Research Assistant in Paediatric Pain (fixed-term)

About the role

The Department of Psychology is seeking a skilled and highly motivated part-time (0.6FTE) Research Assistant to support a 3-year Wellbeing of Women funded project exploring the effect of period pain on the lives of adolescent girls and their school engagement.  

The project, led by Dr Abbie Jordan, aims to use a mixed-methods approach to understand barriers to school engagement during menstruation in adolescent girls (e.g., stigma, pain characteristics, parent/staff attitudes). This will then inform the development of brief pain management educational sessions for adolescents, parents/carers and school staff to increase support and school engagement for adolescent girls. 

There will be several stages to the project: 

1. Hosting interactive workshops at schools to understand period pain beliefs and myths
2. Interviews with adolescent girls, parent/carers and school staff to explore the impact of period pain on school engagement
3. Surveys to understand pain management knowledge, attitudes, school engagement, stigma, self-efficacy and pain interference
4. Synthesising the findings to develop educational sessions on period pain management, and evaluating their success.

The Research Assistant will work with a Post-doctoral Research Associate to support activities relating to the first three stages. This includes assisting with recruitment of schools and participants, scheduling and conducting interviews, and setting up surveys.

The post holder will join Bath’s thriving Centre for Pain Research and they will be encouraged and supported in pursuing career development opportunities. As a member of Research Staff at the University of Bath, you will be encouraged to take up a minimum of 10 days professional development pro rata per year.

We have one position available offered on a part time (21.9 hours per week; days flexible) fixed-term basis. 

The post is funded for 13 months. 

Due to the research involving adolescents, a DBS check will be required for this post. 

A driving licence and willingness to drive to schools is desirable though not required.

Informal enquiries about this role should be directed to Dr Abbie Jordan (pssalj@bath.ac.uk).

We welcome applications from candidates who have:

• A bachelor’s degree in psychology or related discipline
• Experience or interest in the field of health psychology and/or pain management
• Experience of mixed methods data collection methods, such as interviews and surveys.
• Strong communication and organisational skills.

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