Department: Wolfson Institute of Population Health
Salary: £40,223 per annum (Grade 4)
Reference: 998
Location: Mile End
Date posted: 1 February 2024
Closing date: 22 February 2024
Further details and apply
Overview
About the Role
The post holder will contribute to the activities of the Health and Lifestyle Research Unit. The unit specializes in health behaviours and provides smoking cessation and weight programme services for three local boroughs as well as innovative research into both smoking and weight gain. The post holder will be involved in supporting the research managers across all activities in the unit. This will include running and evaluation of smoking and weight clinics, conducting research follow ups and maintenance of research databases.
About You
The post holder will have a good first degree and with a masters in Health Psychology (or another relevant subject). You will be confident in using computer software to run research activities and have the ability to organise and prioritise your own workload. We are looking for someone to join our team who is hard working, a good communicator and happy to work as part of a team.
About the Institute
The Wolfson Institute of Population Health harnesses expertise across a wide range of population-based research and education activities and aims to be an internationally recognised centre of excellence in population health and preventive medicine. The Institute is organised into five research centres and the Centre for Public Health & Policy (CPHP) draws together groups focussing on women’s health, global public health, the national diet, and individual health and lifestyle.
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.
Our reformer heritage informs our conviction that great ideas can and should come from anywhere. It’s an approach that has brought results across the globe, from the communities of east London to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.
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
In return, we offer 30 days’ leave per annum, access to a pension scheme, a season ticket loan scheme and competitive salaries. We also offer enhanced family friendly leave, and an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus. You will also work with a friendly team, with personal development opportunities.
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.
Further details and apply
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