Research Fellow Stepsii

2 weeks ago


Plymouth, United Kingdom Plymouth University Full time

Based in the Faculty of Health, the School of Health Professions has something for everyone interested in health and care-related professions and is committed to shaping students into the best health professionals they can be.

InterCity Place is the first-class new home for our healthcare teaching and research providing students with skills to meet the needs of 21st century careers. The School offers a unique interdisciplinary learning environment, where students from the largest breadth of healthcare disciplines in the South West can benefit from excellent skills and research laboratories, research-informed teaching, stimulating practice placements and teaching delivered by professionally registered academic staff.

The School is proud of the commitment to student voluntary work, staff-student partnership, strong professional values and our record of student achievement and student satisfaction. State-of-the-art facilities and equipment help students maximise their potential and develop their core skills, preparing them to embark on exciting and rewarding careers. The School holds an Athena SWAN Silver award demonstrating the University’s ongoing commitment to advancing gender equality and success for all.

This is an exciting chance to be part of a progressive and cutting-edge University in a beautiful location, where you can really make a difference.

The Brain Imaging Centre within the Faculty of Health, University of Plymouth is a new cutting edge facility for Neuroscience research. This post is based within the newly equipped Motor Control Laboratory that investigates the sensorimotor control of human movement in health and disease.

This post involves being part of a multi-centre NIHR funded trial of Functional electrical stimulation in people with Parkinson’s. You will be involved in training the blinded measurement assessors around the UK in the use of the objective measures that predict or assess the proposed mechanisms of action of the intervention. This includes measures of sensory discrimination in the leg, dynamic balance and walking and bradykinesia. You will be involved in the analysis of the time series data collected using programs written in MATLAB and entry into the clinical trials database. You will be working alongside a team of clinical reserachers across the country in particular with the Plymouth Clinical Trials Unit and Salisbury NHS trust based team including Professor Paul Taylor, the study chief investigator.

You will have experience in collecting research data from humans ideally in the area of biomechanics or motor control. You will be able to show evidence of excellent research data management and governance and skills in programming in MATLAB. You will be able to work independently, have good communication skills and be able to work as part of a distributed team.

This role will require an Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check.

Please demonstrate how you meet the essential criteria outlined in the knowledge, qualifications, training and experience elements of the job description in your supporting statement.

Interviews are likely to take place on Thursday 30th May 2024 and you will be notified if you have been shortlisted or not.

This is a part-time position working 7.4 hours per week (0.2 FTE) on a fixed-term basis for 37 months due to funding.

We offer a competitive salary package and a generous pension and holiday scheme. We also offer a range of other benefits, including ongoing development opportunities. A summary of our comprehensive benefits can be viewed here.

The Faculty of Health holds two Silver and two Bronze Athena Swan Awards, which recognises commitment to supporting gender equality within higher education.

The University of Plymouth has a strong interdisciplinary research ethos which is supported by our three strategic Research Institutes; the Marine Institute, the Sustainable Earth Institute, and the Plymouth Institute of Health and Care Research. As a member of our academic community, you’ll be expected to contribute to our recognised research strengths. Working holistically across the University, you will be challenged to innovate, collaborate and deliver impactful research contributions as part of a systems thinking approach to addressing today’s global challenges.

The University of Plymouth is a diverse, welcoming community where everyone makes a difference and is encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. To find out more about our inclusive community, initiatives such as Athena Swan and the Race Equality Charter and our range of benefits / support mechanisms such as flexible working, staff networks and enhanced maternity, paternity & adoption leave please visit our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion webpages

We particularly welcome applicants from under-represented groups such as BAME/BIPOC and LGBT+.


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