Research Assistant Edinburgh, Scotland
Job description
UE06: £30,619.00 - £35,308.00 Per Annum
CMVM / Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems / Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and Roslin Institute
Fixed Term Contract: Full time - 35 Hours per Week
Fixed Term Contract until 31 August 2023
We seek to hire a Research Assistant to support a new programme of nationally representative diet surveys in Scotland, commissioned by Food Standards Scotland. The first survey will be in children and young people in 2023, with dietary data to be collected in approx. 1800 2-15y olds (for details see http://www.edin.ac/intake24 ). The appointee will play a lead role in the day-to-day project management and data quality checking and will contribute to data analysis and presentation of results.
The Opportunity:
Unhealthy diets, obesity and diet-related diseases such as diabetes are a cause for concern for the Scottish population. However, recent information on the diets of people living in Scotland, particularly vulnerable groups such as children, is limited.
The Research Assistant will be responsible for managing, cleaning and analysing Scottish dietary intake data collected using Intake24, a computer-based 24-hour diet recall software programme.
The Research Assistant will be part of the Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems (GAAFS) at the University of Edinburgh. GAAFS is an interdisciplinary hub of expertise to support the transformation of agri-food systems though agenda-setting, research, teaching and translation to policy and practice. The Research Assistant will work with Prof. Lindsay Jaacks, Personal Chair of Global Health and Nutrition in GAAFS, and Prof. Geraldine McNeill, a Visiting Professor of Global Nutrition and Health in GAAFS.
This is a full-time post (35 hours/week), for 4 months, starting 1 May 2023 and ending 31 August 2023.
Your skills and attributes for success:
- Master’s degree in epidemiology, human nutrition, public health or related field.
- Proficiency in Stata, R, or SAS.
- Experience in cleaning and analysing large-scale dietary intake data.
- Proven ability to meet milestones according to project timelines.
- Responds constructively to feedback.
- Proven ability to work independently.
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As a valued member of our team you can expect:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme , staff discounts, family friendly initiatives , flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
Interviews will be held early May.
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O n this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
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