Research Assistant Edinburgh, Scotland
Job description
UE06: £30,619.00 - £35,308.00 Per Annum
College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Fixed Term Contract until August 2025
Full Time - 35 Hours per Week
The Lothian Birth Cohorts group within the Department of Psychology of the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is seeking a Research Assistant on a full time, fixed term basis until August 2025.
The Opportunity:
We are looking for a Research Assistant to support the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 (LBC1936) study (further details can be found in the link here ) jointly funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and by Age UK (as part of The Disconnected Mind research programme).
The post holder will primarily provide administrative support including organising follow-up telephone calls and appointments for study participants, collation of scientific testing materials, conducting study assessments including cognitive testing of LBC1936 participants at approximately age 88 years, and other associated administrative and data entry duties.
Your skills and attributes for success:
- First degree in psychology, neuroscience, or a related subject.
- A high level of understanding of research planning and procedures.
- Proven experience of working within a clinical environment, to established protocols and procedures, where established scientific methods are translated to project/data processes.
- Demonstrable understanding of research planning and procedures for large scale, multidisciplinary studies, such as understanding complex decision making hierarchies and how to respond to decision making when dealing with various research sites and stakeholders in order to ensure smooth running of the project.
- Experience in administering cognitive tests in adherence with established research procedures.
- Experience with word processing and spreadsheet software.
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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.
We anticipate interviews will be held approx. in August 2023, and we aim to give successful candidates 2 weeks’ notice ahead of interviews.
Application information:
We ask you to include a current CV and cover letter with names of three referees who may be contacted at a later date (please note if you do not wish for anyone to be contacted until after an offer has been made).
We invite candidates to use their cover letter to highlight professional and personal experiences that maybe relevant to role. PPLS interview panels will take submitted documents into account when assessing applications in line with listed criteria, including acknowledging areas of potential impact such as caring responsibilities, family leave and health related matters.
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The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. They will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
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