Research Assistant Edinburgh, Scotland
Job description
UE06 £31,396- £36,024 Pro Rata [£17.20 - £19.74 per hour]
College of Science and Engineering, School of Biological Sciences
Guaranteed Hours contract
240 hours over 12 months
We are looking for a Research Assistant on a part time basis to support a programme of national research on learning portfolios with biological science students. The project is researching the use of reflective portfolios to support undergraduate science students’ skills development and awareness. It is a collaboration with three universities in the UK (Schools of Biological Sciences at Edinburgh, Leicester, and Kingston London and Deanery of Biomedical Sciences (Edinburgh)). The project will explore staff and students’ engagement with reflection and reflective processes so to develop best practice and recommendations.
Hours worked will vary each week/month.
The Opportunity:
Your skills and attributes for success
- You would have an interest to develop or have experience in qualitative (interviews, questionnaires, and focus groups) and quantitative (questionnaires) research methods,
- You would have experience managing and analysing large data sets
- You will have good written and verbal communication so that you can contribute to research publications and reports.
- Proven ability to meet milestones according to project timelines.
- Responds constructively to feedback and proven ability to work independently.
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For informal enquiries please contact the hiring manager – Dr Alison Cullinane at [email protected] or the School of Biological Sciences Staffing / HR Team at [email protected] .
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. Click to access our staff benefits page (opens new browser tab) 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 dates will be confirmed for suitable applicants, but will likely be held in the final week in august/first week in September.
If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab) .
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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