Research Fellow (Molecular Epidemiolgy) Maternity Cover (PT)

This is an exciting opportunity to join an enthusiastic, productive, team that has won awards for research culture and impact. This post involves working with a multi-disciplinary, multi-centre team conducting molecular analyses associated with health, social, and environmental outcomes. The proposed project involves data analysis of rich datasets with multi-omic measures using a range of bioinformatic approaches. Genome-wide SNP-based data, epigenome-wide methylation data, and transcriptomic data is already available to support analyses as part of cross-country molecular analyses.

The post may involve liaising with international collaborators, supporting undergraduate and postgraduate students, collating existing data, coordinating meetings and workshops, bioinformatic analysis of data, integrating datasets, preparing regular summary reports, and taking the lead writing academic outputs and research dissemination. This is a part time (0.6 FTE), temporary role to cover a period of maternity leave.

About the person:

The successful candidate must have, and your application should clearly demonstrate that you meet the following essential criteria:

• Have or about to obtain* PhD in relevant discipline (*PhD to be submitted within 3 months of the closing date for the post).
• Substantial research experience and skills relevant to this project.
• Experience formally supervising undergraduate and / or postgraduate research students.
• Experience preparing paperwork for consideration by research ethics and / or data access committees.
• Experience working with multi-omic data, and / or statistics for molecular biology, and / or molecular bioinformatics or other fields relevant to the post.
• Demonstrated experience of research methods and techniques pertinent to molecular epidemiology using a range of methodologies.
• Experience of using data analysis packages relevant for molecular epidemiology.
• Experience of project management, delivering research outcomes, and proven ability to work in a multidisciplinary environment as part of a research team.

To be successful at shortlisting stage, please ensure you clearly evidence in your application how you meet the essential and, where applicable, desirable criteria listed in the Candidate Information on our website.

Fixed term contract posts are available for the stated period in the first instance but in particular circumstances may be renewed or made permanent subject to availability of funding.

What we offer:

Beyond a competitive salary, the University offers an attractive benefits package including a holiday entitlement of up to 8.4 weeks a year, pension schemes and development opportunities. We support staff wellbeing with flexible working options, work-life balance initiatives and support for physical and mental health. You can find more detail on all of this and more on our website.

Queen's University is committed to promoting equality of opportunity to all. We subscribe to Equality Charter Marks such as the Diversity Charter Mark NI and Athena Swan and have established staff networks such as iRise (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and International Staff Network) and PRISM (LGBTQ+) which help us progress equality.

For further information on our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, please visit our website.

If you are an international applicant and don't already hold a visa that permits you to take up the role you are applying for, please use the information provided on our website to self-assess whether the University is likely to be able to support a visa application.

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