UK Dementia Research Institute

The UK Dementia Research Institute is looking for a Personal Assistant to support the Scientific and Clinical Director at the UCL Institute for Liver & Digestive Health. This role includes managing diaries, scheduling meetings, and maintaining the Institute's website and social media. You will contribute to the daily operations and support academic staff in both research and teaching. We offer an extensive benefits package including 41 days of holiday, a pension scheme, and various employee assistance programs.

The UCL Institute for Liver & Digestive Health is a major academic centre within the clinical consortium UCL-Partners (UCLP). We are one of the most international clinical research hubs in the world. Our aim is to develop and implement an extensive network of clinical excellence in North-East London. We are based at the Royal Free campus in Rowland Hill Street, Hampstead. We are also a major education site in Liver and Digestive Medicine. We provide training for UCL medical students, specialist registrars, graduate students, and post doctor al fellows from all over the world. Most of our academic and clinical activities are currently based at the Royal Free Campus in Hampstead, one of the UK's largest Foundation NHS Trusts. About the role The position is based in the UCL Institute for Liver Digestive Health on the Royal Free Campus with the primary role to proactively support the day to day function of the Institute with the aim of delivering excellence in research and education. The post holder will provide high level administrative support to the Scientific and Clinical Director and to other senior Professorial staff within the Institute. He/She will support the academics with their day-to-day managerial and administrative duties, as relating to their research and teaching responsibilities at UCL. This post is permanent and it is not suitable for UCL sponsorship. About you The post holder will provide high level administrative support and will: Act as a Personal Assistant to the Scientific and Clinical Director, taking full responsibility for diary management, the scheduling of events and meetings, arranging itineraries and travel arrangements to UK and overseas conferences and meetings; Be responsible for maintaining the Institute's website, ensuring that the website has up-to-date information on staff, publications, grants, seminars and links to other departments, and establish and manage ILDH social media profiles; Maintain an awareness and observation of Fire and Health & Safety Regulations; Carry out any other duties as are within the scope, spirit and purpose of the job as requested by the line manager; Be educated to A level standard, or equivalent, or have acquired equivalent senior administrative experience; Have substantial experience of providing a high quality HR admin support. The extensive list of duties is enclosed within Job description and person specification attached to this advert. What we offer 41 days holiday (27 days annual leave, 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days) Additional 5 days' annual leave purchase scheme Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE) Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan Immigration loan Relocation scheme for certain posts On site nursery On site gym Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service Discounted medical insurance (visit to find out more) Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce, including people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people. Our department holds an Athena SWAN Silver award, in recognition of our commitment and demonstrable impact in advancing gender equality.

Senior Research Fellow - Digital Pathology & AI The UCL Cancer Institute is the hub for cancer research at University College London, one of the world's leading universities. The Institute draws together over 400 talented scientists who are working together to translate research discoveries into developing more effective therapies for cancer patients. This work is facilitated by extensive collaborations with our partner hospital UCLH, supported by the UCLH Biomedical Research Centre. As part of the CRUK City of London Centre, scientists at the Cancer Institute have access to cutting edge research facilities and clinical and non clinical graduate programmes. Within the Cancer Institute, researchers in the Department of Cancer Biology and Pathology seeks to identify and understand the molecular mechanisms and disease processes that underlie cancer development and treatment. Our research is facilitated by expertise in genomics, cell biology and digital medicine and by close collaborations between clinical and non clinical colleagues. Further Information about the department and the UCL Cancer Institute can be found on our website About the role The UCL Cancer Institute-one of the world's leading cancer research centres-is seeking an exceptional Senior Research Fellow to lead innovative work at the intersection of digital pathology, AI, and real world clinical data. This is a unique opportunity to develop an independent research programme focused on applying machine learning to digital pathology data and integrating it with electronic health records to drive new insights in cancer biology and patient care. Working within a highly collaborative environment-including partnership with UCL Hospital - you will drive cutting edge research that translates data into real clinical impact. Role highlights: Develop an independent research programme applying machine learning to pathology & EHR data Work with large scale clinical datasets to drive translational cancer research Collaborate with clinicians, data scientists, and NHS partners. Publish high impact research and secure external funding Applications should include a CV and a Cover Letter: In the Cover Letter please evidence the essential and desirable criteria in the Person Specification part of the Job Description. (By including a Cover Letter, you can leave blank the 'Why you have applied for this role' field in the application form, which is limited in the number of characters it will allow.) The position is for 18 months in the first instance, with the possibility of extension subject to funding. About you Prospective candidates must have: PhD + postdoctoral experience in digital pathology / AI / computational biology Expertise in digital pathology, machine learning and healthcare data Publication record and ready to lead your own independent research Excellent written and oral communication skills (fluent in spoken and written English) The highest ethical and professional standards in research and education. What we offer As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents we also offer some great benefits some of which are below: 41 Days holiday (including 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days) Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE) Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan On site gym Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

The UK Dementia Research Institute is seeking a Senior Research Fellow to lead innovative research in digital pathology and AI within its collaborative environment at UCL. This role offers an opportunity to develop an independent research programme that integrates machine learning with electronic health records, making a tangible impact on cancer biology and patient care. Applicants should hold a PhD and demonstrate a strong publication record, along with expertise in relevant fields. In addition to this exciting role, we offer great benefits including 41 days of holiday and a robust pension scheme.

UK Dementia Research Institute is looking for a Senior Data & Insight Analyst for a 12-month fixed-term contract. This role involves delivering high-quality data analysis to inform decision-making at UCL. The ideal candidate will develop dashboards using tools like Tableau and have strong analytical skills. Benefits include 41 days holiday, a Final Salary Pension Scheme, and enhanced parental pay.

Senior Data & Insight Analyst - 12 month FTC The Vice-Provost (Strategy) team leads the development and delivery of UCL's institutional strategy and strategic plans, providing insight and data to inform and align institutional decisions, monitor progress against agreed goals, and shape responses to external and internal challenges and opportunities. The team also provides expert strategic planning support to UCL faculties and manages UCL data governance. The Data & Insight team deliver high-quality data analysis and insight to support strategic, evidence-based decision-making at UCL. We are based within the Office of the Vice-Provost Strategy (OVPS), a wider team of 20 FTE who: Support UCL to implement the 2022-27 Strategic Plan and deliver its major projects (e.g. UCL East) co-ordinate and support departments through UCL's annual strategic planning cycles work to implement better data governance and management of our organisational data support institutional strategy/changes programmes About the role We are recruiting a Senior Data & Insight Analyst to join our team on a c.12 month maternity cover. This role is offered as a secondment (for internal staff) or as a fixed-term contract for external applicants. The five Senior Data & Insight Analysts are responsible for delivering the highest quality strategic data and insight to inform UCL decision-makers and stakeholders. They d evelop and refine our portfolio of data analytics products, which are mainly data visualisation dashboards for UCL's Tableau server site, and machine learning products, data science models and data pipelines in our cloud data warehouse. With a strong focus on delivering insight for our senior colleagues, they work to solve problems and support evidence-based decision-making using data analysis, visualisation, modelling and forecasting. The senior analysts gain a deep understanding of and work with all UCL's major data domains. They continually refine our existing portfolio of products and lead on the development of others, in consultation with our customers and in collaboration with the wider Data & Insight strategy and product teams. About you You will choose one of two routes according to your skills, experience and chosen career path; either primarily as a dashboard and insight analyst, or primarily as a technical specialist focusing on data modelling and engineering in SQL and Python. You'll be user-focused and have great communication skills. You'll be a graduate-calibre data professional with experience of managing large, complex datasets and have d emonstrable experience developing dashboards with the use of leading visualisation technologies (e.g. Tableau, Power BI). You'll have experience managing complex projects in a large, decentralised organisation and you'll ideally have e xperience working with relational databases and in associated query languages, for example SQL or Python. You'll have h ighly developed analytical skills and techniques, including the development and interpretation of statistics and the ability to interpret complex issues and conclude in simple, engaging and visual ways. Desirable (but not essential): You'll ideally be proficient in a coding language such as Python or R, and have e xperience of data modelling and engineering in SQL. E xperience in developing statistical, machine learning, and AI models into production is also desirable. What we offer As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents we also offer some great benefits some of which are below: 41 Days holiday (including 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days) Hybrid Final Salary Pension Scheme Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan On-site gym Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service Discounted medical insurance Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women. You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here :

Information Services Division (ISD) is the primary provider of IT services to UCL. We support and enhance learning, teaching,researchand administrative processes by providing information- and technology-related services to over 50,000 staff and students of UCL and associated institutions. Our goal is to be the top IT services group in the HEsectorand we are growing our team's capabilityinAI,experience/UX, agile development, security, cloud, service management and partnering. We are modernising our technology foundations, digitising the processes of the university to transform experience for students and staff, and partnering across the university to drive differentiation in UCL education and research. The Solution Architecture Team ispart of a wider team of Architects including Enterprise, Platform,Data,IntegrationandAIArchitectureteams whoare responsible fordefiningand governingarchitecture, driving solution design,andmaintainingthe repositoryto include current and future states. This is a fantastic opportunity to join UCL's Information Services Division (ISD) asaSolution Architect to help deliver excellence whilst continually evolving and progressing at this globally recognised top 10 university. About the role We are seeking a Solution Architect with a proven ability to operate at the intersection of strategy, technology, and delivery, and who is motivated by shaping meaningful change within a complex and intellectually vibrant organisation. This is a high-impact role for an experienced architect or similar who wants to influence how UCL designs, builds, and evolves its digital services across programmes, platforms, and product areas. You will lead solution design in close collaboration with stakeholders, fellow architects, delivery teams, and external partners. Translating strategic priorities into pragmatic, resilient solutions, you will help shape architectural standards, patterns, and governance while remaining close to delivery. Acting as a trusted advisor to product owners, you will balance enterprise-level outcomes with hands on architectural depth to address complex challenges with broad institutional impact. About you What you'll bring: Proven experience working within large, complex organisations, with the ability to understand strategic drivers and translate them into practical, deliverable solution designs that meet real business and user needs The capability to shape end-to-end solution architectures, balancing strategic intent with delivery constraints to produce resilient, scalable, and maintainable outcomes Experience within multidisciplinary product teams, including product owners, business analysts, technical leads, software engineers, test engineers, user experience and accessibility practitioners, DevOps, security, operations, and external partners The ability to operate at both strategic and detailed levels, providing clear direction while engaging hands on with design decisions, trade-offs, and implementation approaches A pragmatic mindset, with strong analytical skills and the ability to navigate complexity, ambiguity, and competing priorities in a matrix environment Solid technical breadth across modern technology stacks, including cloud platforms, integration patterns, APIs, identity, and application architectures Experience translating architectural principles and standards into actionable guidance for delivery teams, supporting consistency without creating unnecessary friction Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly and build alignment among diverse stakeholders A collaborative approach and interest in contributing to architectural communities of practice, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement Experience or qualifications in TOGAF and/or SAFe (or equivalent frameworks) are advantageous, but not essential. What we offer 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave,8 bank holidays,and 6 closure days) Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE) Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan Relocation scheme for certain posts On-site gym Enhanced maternity,paternityand adoption pay Employeeassistanceprogramme:Staff Support Service Discounted medical insurance Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community torepresentthe diversity of the world's talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce. These include people from Black,Asianand ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women

About the role This post is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Health Data Scientist to contribute to the management of ECHILD, a data resource linking administrative data from health, education and children's social care for all children in England. The postholder will facilitate policy relevant research on health and education across the early lifecourse by supporting data users with data extractions, data documentation, and epidemiological and statistical methodology. The Data Scientist will act as a key point of contact, responding to queries and carrying out feasibility checks, signposting to resources and providing technical and governance support. The salary offered in this role is at either grade 7 (£45,103 - £52,586 per annum) or grade 8 (£54,931 - £59,571 per annum) and is funded until 31/03/2029 in the first instance. About you You will have an MSc or PhD in a relevant discipline (e.g. statistics, epidemiology, public health, health data science). You will have advanced quantitative and statistical software skills using standard software (e.g. Stata, R) and experience of analysing administrative datasets from health or education. Experience of working in child health would be an advantage. You will have excellent written and verbal communication skills. What we offer 41 days holiday (including 27 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays and 6 closure days) Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE) Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan On-site nursery On-site gym Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service Discounted medical insurance Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women. You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here :

The UK Dementia Research Institute is looking for a Solution Architect to enhance its digital services. This role will involve leading solution design, collaborating closely with various teams, and translating strategic priorities into resilient solutions. Successful candidates will have experience in large organisations and the ability to operate at both strategic and detailed levels. The position offers robust benefits such as 41 days holiday, a pension scheme, and an on-site gym.

UK Dementia Research Institute is inviting applications for a Senior Data Solution Architect to shape and govern enterprise-level data solutions. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in enterprise data architecture, strong expertise with Microsoft Fabric, and a proven ability to lead and influence architectural governance. The role involves collaborating with senior stakeholders, ensuring data platforms are aligned with strategic ambitions. Attractive benefits include 41 days holiday, a defined benefit pension scheme, and a commitment to equality and diversity.

Information Services Division (ISD) is the primary provider of IT services to UCL. We support and enhance learning, teaching, research and administrative processes by providing information and technology related services to over 50,000 staff and students of UCL and associated institutions. Our goal is to be the top IT services group in the HE sector, and we are growing our team's capability in AI, experience/UX, agile development, security, cloud, service management and partnering. We are modernising our technology foundations, digitising the processes of the university to transform experience for students and staff, and partnering across the university to drive differentiation in UCL education and research. Data Architecture within ISD enables UCL's data driven transformation. It delivers enterprise data architecture, integration standards, analytics platforms, and AI foundations supporting UCL's Data Strategy and Digital Strategic Plan. This is a fantastic opportunity to join UCL's Information Services Division (ISD) as a Senior Data Solution Architect, to help deliver excellence whilst continually evolving and progressing at this globally recognised top 10 university. About the role The Senior Data Solution Architect defines and governs enterprise level data solutions across UCL. The postholder shapes architectural patterns, platform capabilities, data models, Fabric based data products, and AI enabled services, ensuring alignment with UCL's enterprise data architecture blueprint and governance frameworks. The role provides strategic oversight, architectural assurance, and technical leadership, ensuring data platforms and solutions are scalable, secure, governed, and aligned to UCL's strategic ambitions. You will lead solution design in close collaboration with senior stakeholders, fellow architects, delivery teams, and external partners. Translating strategic priorities into pragmatic, resilient solutions, you will help shape architectural standards, patterns, and governance while remaining close to delivery. Acting as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, you will balance enterprise level outcomes with hands on architectural depth to address complex challenges with broad institutional impact. About you You are an experienced Data Solution Architect who combines deep technical expertise with the ability to lead, influence, and simplify complex decisions. You will have all or many of the following: Extensive experience in enterprise data architecture, modern data platforms, and domain driven or canonical data modelling. Strong hands on expertise with Microsoft Fabric, including Lake Houses, Pipelines, Dataflows Gen2, Semantic Models, and governance. A proven track record of designing and governing large scale data and integration solutions across analytics and operational systems. Deep understanding of data governance, including data quality, metadata management, stewardship, and architectural assurance. Experience designing API led and event driven integration architectures. Practical experience architecting AI enabled data solutions, with an understanding of responsible and ethical AI practices. The credibility and confidence to lead architectural governance, influence senior stakeholders, and guide institutional strategy. Excellent communication and leadership skills, with a commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion. Desirable, but not essential Experience with Azure data and AI services such as Azure OpenAI, Purview, Azure Data Explorer, or Databricks. Experience working in a large, complex organisation, ideally within the higher education sector. What we offer 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays, and 6 closure days) Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE) Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan Relocation scheme for certain posts On site gym Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service Discounted medical insurance Visit to find out more. Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

The UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) is a globally leading multidisciplinary research institute of over 900 staff investigating the spectrum of neurodegenerative disorders caused by dementia, driving a step change in our understanding of neurodegeneration, and accelerating the discovery, development and delivery of interventions that will help diagnose, treat and ultimately prevent dementia. The UK DRI Core Informatics team serves as the core for the UK DRI national informatics programme. The team enhances data access, training, partnerships and technical capacity for researchers, fostering data sharing and boosting data science capabilities across the national institute. The team is currently based at UCL and interacts closely with the UK DRI at UCL centre staff. About the role We are excited to welcome an enthusiastic and experienced Software Engineer to our team. You will lead the ongoing development and maintenance of DataMap, a data driven research software platform designed to extract knowledge from biological datasets and incorporate it into a knowledge graph. You will work across backend services, frontend applications, graph data models, databases, observability and Kubernetes to ensure the platform remains robust, scalable, usable and aligned with research needs. The role requires someone who can operate as both a strong hands on engineer and a technical lead: translating requirements from UK DRI researchers into production quality software, improving architecture and engineering practices, and supporting long term sustainability of the platform. The post is available immediately and is funded by the UK DRI until 31 March 2028 in the first instance. This role is eligible for hybrid working with a minimum of 20% of time on site. About you You should have professional software engineering experience with a focus on data science or data intensive applications, in depth experience designing and developing APIs and backend services, and hands on experience in web UI development using React and TypeScript. Strong hands on experience with Python web frameworks, proven experience working with graph databases (especially Neo4j) and a working knowledge of cloud or cloud native systems (including AWS, Azure or Kubernetes) is essential. A good understanding of production software systems across development, deployment and maintenance lifecycles, and the ability to take ownership of a complex technical platform and drive work independently, are also needed for this role. This role meets the eligibility requirements for a skilled worker certificate of sponsorship or a global talent visa under UK Visas and Immigration legislation. Therefore, UCL welcomes applications from international applicants who require a visa. What we offer Starting salary offered in the range of £68,284 - £74,166 per annum including London Allowance. Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. 12% of Institute staff are actively working on EDI initiatives; for more information about what we're doing. We particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce; these include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds, disabled people, LGBTQI+ and gender diverse people in all roles, and women in Grade 9 and 10 roles.

The UK Dementia Research Institute is seeking an enthusiastic Software Engineer to lead the development of DataMap, a platform to extract knowledge from biological datasets. This hybrid role requires expertise in data-intensive applications, including API design, backend services using Python, and web UI development with React and TypeScript. The position offers a salary range of £68,284 to £74,166 per annum, with a commitment to diversity and inclusion.