Research Assistant in Public Health

Hours: Full time (36.5 hours per week) or part time hours considered.

Requests for flexible working options will be considered (subject to business need).

Contract Type: Fixed-term, 4 months at 100% FTE. 

Expected Interview date: TBC

Expected start date: TBC

About the role

The Research Assistant will support a project assessing the use of non-cigarette tobacco products (e.g., cigars, shisha). They will play a key role in conducting a quantitative analysis of trends in youth use of non-cigarette tobacco products over time and in different countries.

This will be a desk-based role, analysing multi-country, multi-wave data that has already been collected as part of the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (ITC Project). The post holder will be expected to contribute to the write-up of findings as well as research publications and, where required, funder report(s).

You will support the Principal Investigator and the Department of Primary Care and Public Health and collaborate with colleagues at University College London and the University of Waterloo (Canada).

Further information regarding the Department of Primary Care & Public Health is at Primary Care and Public Health - BSMS.

About you

• Ideally educated to degree level or with relevant working experience.
• Have excellent quantitative data analysis skills.
• Be proficient in the use of statistical software (e.g., Stata, R, or SPSS).
• Have some knowledge of applied health research, health psychology, or a related area
• Ideally have specific experience of research in the field of public health and knowledge of tobacco control research.
• Have excellent IT skills and proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint) are essential.
• Be a good communicator, both in writing and orally.
• Able to work both independently as well as part of a team.

About our School/Department

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Brighton and Sussex Medical School is proud to hold a Gold Athena Swan Award.

Why work here

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Further Key Information

Please contact Katie East (k.east@bsms.ac.uk) for informal enquiries.

For full details and how to apply please click the 'Apply' button, above.

The University is committed to equality and valuing diversity, and applications are particularly welcomed from women and black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic posts in Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Mathematics (STEMM) at Sussex.

The University of Sussex values the diversity of its staff and students, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

The University requires that work undertaken for the University is performed in the UK. 

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