researchers access the UK's wealth of public sector data, to enable better informed policy decisions that improve people's lives. ADRC NI is currently undertaking a large programme of work and is seeking an experienced post-doctoral research fellow to aid in the delivery of our research packages. The successful candidate will take the lead on projects related to ADRC NI's recently recommissioned programme which is due to run until 31 March 2031, with a specific focus on (a) assist the management of administrative data research in Northern Ireland's main Trusted Research Environments, and (b) explore new data sets and novel linkages to support investigation of patterns and relationships between social, structural and
health-related outcomes for vulnerable and underserved groups.
The post will be expected to deliver and/or contribute to research within in the Underserved Groups work package, with particular focus on Understanding Homelessness, and the Enhancing Health Data work package, with particular focus on social determinants and outcomes related to Reproductive and Maternal Health.
*Reasonable requests for part-time working may be considered.


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