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Research Assistant

2 months ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**Grade UE06: £29,619 - £34,308 per annum, pro rata**

**CMVM, Edinburgh Medical School, Centre for Reproductive Health**

**Fixed-term: 13 months**

**Part-time: 21 hours per week**

A part-time research assistant is sought to support data collection and entry for a study investigating the long-term consequences of preterm birth on neurodevelopmental, cognitive and behavioural outcomes

**The Opportunity**:
We aim to collect longitudinal follow-up data from a group of preterm infants and healthy controls from birth through early childhood. The post-holder will collect and analyse neurodevelopmental and cognitive outcome data using standard and bespoke measures at three time-points between ages 9 months and 5 years, schedule appointments, and enter data.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA
- The successful applicant will have an Honours degree (upper second or better), or equivalent in Psychology or other related quantitative discipline.
- Knowledge and experience of using both Microsoft Word & Excel, and SPSS
- Interest in and knowledge of preterm birth, and brain development
- The ability to set up and run systematic cognitive testing within experimental settings and to undertake systematic standardised cognitive testing with children and adults.
- The ability to communicate effectively orally, in writing and electronically with study participants and their families and members of the research team.
- The ability to work sensitively with young people and their families, to develop an effective rapport with all volunteer participants being tested.
- Experience conducting research in Psychology or a related discipline.
- Experience working with young children, and/or people with disabilities and their families.
- Enthusiasm and conscientiousness for the work and the ability to have intellectual input to the project.
- The ability to liaise closely with other members of the research team.
- Ability to work in a team and to seek advice when needed from expert investigators.
- Ability to organise own work and allocation of time.
- Detail-focus when working with data.
- Willingness to work flexibly depending on the availability of volunteer participants.

DESIRABLE CRITERIA
- Knowledge of participatory research methods.
- Experience collecting and eye-tracking data with a Tobii remote eye-tracker or similar
- Experience on longitudinal research projects

Click **here **for a copy of the full job description.

**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.

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.

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.


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