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Senior Outreach Officer – Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
About Us
The Senior Outreach Officer will work as part of the Public Engagement Team in the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences at King’s College London which is based at St Thomas’ Hospital campus. Staff and PhD students focus on the science and engineering of medical imaging and aims to improve outcomes for patients with cancer, brain and heart conditions.
About the role
The Senior Outreach officer will support the team across a variety of projects but with a focus on both Radnet and the Centre for Doctoral Training.
Cancer Research UK has awarded funding to the CRUK City of London Radiation Research Centre of Excellence. As part of a larger CRUK network called RadNet, the centre features an ambitious research programme aimed to accelerate the development of advanced radiotherapy techniques and unlock the full potential of this mainstay treatment through world-first exploratory radiation biology and radiation oncology research.
The Centre is a world-class hub for cancer biotherapeutics. It brings together researchers from four central London centres: King’s College London, University College London, Barts / Queen Mary University of London and the Francis Crick Institute, two Academic Health Science Partnerships and >£1bn of academic and clinical infrastructure for the advancement of radiotherapy.
The School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary PhD programme via its Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Smart Medical Imaging, specifically designed to meet the challenges in healthcare and medical imaging. King’s College London and Imperial College London, two world leading research-focused universities, collaborate to create an interdisciplinary training approach specifically designed to provide a unique PhD experience.
This is a part time post (24.5 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract for 2 years.
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