Post-graduate Research Assistant

Department: William Harvey Research Institute
Salary: £32,087 - £40,797 per annum (Grade 4)
Reference: QMUL29208
Location: Charterhouse Square
Date posted: 24 June 2022
Closing date: 8 July 2022

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About the Role

The research post will be for 9 months at the Centre for Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging of the William Harvey Research Institute. The post is intended to support clinical research outputs in the euCanSHare programme (www.eucanshare.eu ).

About You

Tasks involved in the job include:

• Using cardiovascular imaging data towards the improvement of cardiovascular disease prevention, diagnosis and risk stratification.
• Make judgements involving complex facts or situations, some of which require analysis, interpretation and comparison of cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging data.
• Retrieval, structuring, and pre-processing of cardiac imaging data from UK Biobank including quality control.
• Contribute to constructing a statistical analysis plan.
• To write up the findings for publication.
• To contribute to the overall scientific endeavour of the research group, and to take responsibility for areas of other current projects, as demand requires.

About the Institute/Project

The Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging Centre was established in 2010. This clinical-academic Centre is closely linked to the Department of Imaging at Barts Heart Centre, Barts Health NHS Trust and also collaborates closely with clinical academics from University College London. 

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 including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

The post is based at the 1 St Martin’s Le Grand building in London. It is a full time (35 hours per week), fixed term appointment for 9 months with an expected start date of 1 September 2022. The starting salary will be Grade 4 Research, in the range of £32,087 -£40,797 per annum inclusive of London Allowance.

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.

Informal enquiries should be addressed to Professor Steffen Petersen at[email protected] .

To apply for the role, please click the ‘apply’ button below.

The closing date for applications is 08 July 2022.

Interviews are expected to be held shortly thereafter.

Further details and apply