Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Department: Wolfson Institute of Population Health
Salary: £35,775 per annum (Grade 5)
Reference: QMUL30272
Location: Whitechapel
Date posted: 12 September 2022
Closing date: 7 October 2022

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Overview

About the Role

The Post-doctoral Research Assistant (PDRA) will contribute to the study “Capturing loneliness across youth: Co-production of a new developmentally sensitive scale” taking place in the Youth Resilience Unit. They will be specifically involved in collecting and analysing quantitative and qualitative data using open science principles.

About You

The PDRA will work closely with another post-doctoral researcher at the University of Manchester and together, expected to prepare scientific publications and non-academic reports to disseminate results from the programme of research.

Applicants should be qualified and experienced in data collection and analysis in a mental health research programme and study focused on young people. The successful candidate should demonstrate a clear potential to facilitate and support the planning, organisation, and implementation of research, including experience with working in a research team, recruiting participants and conducting quantitative data analysis. They should also be familiar with open science principles.

About the Institute

The Youth Resilience Unit (YRU) is a part of the Centre for Psychiatry & Mental Health at the Wolfson Institute of Population Health. The YRU hosts several research programmes that focus on understanding factors that contribute towards poor mental health across development and on the development and evaluation of early interventions to foster resilience and well-being.

The Centre for Psychiatry and Mental Health plays a key role in the development and delivery of undergraduate medical education (MBBS course) and other undergraduate courses at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).

Ranked in the top 10 in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework, Queen Mary University of London, is one of the UK’s leading research-intensive higher education institutions, delivering world class education and knowledge transfer across a wide range of subjects in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Medicine & Dentistry and Science & Engineering.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities.

The post is based at the academic unit at Newham General Hospital in London. It is a full time (approximately 35 hours per week), fixed term appointment for three years, with an expected start date in November 2022 (or soon after). Depending on experience, the starting salary will be at Grade 4, £35,775 per annum (pro-rata) or Grade 5, £39,815 inclusive of London Allowance.

Informal enquiries should be addressed to Jennifer Lau ([email protected])

To apply for the role, please click the ‘apply’ button below.

The closing date for applications is 7th October 2022.

Interviews are expected to be held shortly thereafter.

Further details and apply