Research Assistant

5 months ago

Cardiff, United Kingdom Cardiff University Full time

**Main Function**
To contribute to research within specialist area of sleep engineering, carrying out supporting work that helps lead to the publishing of high-quality research. To pursue excellence in research and to inspire others to do the same.
- **Main Duties and Responsibilities**
- To undertake research, e.g. by planning, preparing, setting up, conducting and recording the outcome of experiments.
- To use wearable devices to measure sleep and deliver TMR, to develop protocols for running experiments with these devices.
- To collect and analyse EEG and behavioural data and assist in training junior members of the team to help with these tasks.
- To undertake administrative tasks associated with the research project, including the planning and organisation of the project and the implementation of procedures required to ensure accurate and timely reporting.
- To review and synthesise existing research literature within the field.
- Actively participate within the research group, communicating and presenting research at meetings, through publications and other recognised avenues as appropriate, ensuring information is communicated to internal and external partners
- To contribute and support research publications and presentations as required
- To contribute and support research funding bids as required
- To analyse and communicate complex ideas, concepts and data using appropriate methods and packages
To resolve issues and support colleagues in devising procedures required to ensure accurate and timely reporting
- To generate research output and contribute to the development of independent and original ideas as appropriate
To provide support in research activities for undergraduate courses and research programmes and provide guidance to other members of staff within the research team
- To maintain and update area of specialist knowledge, researching and critically appraising relevant literature within the area.

**Other**
- To participate in School administration and activities to promote the School and its work to the wider University and the outside world
- To undergo personal and professional development that is appropriate to and which will enhance performance.
- To ensure that an understanding of the importance of confidentiality is applied when undertaking all duties
- To abide by the University policies on Health and Safety and Equality and Diversity
- Any other duties not included above, but consistent with the role.

**Person Specification**

**Essential Criteria**

**Qualifications and Education**
- MSc and/or Bachelors degree.

**Knowledge, Skills and Experience**
- Knowledge of research methods and techniques within some/all of the following specialist fields
- Sleep and Memory
- EEG analysis (ERPs and Time Frequency)
- Sleep scoring
- Proven ability to analyse complex information and summarise appropriately

**Communication and Team Working**
- Proven communication skills, including presentation to various audiences
- Excellent organisational and team-working skills

**Other**
- Proven ability to demonstrate creativity, innovation and teamworking within work.

**Desirable Criteria**
- Experience of:

- Programming in Python or Matlab
- Machine learning
- Analysis of sleep graphoelements (spindles and slow oscillations)
- Proven ability to work without close supervision
- Proven ability to adapt to the changing requirements of the Higher Education community.
- Interest in pursuing a PhD.

**Additional Information**
- **Cardiff School of Psychology**

We are recognised internationally for sustained excellence in research, impact and research-led teaching. We are a large School with over 50 academic staff, over 600 undergraduates and 150 postgraduate students. In the last assessment the School attained the highest rating of ‘excellent’ for its teaching from the HEFCW Teaching Quality Assessment Panel.
- Many individuals in the School are leading figures in their research areas. In the last Research Excellence Framework we entered as a unit of over 80 staff with our colleagues in Psychological medicine. We were placed 2nd in our topic area across the UK. We have state of the art laboratories and experimental expertise across the range of psychology, and are currently building one of the largest and best equipped imaging centres in Europe (see: sites.cubric.cardiff.ac.uk).
- Our collective aim is to understand the psychological and biological foundations of behaviour at both individual and group levels. The research undertaken in the School ranges from 'synapse to society', and includes normal behaviour in development and adulthood, the breakdown of cognition after stress, trauma and in neurological and/or genetic conditions, as well as key psychological issues of broad importance to society, such as prejudice, reproductive health and understanding risk. The School also contributes to cross-disciplinary University Research Institutes in Neuroscience and Mental Health, Sustainable Places, and

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