Research Associate

To keep the confidentiality of the project and its outcome

To develop research objectives and proposals for the research project

To write up research work for reports

To keep the confidentiality of the project and its outcome.

To manage the research activities, with guidance from the line manager

To critically survey the up-to-date literature related to oral insulin formulations

To plan and organise for the effective use of laboratory resources

To manage the time and meet the deadlines

**Key Responsibilities**

**and Accountabilities**:
**Faculty Specific**:

- Performing research in the field of pharmaceutics
- Contributing to research excellence will be as a member of a research

team performing research at a comparable level to that take on by

lectures and will provide opportunity for originality and interpretation
- Working independently to manage the research projects
- Providing statistical and analytical explanation for the generated data
- Critically reviewing literature
- Contribute to writing the reports to the funding body
- Performing other practical duties as directed by the supervisor/line

manager

**Generic to all Research Associate roles**:

- Develop and implement a personal research plan and where appropriate

related reach-out plan.
- Conduct individual and collaborative research and assist with related reach-out

projects.
- Assist with the dissemination of research findings and reach-out activities

through publication, presentation or exhibition.
- Continually update knowledge and understanding in field or specialism.

into research activity.
- Assist in the development of student research skills._
- **Special Circumstances**:
University of Sunderland

**Role Profile**

Part 2

**Part 2A: Essential and Desirable Criteria**

**Essential**

**Qualifications and Professional Memberships**:

- Educate to PhD degree level in Pharmaceutics or equivalent.

The purpose of this post is to perform experimental analysis for insulin lyophilised

formulations intended to be taken orally and to analyse the obtained data

according to the current literature.

**Knowledge and Experience**:
The role holder must have research experience with sufficient depth of

formulation of liquid and solid dosage forms and of research techniques to

perform experimental work on insulin formulations. The role holder will assist

with reports’ writing for the funding body.

**Desirable**
**Qualifications and Professional Memberships**:
Member of General Pharmaceutical Council

**Knowledge and Experience**:
To have knowledge on large drug molecule formulations.

**Part 2B: Key Competencies**
**Competencies are**assessed at the**interview/selection**testing stage**

**Analysis & Research**:

- Gathers data rigorously and conducts robust analysis, questioning

assumptions and existing knowledge
- Develops hypotheses and concepts to explain data, events and

phenomena
- Reports findings to wider community and is able to withstand challenge by

relying on evidence gathered and processes used for analysis

**Communication**
**Oral Communication**:

- Summarises and interprets complex, conceptual and special matters to aid

others' understanding and aimed at their needs
- Uses appropriate styles and arguments to influence and negotiate

satisfactory outcomes
- Monitors understanding of others, develops approach and takes corrective

action if require**

**Written Communication**:

- Conveys information of a complex, conceptual and specialist nature using

a range of styles and media selected to meet the needs of others
- Presents complex information in formats appropriate to non-specialists

without comprising meaning
- Monitors the reactions of others and takes appropriate steps to remedy

any miscommunications

**Decision Making**Independent Decisions**:

- Considers wider impact of decisions, assesses possible outcomes and their

likelihood
- Uses judgement to make decisions with limited or ambiguous data and

takes account of multiple factors
- Distinguishes between the need to make a decision, when to defer and

when not to take a decision**
**Collaborative Decisions**:

- Helps others to explore options that initially appear to be inappropriate or

unfeasible and recognise when a decision is or is not needed
- Enables others to contribute to decisions
- Ensures that options are weighed, outcomes identified and chances of

success considered
- Challenges decisions, appropriately to ensure consideration and processes

are robust**
**Provision of Advice**:

- Anticipates and highlights issues that need to be taken into account
- Outlines possible impacting factors, assessing their degree of influence on

the choice of options
- Ensures previous learning is included

**Initiative & Problem Solving**:

- Analyses problems to identify their cause
- Takes action to prevent recurrence of problems
- Considers possible solutions to identify those which offer wider benefits
- Obtains evidence to support intuition

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