Research Assistant or Research Associate
University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Biostatistics Research Group
Department of Health Sciences
Vacancy terms:
Full-time open ended contract subject to fixed term funding.
Funding is available until 31 December 2021
Salary details:
Grade 6 £28,331 – £32,817 per annum
Grade 7 £34,804 – £40,322 per annum
Advert closes midnight on: 15 Nov 2019
We are looking for a Research Associate or Research Assistant to join the Biostatistics Research Group in the department of Health Sciences.
The role will involve carrying out research, contributing as a team member to the MRC-funded project on «Inferring relative treatment effects from combined randomised and observational data», based within the Biostatistics Research Group in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of Leicester and in collaboration with colleagues at the Universities of Bristol and York. As a Research Associate your research will be independent and as a Research Assistant your research will be supervised.
The post will involve the development and application of statistical methods as well as guidance on different ways in which observational evidence can be used in decision making in a Health Technology Assessment (HTA) context. This methodological development will be carried out within several work-packages using a series of real-world case studies to illustrate these.
Research Assistant:
you will be educated to MSc level in Biostatistics/Medical Statistics, Applied Statistics/Statistics, Epidemiology, Health Technology Assessment or a closely related area and have excellent communication skills.
You will have experience in one or more of:
· Biostatistics/Medical Statistics/Applied Statistics/Epidemiology/Health Technology Assessment/Operational Research
· analysis of RCT and observational patient level data
· simulation-based methods (including Markov Chain Monte Carlo)
· meta-analysis/evidence synthesis methods (including network meta-analysis)
Research Associate:
you will be educated to PhD level (or relevant MSc plus research experience) in Biostatistics/Medical Statistics, Applied Statistics/Statistics, Epidemiology, Health Technology Assessment, Health Economics or a closely related area. You will also have outstanding communication skills, and a proven ability to contribute to the development of presentations and peer reviewed publications.
You will have high-level expertise in one or more of:
· Biostatistics/Medical Statistics/Applied Statistics/Epidemiology/Health Technology Assessment/Operational Research/Health Economics
· analysis of RCT and observational patient level data
· simulation-based methods (including Markov Chain Monte Carlo)
· meta-analysis/evidence synthesis methods (including network meta-analysis)
Informal enquiries are welcome and should be made to one of the following:
Prof Keith R Abrams on keith.abrams@le.ac.uk, +44 (0)116 229 7266,
Dr Sylwia Bujkiewicz on sylwia.bujkiewicz@le.ac.uk, +44 (0)116 229 7258,
Prof Laura Gray on lg48@le.ac.uk, +44 (0)116 252 5491 or +44 (0)116 258 4043
Prof Nuala Sheehan on nas11@le.ac.uk, +44 (0)116 229 7271,
Prof Alex Sutton on ajs22@le.ac.uk, +44 (0)116 229 7268.
For more information and details how to apply visit:
https://jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancie