Overview
Research Assistant – Real World Evidence – Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
About Us
The TOUR (Transforming cancer OUtcomes through Research) team at King’s College London brings together researchers, clinicians and other healthcare professionals to improve cancer outcomes through patient-centred research and the effective use of clinical and real-world data. The multidisciplinary team, led by Mieke Van Hemelrijck, works closely with colleagues across Guy’s Cancer and the wider cancer research community.
A major focus of our work is the Guy’s Cancer Real World Evidence (RWE) Programme, jointly led by Mieke Van Hemelrijck and Anne Rigg. The programme aims to strengthen real-world evidence and data science capability within Guy’s Cancer, enabling high-quality, patient-centred research that addresses important questions about cancer care and outcomes.
The RWE programme brings together researchers, clinicians and other collaborators around a growing portfolio of research projects and data initiatives. The successful applicant will join this collaborative environment and help ensure that projects, research applications, data requests and data-sharing activities are coordinated effectively across the programme.
TOUR is based within the Centre for Cancer Society and Public Health at King’s College London, providing a wider multidisciplinary research environment spanning cancer prevention, early diagnosis, treatment and care, patient experience, inequalities and cancer outcomes.
About The Role
This is an opportunity to join the TOUR team and support the coordination and delivery of the Guy’s Cancer Real World Evidence (RWE) Programme. The programme brings together researchers, clinicians, data specialists and other collaborators to enable high-quality research using real-world cancer data.
The post holder will play a central role in coordinating the RWE research portfolio, supporting projects from initial enquiry and research application through data access, approvals, delivery and reporting. You will help maintain oversight of multiple projects and data requests, coordinate meetings and actions, support research applications and data-sharing processes, and ensure effective communication between the different stakeholders involved.
You will work closely with academic and clinical colleagues, research and data teams, and internal and external collaborators. An important part of the role will be acting as a point of coordination for researchers wishing to work with the RWE programme, ensuring that requests are progressed efficiently and that project documentation, decisions, timelines and outstanding actions are appropriately tracked.
The role will also contribute to the management and development of RWE databases and research resources and to the wider operational organisation of the TOUR RWE programme.
This is a full time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract.
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