Research Associate in Evidence Synthesis (Ref MBP01395)

Biostatistics Research Group

Department Health Sciences

College of Medicine, Biological Sciences and Psychology

UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER, UK

SALARY & TERMS:

Grade 7 - £32, 277 to £37,394 per annum

Open Ended contract subject to fixed term funding. Funding is available from 1 October 2015 for up to 4 years 8 months

JOB SUMMARY:

The newly formed Complex Reviews Support Unit (CRSU) is funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The CRSU is a multi-centre collaboration between the University of Glasgow, University of Leicester and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The CRSU focuses on providing flexible, timely and appropriate response to specific requests, to support successful delivery of the complex systematic reviews that are funded and/or supported by NIHR.

In this position you will provide methodological advice and support primarily on diagnostic test accuracy reviews and associated methodology (including, but not limited to, use of individual participant data and/or network meta-analysis methods), and creating and delivering bespoke training courses.

Qualifications, Knowledge & Experience required:

Relevant Masters-level qualification (e.g. medical statistics, health economics, health services research) or prior relevant work experience (e.g. quantitative health);

PhD or equivalent experience; knowledge of principles and methods of systematic review, meta-analysis, and study designs used in health, public health or social care research; experience of delivering work to agreed deadlines and undertaking data analysis using statistical software packages (e.g. R, Stata).

Informal enquiries & further details:

Informal enquiries are very welcome and should be made to Prof Nicola Cooper on [log in to unmask] and Prof Alex Sutton on [log in to unmask]

FURTHER DETAILS about the post can be found at;

http://www.le.ac.uk/jobs/external/MBP01395_Job_Summary.pdf

and details of how to apply can be found at;

http://ig5.i-grasp.com/fe/tpl_UniversityOfLeicester01.asp?newms=jj&id=93409&aid=18079

Further details about the Biostatistics Research Group can be found at;

http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/health-sciences/research/biostats and

the Department of Health Sciences at;

http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/health-sciences

CLOSING DATE for this post is midnight on 21 September 2015

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Keith R Abrams, PhD
Professor of Medical Statistics & Head,

Biostatistics Research Group
Department of Health Sciences
University of Leicester
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LEICESTER LE1 7RH
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