The School of Medicine is looking for a part-time research assistant (0.4 fte). This opportunity has arisen in response to the recent award from the Scottish Medical Education Consortium to the Medical School, University of St Andrews in collaboration with the Medical Schools at the Universities of Aberdeen and Dundee. The funding relates to a project investigating the relationship between stress, burnout and lifestyle choices such as habitual diet and physical activity in medical students. This appointment will help the School achieve its objective by furthering it’s standing as a centre for excellent medical education research. The ideal candidate will be someone with a background in psychology or health care education. Also required is some experience with data collection such as interviewing and qualitative analysis methods. You will be able to demonstrate excellent communication, negotiation, organisation skills and the ability to work as part of a team. 

The post is available for 6 months, starting as soon as possible.  The hours of work will be 40% fte (14.5 hours per week) to be arranged with the School. 

Informal enquiries can be made to Dr Anita Laidlaw, email: ahl1@st-andrews.ac.uk or Dr Jo Cecil, email: jc100@st-and.ac.uk.

Applications are particularly welcome from women who are under-represented in Science posts at the University’.  You can find out more about Equality & Diversity at https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/hr/edi/.     

The University of St Andrews is committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all, which is further demonstrated through its working on the Gender and Race Equality Charters and being awarded the Athena SWAN award for women in science, HR Excellence in Research Award and the LGBT Charter;  http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/hr/edi/diversityawards/.

Please quote ref:  ML1632

Closing Date:  27 April 2015

Further Particulars:  ML1632AR FPs.doc

School of Medicine
Salary:  £25,513 per annum, pro rata
Start Date:  As soon as possible
Fixed Term:  6 months
Hours of work:  14.5 per week