Graduate Research Assistant

**Salary**

The starting salary will be from £33,482 up to £36,130 on Grade E depending on qualifications and experience.

**Contractual hours**

36.5

**Package**

Generous holiday allowances, flexible working, pension scheme and relocation package (if applicable).

**Job category/type**

Research

**Date posted**

22/05/2025

**Job reference**

Q00879

Faculty of Health & Life Sciences (HLS)

**The post**

It will be based in the Health Economics Groups within the Department of Health & Community Sciences which his part of HLS.

You will perform project-related research with a focus on economic and data-related analyses. You will work with multidisciplinary teams of information specialists, statisticians, health economists and clinical experts in producing responsive, high-quality outputs under strict deadlines. Knowledge of the principles of critical appraisal and systematic reviews are desirable, alongside a developing knowledge of the fundamentals of health economics.

The University of Exeter is one of nine institutional members of the prestigious National Institute for Health Research School for Primary Care and Public Health Research. Although based in the HLS, these schools are highly interdisciplinary collection of researchers from across the breadth of the University’s structure, drawing on experts from all three University of Exeter Faculties and all four campuses.

**Health Economics Group**

The Health Economics Group is based in the Department of Health & Community Sciences within HLS. The group, led by Professor Anne Spencer, conducts high quality policy-relevant research and provides high quality education in order to advance the use of health economics to improve population health. Our aim is to contribute to health and healthcare in the UK and internationally, by conducting research on economic aspects of health and disease, and research focused on informing decisions around the delivery of health care and the design and evaluation of health interventions and systems, as well as research on the factors that determine our health and wellbeing. Current activities cover a wide range of applied and methodological projects, across many disease areas. The Group works closely with the clinical trials unit/network and has close links with applied methodologists (e.g. statistics, qualitative research, operational research/modelling).

**About you**

**You will**:

- possess a relevant Undergraduate or Masters in a related field of economics, health economics or health-related quantitative discipline
- be able to demonstrate sufficient knowledge in the discipline and of research

methods and techniques to work within the Public Health Economics and Health Economics Groups research projects

**Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role.**

**What we can offer you**
- Freedom (and the support) to pursue your intellectual interests and to work creatively across disciplines to produce internationally exciting research
- Support teams that understand the University wide research and teaching goals and partner with our academics accordingly
- An Innovation, Impact and Business directorate that works closely with our academics providing specialist support for external engagement and development
- Our Exeter Academic initiative supporting high performing academics to achieve their potential and develop their career
- A multitude of staff benefits including sector leading benefits around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (up to 26 wks full pay), Paternity leave (up to 6 wks full pay), and a new Fertility Treatment Policy
- A beautiful campus set in the heart of stunning Devon

**The University of Exeter**

We are a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities and in the top 200 universities in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 and QS World University Ranking 2024). We combine world-class teaching with world-class research, achieving a Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework Award 2023, underpinned by Gold ratings for Student Experience and Student Outcomes.

Our world-leading research impact has grown more than any other Russell Group university in recent years, and we are home to some of the world’s most influential researchers, seeking to answer some of the most fundamental issues facing humankind today. More than 99 percent of our research is of international quality and 47 percent is world-leading (2021 Research Excellence Framework).

We encourage proactive engagement with industry, business and community partners to enhance the impact of research and education and improve the employability of our students. Read about our world leading research - Green Futures and how we are transforming education for a changing world. We are located in a beautiful part of the country and Exeter (a fast growing tech hub) is one of only a few UK cities to have been designated as a UNES