Veterinary Clinical Research Fellow

3 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**UE08 £44,414 - £52,841 Per Annum**

**College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine / Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies/ Roslin Institute**

**Fixed Term Contract, 3 years**

**Full time, 35 hours per week**

We are looking for an experienced post doctoral veterinary scientist with extensive experience working in Africa to design, manage and analyses clinical livestock research projects as part of the Centre for Livestock Genetics and Health (CTLGH).

**The Opportunity**:
This is an exciting opportunity for a quantitatively literate veterinarian to join the Epidemiology, Economics and Risk Assessment (EERA) group at the Roslin Institute (UK) and be part of an energetic and dynamic research multidisciplinary grouping of researchers working on a range of infectious disease problems in Europe and Africa. The post is funded by a BMGF award to the CTLGH to work on syndromic surveillance, abortion and calf mortality in Kenya in collaboration with colleagues in the SRUC and ILRI.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- Veterinary degree with some clinical experience
- Excellent quantitative skills including expert level in use of R software, statistical modelling, mathematical modelling and phylogenetics
- Experience working with livestock and animal keepers in Africa and speak Swahili
- Excellent people management skills of field technicians

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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 in or around the **26 **th **April 2023.**

If invited to interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our **right to work web pages **(opens new browser tab).

**About Us**

As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.

**About the Roslin Institute**

The Roslin Institute is a world-leading centre for animal bioscience research and has a distinctive niche within the UK National Institutes of Bioscience, supported strategically by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). The Institute is home to > 670 people including ~ 65 Group Leaders and Career Track Fellows, other research and support staff, students and visitors and ~90 staff from Scotland’s Rural College. The Institute has a vibrant programme of postgraduate research, with 150 PhD students registered at the time of writing. Research at the Institute is organised across eight research divisions (Translational Bioscience, Functional Genetics, Genome Biology, Quantitative Biology, Epidemiology Virology, Bacteriology, Immunology) and two Institute Strategic Programmes (BBSRC funded from 2023-2028) that integrate many disciplines (Genetics and Traits for Healthy Animals, Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases). Crosscutting themes in Clinical Sciences link research at the Institute to clinical activities in the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and support the research activities of clinical academic staff.

Roslin offers access to a wide range of Scientific Services including Proteomics and Metabolomics, Bio-imaging and Flow Cytometry, the National Avian Research Facility, Bioinformatics, the Aquaculture Genetics Research Facility and Large Animal Research and Imaging Facility. It is also home to Centre for Tropical Livestock Genetics and Health, primed by investment from the Gates Foundation and Department for International Development, aims to unlock the genetic potential of farmed animals by dissecting genotype-by-environment interactions to sustainably improve animal productivity in low
- and middle-income countries.

The Institute’s income exceeds £30M p.a., around 50% of which derives from the BBSRC via strategic and competitive funding.. This research is expedited by extensive interactions with industry, including via ongoing platform agreements with major animal breeding and pharmaceutical compan



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