Research Associate/Fellow (Fixed term)

Location: UK Other

The purpose of this role will be to perform research and disseminate findings on a Medical Research Council (MRC) funded project entitled “‘Optimising Post-operative Electrical Muscle Stimulation (PoEMS) to improve outcomes for surgical cancer patients’”. You will be expected to plan and conduct work using human physiology (e.g., imaging and electromyography) and wet-lab approaches and methodologies (including molecular biology and mass-spectrometry techniques) and will be responsible for associated research publications and other forms of dissemination.

You will join an established team, led by Prof Bethan Phillips, whose main areas of research interest include translational skeletal muscle physiology, exercise-for-health and surgical re/prehabilitation.

You will have the opportunity to use your initiative and creativity to identify areas for research, develop research methods and extend your research portfolio.

The job is offered on a fixed term basis for 9 months. Hours of work are full-time (36.25 hours per week).

Informal enquiries may be addressed to Prof Bethan Phillips, tel: 01332 724676 or email: beth.phillips@nottingham.ac.uk. Please note that applications sent directly to this email address will not be accepted.

It is a condition of this post that satisfactory enhanced disclosure is obtained from the 'Disclosure and Barring Service'.

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