Research Assistant
2 weeks ago
**Salary**:
**Research Assistant**: £31,396 to £32,982 per annum
**Research Associate**: £33,966 to £36,024 per annum
Newcastle University is a great place to work, with excellent benefits. We have a generous holiday package; plus the opportunity to buy more, great pension schemes and a number of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.
**Closing Date**: 14 April 2024
The Role
This is an exciting opportunity for a methodologically-focussed researcher with strong computational/statistical skills to contribute to cutting-edge methods development in a clinically relevant research area with strong translational potential.
Identifying genes and their protein products which alter disease risk will point to potential new drug targets and allow opportunities for re-purposing of existing drugs. We will use measurements of genetic factors and potential intermediate processes such as gene expression, DNA methylation and protein levels, available through long-standing collaborations with clinical colleagues. A key goal of our research is to develop methods that integrate these different data types with one another, and with similar data from external sources.
This post is full time, fixed term until 31st March 2026.
You’ll be based in Newcastle Upon Tyne at the Centre for Life campus that has fantastic transport links, and we offer a hybrid and flexible working model.
Key Accountabilities
- Working under the general guidance of the Principal Investigator, contribute your own ideas, including enhancements to the technical or methodological aspects of their studies, thus providing substantial 'added value'
- Contribute to the writing up of their research for publication and dissemination, either through seminar and conference presentations or through publications
- Develop user-friendly software implementations of any novel analytical methods generated
- Contribute to the deposit of software and study data to appropriate repositories
- Contribute to research and teaching activities being carried out in the wider group, including providing informal advice to more junior researchers
- May be involved in the supervision, with guidance, of final year undergraduate research projects and in providing support to postgraduate research students or Research Assistants
- May contribute to events celebrating the public engagement of science/mathematics/statistics/computational biology
- Develop an awareness of University structures, policies and procedures and relevant issues in the higher education, research, social and political environment
The Person
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Hard working and enthusiastic
- High level of analytical and problem-solving capability
- Ability to work well as part of a team and rapidly acquire new skills
- Ability to communicate complex information with clarity
- Experience of carrying out research with clear transferable skills and some experience or awareness of the research environment
Desirable
- Familiarity with analysing multi-omics data
- Scripting/programming ability using a command line interface
- Some knowledge of one or more programming languages suitable for working in the area of statistics and data science (e.g. R, Python, Julia, C/C++)
- Presentations at conferences and/or high-quality publications
**Qualifications**:
- A PhD in an appropriate research area (e.g. statistics, statistical genetics, computational biology, genetic epidemiology) for Research Associate
Newcastle University is a global University where everyone is treated with dignity and respect. As a University of Sanctuary, we aim to provide a welcoming place of safety for all, offering opportunities to people fleeing violence and persecution.
At Newcastle University we hold a silver Athena Swan award in recognition of our good employment practices for the advancement of gender equality. We also hold a Race Equality Charter Bronze award in recognition of our work towards tackling race inequality in higher education REC. We are a Disability Confident employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role as part of the offer and interview scheme.
In addition, we are a member of the Euraxess initiative supporting researchers in Europe.
**Requisition ID**: 26723
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