Applications are invited for a Research Assistant to work with a team working with Professors Paul Aveyard and Susan Jebb on a research programme on diet and obesity.

The post is embedded in the thriving Health Behaviours team in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences (NDPCHS). The team work on interventions to prevent or treat ill-health by intervening on diet, obesity, and smoking. We have a strong track record of applied research that can benefit patients and lead to changes in the health system.

NDPCHS research is led by internationally renowned scientists, many of whom are practising GPs and primary care clinicians or public health physicians, together with academics from a range of other disciplines including behavioural and social sciences, and humanities. Our research covers the broad range of issues that you might expect to address in the community, including cardiovascular and metabolic disease, cancer, infectious diseases and childhood illnesses, obesity, poor diet and smoking. We focus on understanding and improving the experiences of patients, rigorously evaluating the effectiveness of treatments and diagnostics, utilising big data, developing digital health interventions and working internationally. We have methodological expertise in clinical trial design and implementation, clinical decision making and diagnostics, epidemiology, medical statistics, behavioural science, modelling, qualitative research and the wider application of social science theory and methods to address practical and theoretical challenges in health and care settings.

The successful applicant will work in project groups to support and develop research, primarily supporting projects led by others. Responsibilities will include routine quantitative and qualitative data collection, analysis using standards methods, and drafting papers for publication. The successful applicant will assist with engaging the public to inform research and disseminating the outcomes to academic audiences and other stakeholders such as policymakers and the public.

You will be educated to degree level or have equivalent experience in administration and have good computer literacy skills. You will have excellent communication skills, work well in a team and have excellent organisational ability.

You will be based in the Radcliffe Primary Care Building or Gibson Building of the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Radcliffe Primary Care Building, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG as your normal place of work but there may be the opportunity for occasional remote working.

The position is funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) until 30th April 2024 in the first instance.

For further information or to discuss the post please contact Jadine Scragg [email protected]

“Committed to equality and valuing diversity”

The closing date for applications is noon on Wednesday 10th May 2023