This Research Assistant position will support a Cancer Research UK project assessing the use of non-cigarette tobacco products (e.g., cigars, cigarillos, shisha, smokeless tobacco).
The post holder will play a key role in conducting a quantitative analysis of trends in youth use of non-cigarette tobacco products over time and in three different countries (England, Canada, and the US). We want to explore what proportion of youth are using non-cigarette tobacco products and whether this has increased over the past 8 years, as well as whether trends differ in England compared to Canada and the US.
This will be a desk-based role, analysing multi-country, multi-wave data that has already been collected as part of the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (ITC Project). The post holder will be expected to contribute to the write-up of findings as well as research publications and, where required, funder report(s).
You will support the Principal Investigator and the Department of Primary Care and Public Health. You will also collaborate with colleagues at University College London and the University of Waterloo (Canada). You may also collaborate with the funder (Cancer Research UK) and non-academic partners (e.g., Action on Smoking and Health).
About you
We are looking for someone who is ideally educated to degree level or with relevant working experience. You will need to have excellent quantitative data analysis skills and be proficient in the use of statistical software (e.g., Stata, R, or SPSS).
You will need to have some knowledge of applied health research, health psychology, or a related area, and ideally have specific experience of research in the field of public health and knowledge of tobacco control research.
Excellent IT skills and proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint) are essential. You will also be a good communicator, both in writing and orally, and able to work both independently as well as part of a team.
About our school
We are a diverse, collaborative research community with expertise in a wide variety of research areas, from laboratory research through to social science and clinical studies.
Our close integration collaborations with local NHS organizations allows our researchers to work directly with the local population, improving their health while developing research work that can be applied nationally and globally.
Here, at our School, our medical research has and continues to develop a strong reputation for making a real impact locally, nationally and internationally. Ultimately, our research aims to:
- improve medical diagnosis and treatment
- answer fundamental biomedical and clinical questions
- deliver more personalised healthcare to patients.
We are passionate about training and supporting our researchers at all levels, to deliver research that is relevant to our stakeholders, accelerate its recognition and foster adoption of our findings to catalyse new research impact.
Brighton and Sussex Medical School is proud to hold a Gold Athena Swan Award.
Why work here?
Our university is situated off the A27, next to the beautiful South Downs where you will enjoy everything that our 150-acre campus has to offer. We are accessible by public transport; Falmer train station is a five-minute walk to campus and several bus stops are located within campus. We also have dedicated cycling paths and encourage our staff to use these with our offering of a cycle to work scheme.
Sussex is a renowned, multi-accredited, research-led International University and this is only possible because of the people that work here. Whether you are a member of Faculty, part of a Professional Services team or a Student, it’s our people that make us great and we want you to be part of that.
Further key information
The University is committed to equality and valuing diversity, and applications are particularly welcomed from women and black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic posts in Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Mathematics (STEMM) at Sussex.
The University of Sussex values the diversity of its staff and students, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. The University requires that work undertaken for the University is performed in the UK.
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