Research Assistant: Children's 24-Hour Movement Behaviours and Health Outcomes (Fixed Term) (EHA1784-0918)

An opportunity for an emerging researcher to progress their career

About You

You should have a good honours degree in children’s physical activity and health, or similar (higher degree is desirable), and have experience of conducting high quality physical activity and health research involving children, teachers, and parents in school settings. You will have experience of project management, be passionate about working with children and about physical activity promotion, and have excellent written and oral communication skills.

You will have experience of measuring physical activity using accelerometry and will have good IT, scientific, and statistical analysis skills. Experience of using qualitative research methods is desirable but is not essential if you are willing to learn and develop in this area. 

About the Role 

The project aims to use compositional data analysis to examine associations between 24-hour movement behaviours and behavioural, psychological, and cognitive health outcomes in children and adolescents. The project is a collaboration between the Waterloo Foundation, Edge Hill University, and the University of East Anglia. 

The role will involve leading the school-based phase of the project by coordinating the project and gathering data relating to children’s sleep, sedentary behaviours, physical activity, and various indicators of behavioural, psychological, and behavioural health. The role will also involve dissemination and impact work once data collection and analysis are complete.

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 a range of specialist development sessions or courses and an award winning staff health & wellbeing programme (HR Excellence Awards 2017). This means as well as opportunities to attend interactive sessions like ‘Presenting with impact’ or ‘Preparing for progression & success’, you are able to have a lunchtime stroll across our beautiful campus, book to get a trim from our onsite hairdresser, your car valeted, or get together with colleagues over free food and drink to watch the latest film on one of our Film Nights and so much more. 

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. 

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.

The Times Higher ‘University of the Year’ award celebrated our distinct role in “transforming lives” – reflecting a distinctive philosophy of creating opportunity from excellence.

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 Stuart Fairclough at faircls@edgehill.ac.uk

Closing Date: 26 Sep 2018
Category: Support