Research Assistant

About the Role

The Research Assistant will play a key role within the Social Health Hub, one of five multi-disciplinary research hubs within the UKRI Mental Health Platform (www.mentalhealthplatform.ac.uk) – The Social Health Hub focuses on generating new insights into how social determinants - the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age – affect the progression of severe mental illnesses and shape individual’s responses to their conditions over time.

You will work closely with the Principal Investigator, Jennifer Lau, and the Social Health Hub Programme Manager to support implementation of a longitudinal cohort study investigating how social factors influence personal outcomes for people living with severe mental illness. The study employs sophisticated methodologies to capture real-time data about people’s daily lives.

You will be involved in engagement with our Lived Experience Advisory Panel, recruitment of participants, and the collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data. They will be expected to prepare scientific publications and non-academic reports. The post-holder will work alongside a nation-wide multi-disciplinary team.

About You

Applicants should be qualified to at least MSc level or hold equivalent experience in data collection and analysis within a mental health research programme. The successful candidate should demonstrate strong potential to contribute to the planning, organisation, and implementation of research. This includes prior experience working within a research team, participant recruitment, and conducting quantitative data analysis. A proven ability to manage multiple priorities and work independently is essential. They should have a commitment to principles of co-production and broadening reach and accessibility of research findings.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project

The Centre for Psychiatry and Mental Health plays a key role in the development and delivery of undergraduate medical education (MBBS course) and other undergraduate courses at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).

Ranked joint 7th in the UK for the quality of its research in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework, we are one of the UK's leading research-intensive higher education institutions, delivering world class education and knowledge transfer across a wide range of subjects in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Medicine & Dentistry and Science & Engineering.

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.

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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