Research Assistant - Deer Study

About the Role

Applications are invited for the role of Research Assistant in the Centre for Psychiatry and Mental Health. The successful candidate will support the delivery of the DEER Study, a longitudinal cohort study investigating how personal traits, social relationships and external resources co-act to influence resilience trajectories in children.

 About You

The successful candidate will have previous experience of mental health research with children in school setting. They will also have conducted analysis of quantitative longitudinal cohort data. The post requires ability to work independently and prioritize tasks. The study will involve close collaboration with primary schools and community-based organisations and will require ability to communicate complex information to a range of stakeholders. Willingness to travel across London to conduct data collection in schools and being eligible able to obtain an enhanced DBS check for working with children are essential for the post.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project

The Wolfson Institute of Population Health (WIPH) is an exciting and dynamic environment, home to more than 450 staff, 100 PhD students and 500 postgraduate taught students. It harnesses expertise across a wide range of population-based research and education activities and aims to be an internationally recognized centre of excellence in population health, primary care and preventive medicine.

Youth Resilience Unit is a part of the Centre for Psychiatry & Mental Health at the Wolfson Institute of Population Health. It has a focus on academic discipline, research into how young people use resources in community to overcome distress, the translation of research into public health strategies and their practical implementation – all dedicated to the reduction of disease and disability.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

This is a full time (35 hours per week), fixed term appointment until 1st March 2026, with an expected start date of 16th September 2024.

The starting salary will be Grade 3, Spinal point 25 (£36,572 per annum), inclusive of London Allowance.  

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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