Postdoctoral Research Assistant

7 days ago

Dundee, United Kingdom University of Dundee Full time

Closing date

**Monday, 13 October 2025, 23:59**
- Salary

**£46,735 - £55,755 per annum**
**Grade 8**
- Contract type

**Fixed Term**
**4 Months**

Campus
- Off campus

School/Directorate
- School of Medicine

Unit/Department
- Neuroscience

**Your priorities**will**include**:

- Liaising with our clinical collaborators at UCLH, the GOSH radiography department, and study participants, to enable booking study appointments.
- Performing standardised QST and collect questionnaire (patient-reported outcome measures) and brain MRI data during 4-hr study sessions in young adults with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis.
- Data pre-processing, de-identification, and entry into the study database.
- Secure back-up of data and storage in relevant repositories, as required.
- Working alongside other members of the CAPE research group.
- Preparing progress reports for presentation at monthly CAPE meetings and other meetings, as required.

**Who we're looking**for**:

- BSc and PhD in neuroscience, psychology, or related field.
- Proven experience in performing standardised QST in clinical populations is required.
- Experience in handling, preprocessing, & analysing brain MRI data.
- Experience working with vulnerable clinical populations and within clinical settings.
- Publications as first or significant contributing author in internationally refereed journals.

The University of Dundee is a signatory of the Researcher Development Concordat and is committed to enhancing the research environment and culture. Engagement and support of activities which assist the researcher development agenda at the University is therefore essential.
- The diversity _of _our _staff _and students helps _to _make the University _of _Dundee a UK university _of _choice for undergraduate, postgraduate and distance learning. Family friendly policies, _staff _networks for BME, Disabled and LGBT _staff, _membership _of _Athena _**_SWAN, _**_the ECU Race Equality Charter and Stonewall _as _well a full range _of _disability services, create an enjoyable and inclusive place _to _work._

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