Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Medical Statistics (EHR0064-0620)

About You 

An enthusiastic and friendly professional with excellent communication and interpersonal skills coupled with a commitment to providing an excellent student experience.  You will have expertise in medical statistics or epidemiology and a detailed knowledge of health statistics and a willingness to learn about psychometric methods in medical education assessment. 

About the Role

You will work across the Medical School and contribute to the development and analysis of assessment data. You will support teaching in medical and health professional programmes and support the analysis of quantitative health research in the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Medicine. You will be supported to develop a research profile.

Rewards/Benefits

We want you to feel happy when you come to work and proud when you go home.

From the moment you join us you have the opportunity to enhance your skills. We offer various routes for progression, a range of specialist development sessions and academic development opportunities along with an award winning and comprehensive staff health & wellbeing programme (HR Excellence Awards 2017). This means you will receive a full academic induction, be enrolled if appropriate on our PGCTHE, benefit from the Edge Hill University CPD scheme (UKPSF) and our annual University Learning and Teaching day all to support your professional development. 

This is just a taste of what we are able to offer you at Edge Hill University.

About Us

A great success story… an institution that improves and impresses year after year” – Times Higher Education. 

We are recognised for our outstanding achievements in student satisfaction, staff engagement, graduate employment and innovation as well as our strengthening research profile, investment and growth. The Times Higher ‘University of the Year’ award also celebrated our distinct role in “transforming lives” – reflecting a distinctive philosophy of creating opportunity from excellence.

The University has been ranked Best University Workplace (Times Higher Education 2015), judged Best UK Employer (European Business Awards 2016) and highly commended in Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards 2017 for Workplace of the Year.

Based on an award-winning campus in West Lancashire, Edge Hill University offers a stimulating and empowering environment for ambitious and high performing professionals.

For informal enquiries about this vacancy you may wish to contact:  Professor Paola Dey, Interim Head of Undergraduate Medical Education at Paola.Dey@edgehill.ac.uk 

Closing Date: 13 Jul 2020
Category: Academic