Research Associate (Phenotyping)

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Analysis Affiliate (Phenotyping)
Division of Psychological Medication and Medical Neurosciences
Faculty of Medication
School of Biomedical and Life Sciences

We’re in search of a Analysis Affiliate to affix the world class Psychosis Analysis Group of the Cardiff College Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics. You may be funded by a 5-year MRC Programme grant entitled ‘Molecular Genetic Research of Schizophrenia: Understanding Remedy Resistance and Outcomes to Inform Precision Psychiatry’. The place presents entry to the world’s largest psychiatric genomic datasets, and gives the uncommon alternative to work each immediately and in collaboration with a number of worldwide leaders within the area.

You’ll work within the vibrant CNGG analysis atmosphere the place we are going to help your profession and expertise growth. You’ll oversee collation and curation of the phenotypic and consequence information from a big consortium with the help of an information assistant and create the scientific information useful resource that underpins the programme, together with defining outcomes throughout the scientific datasets. You’ll undertake information discount, multidimensional consequence analyses and clustering analyses at every challenge stage on the consortium datasets and will likely be accountable for phenotypic analyses bringing collectively outcomes and genetic information for prediction modelling.
On this function, you’ll: 

• Conduct analysis throughout the Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics Psychosis Analysis Group and contribute to the general analysis efficiency of the Faculty and College by the manufacturing of measurable outputs publishing in nationwide tutorial journals and conferences, and the supervision of postgraduate analysis college students. 
• Attend and or current at conferences/seminars at an area and nationwide degree as required. 
• Undertake administrative duties related to the analysis challenge, together with the planning and organisation of the challenge and the implementation of procedures required to make sure correct and well timed reporting 

 

We’d like to listen to from you if in case you have a longtime experience and confirmed portfolio of analysis and/or related industrial expertise throughout the following analysis fields: 

• Psychiatric signs and/or outcomes.
• Genomic information. 
• Statistical evaluation of enormous information units together with information discount, multidimensional analyses and clustering. 
• Database design and curation. 

Please contact James Walters ([email protected]) for an off-the-cuff, confidential dialogue concerning the function. 

This put up is full-time (35 hours per week), out there from 1st April 2024 and stuck time period till twentieth October 2028. This put up relies on the Hadyn Ellis Constructing, Cathays campus. 

Wage: £39,347- £44,263 every year (Grade 6).  Appointments to roles at Cardiff College are often made at backside of scale until in distinctive circumstances.

The vast majority of roles at Cardiff College are presently working below “blended working” preparations, with workers having the flexibleness to work partly from house and partly from the College campus relying on particular enterprise necessities. Discussions round these preparations can happen after the profitable candidate has been appointed.

Cardiff College presents many wonderful advantages, together with 45 days annual go away (incl financial institution holidays), native pension scheme, a cycle to work scheme and different journey initiatives, annual increments throughout the pay scale, and extra. It’s an thrilling and vibrant place to work, with many alternative challenges and is a proud Dwelling Wage supporter.

Date advert posted: Wednesday, 20 March 2024

Cut-off date: Wednesday, 10 April 2024

Please remember that Cardiff College reserves the appropriate to shut this emptiness early ought to ample functions be acquired.

Cardiff College is dedicated to supporting and selling equality and variety and to creating an inclusive working atmosphere. We imagine this may be achieved by means of attracting, growing, and retaining a various vary of workers from many alternative backgrounds. We due to this fact welcome candidates from all sections of the group no matter intercourse, ethnicity, incapacity, sexual orientation, trans identification, relationship standing, faith or perception, caring duties, or age.  In supporting our workers to attain a stability between their work and their private lives, we will even think about proposals for versatile working or job share preparations.

Cardiff College is a signatory to the San Francisco Declaration on Analysis Evaluation (DORA), which implies that in hiring and promotion selections we are going to consider candidates on the standard of their analysis, not publication metrics or the identification of the journal through which the analysis is printed. Extra info is obtainable at:  Accountable analysis evaluation – Analysis – Cardiff College

Purposes could also be submitted in Welsh, and an software submitted in Welsh is not going to be handled much less favourably than an software submitted in English.

Job Description

Job Goal
To conduct analysis throughout the Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics Psychosis Analysis Group and contribute to the general analysis efficiency of the Faculty and College, finishing up analysis resulting in the publishing of high-quality analysis. To pursue excellence in analysis and to encourage others to do the identical. 

Important Duties

Analysis  

• To conduct analysis throughout the Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics Psychosis Analysis Group and contribute to the general analysis efficiency of the Faculty and College by the manufacturing of measurable outputs together with bidding for funding, publishing in nationwide tutorial journals and conferences, and the recruitment and supervision of postgraduate analysis college students.   
• To develop analysis targets and proposals for personal or joint analysis together with analysis funding proposals.
• To attend and or current at conferences/seminars at an area and nationwide degree as required.
• To undertake administrative duties related to the analysis challenge, together with the planning and organisation of the challenge and the implementation of procedures required to make sure correct and well timed reporting.
• To arrange analysis ethics and analysis governance functions as acceptable.
• To evaluate and synthesise current analysis literature throughout the area.
• To take part in Faculty analysis actions.  
• To construct and create networks each internally and externally to the college, to affect selections,   discover future analysis necessities, and share analysis concepts for the advantage of analysis initiatives.

Different 

• To interact successfully with industrial, industrial and public sector organisations, skilled establishments, different tutorial establishments and many others., regionally and nationally  to lift consciousness of the Faculty’s profile, to domesticate strategically helpful alliances, and to pursue alternatives for collaboration throughout a spread of actions. These actions are anticipated to contribute to the Faculty and the enhancement of its regional and nationwide profile. 
• To endure private {and professional} growth that’s acceptable to and which can improve efficiency. 
• To take part in Faculty administration and actions to advertise the Faculty and its work to the broader College and the skin world 
• Another duties not included above, however according to the function. 

Individual Specification

Important Standards

{Qualifications} and Training
1.    Postgraduate diploma at PhD degree (or nearing completion / submission) in a associated topic space or related industrial expertise.
Information, Abilities and Expertise
2.    A longtime experience and confirmed portfolio of analysis and/or related industrial expertise throughout the following analysis fields: 

i.     Psychiatric signs and/or outcomes.

ii.    Genomic information.
iii.   Statistical evaluation of enormous information units together with information discount, multidimensional analyses and clustering.
iv.   Database design and curation. 

3.    Information of present standing of analysis in specialist area (as above).

4.    Confirmed skill to publish in worldwide journals, nationwide or worldwide conferences and different analysis outputs.

5.    Information and understanding of aggressive analysis funding to have the ability to develop functions to funding our bodies.

Communication and Staff Working 

6.    Confirmed skill in efficient and persuasive communication.

7.    Capacity to oversee the work of others to focus staff efforts and inspire people.

Different 

8.    Confirmed skill to reveal creativity, innovation and team-working inside work.

9.    Confirmed skill to work with out shut supervision.

Fascinating Standards 

1.    Expertise of mixed genomic and phenotypic analyses of psychiatric issues.
2.    Confirmed skill to adapt to the altering necessities of the Increased Training group.
3.    Expertise of working with worldwide consortia.
4.    Expertise of working with consequence information in psychiatric issues.
5.    Fluency in Welsh, written and oral

Further Data

IMPORTANT: Evidencing Standards
Candidates ought to proof that they meet ALL of the important standards in addition to, the place related, the fascinating standards.

As a part of the appliance course of, you’ll be requested to supply this proof through a supporting assertion. Please guarantee when submitting this doc / attaching it to you software profile you title it with the emptiness reference quantity, on this occasion, 18121BR

Job Class

Educational – Analysis