Research Fellow (Uganda)

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world's leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excellence in public and global health research, education and translation of knowledge into policy and practice.

The Research Fellow will support the delivery of epidemiological research on evaluating the impact of the Good School Toolkit (GST) Agile at scale with the Child Protection Research Group. The post will mainly relate to the grant funded by the Oak Foundation.

Responsibilities include liaising with partners, participation in consortium meetings, oversight of fieldwork, quantitative data preparation and analysis, writing for academic publication, and supporting partners to collect data.

The successful candidate will have a postgraduate degree, ideally a doctoral degree, in the field of public health, psychology, science or other related discipline. Proven experience in quantitative survey data collection, design or analysis, analytical skills in evidence synthesis, basic quantitative or qualitative analysis, and evidence of good organisational skills including effective time management are required.

The post is full-time, 35 hours per week, 1.0 FTE and fixed term until 31 August 2029. The post is funded by the Oak Foundation and is available from 01 October 2026. The post is based in Uganda.

Benefits include annual leave entitlement of 30 working days per year (pro rata for part time staff), discretionary Wellbeing Days, and membership of the Pension Scheme.