Research Assistant/Associate in Human Nutrition

Company description:

We are a world class research-intensive university. We deliver teaching and learning of the highest quality. We play a leading role in economic, social and cultural development of the North East of England. Attracting and retaining high-calibre people is fundamental to our continued success.

Job description:

Salary:

Research Assistant: £32,546 to £34,132 per annum

Research Associate: £35,116 to £40,497 per annum

The Role

We are looking to employ a Research Assistant/Associate as part of a multi-centre project funded by Alzheimer's Research UK. The project is exploring whether following UK-specific healthy eating recommendations is associated with better brain health and lower dementia risk. It will involve conducting a series of epidemiological analyses in the UK Biobank cohort. You will work as part of a collegiate and ambitious research team focused on diet and dementia risk reduction. You will have opportunities to develop new skills, present at national/international conferences, and publish in high impact peer-reviewed journals. You will have previous experience conducting epidemiological analyses in UK Biobank or similar large-scale cohorts focused on diet or other lifestyle factors and disease risk.

This position is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to build research experience in nutritional epidemiology, especially those looking to pursuing a future career in academia.

The project…

The project will be conducted using data from the large-scale UK Biobank Cohort, a repository containing dietary, lifestyle, genotypic, phenotypic, neuroimaging and disease incidence data. You will carry out a series of analyses exploring associations between adherence to UK-specific healthy eating recommendations (Eatwell Guide), neuroimaging outcomes and dementia incidence. You will conduct data cleaning, derive healthy dietary pattern scores, handle complex data such as neuroimaging and genetics data, and explore diet-dementia associations via regression-based approaches, including Cox hazard regression. The findings from the project will provide important information around the suitability of current UK healthy eating recommendations for dementia risk reduction.

This is a full time, fixed term post until 30th November, 2027.

For informal enquiries contact: Dr. Oliver Shannon oliver.shannon@newcastle.ac.uk

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As part of our commitment to career development for research colleagues, the University has developed 3 levels of research role profiles. These profiles set out firstly the generic competences and responsibilities expected of role holders at each level and secondly the general qualifications and experiences needed for entry at a particular level.

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