Research Assistant - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - Newcastle University

Newcastle University
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Salary:
£31,396 to £32,982 per annum

Newcastle University is a great place to work, with excellent benefits.

We have a generous holiday package; plus the opportunity to buy more, great pension schemes and a number of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.


Closing Date: 08 September 2023

The Role


Your role is to assist in research in the colour vision laboratory, particularly with a fixed-term project evaluating the impact of colour vision deficiencies on work performance.

You will assist in operational tasks including recruiting participants, scheduling and running visual psychophysics experiments, arranging site visits, and maintaining calibration of laboratory equipment.

You will also help develop novel measures of colour vision-dependent behaviour and carry out assessments for colour vision deficiencies.

You will also assist with coding in Matlab, data analysis using various statistical packages, report writing, and supervising undergraduate research students.

You will contribute to publications and conference presentations.

This post is fixed term until 31 July 2024.

Find out more about the Faculty of Medical Sciences here.

Find out more about our Research Institutes here.


As part of our commitment to career development for research colleagues, the University has developed 3 levels of research role profiles.

These profiles set out firstly the generic competences and responsibilities expected of role holders at each level and secondly the general qualifications and experiences needed for entry at a particular level.

Key Accountabilities

  • Responsible for management of experimental facilities in the colour vision laboratory, including colorimetric calibration equipment
  • Responsible for maintaining and communicating protocols for behavioural experiments for all shared experimental setups
  • Responsible for ensuring safe and secure storage of data from surveys and behavioural experiments
  • Responsible for recruiting participants for and scheduling laboratory experiments and/or assisting research students to do so
  • Responsible for scheduling site visits and assisting with all tasks involved on site
  • Contribute to all research tasks involved in specific research project proposal evaluating colour vision deficiencies in service occupations
  • Contribute to the writing up of research for reports to external stakeholders, publication and dissemination, either through seminar and conference presentations or through publications
  • Present research findings, either at conferences or through publications in reputable outlets appropriate to the discipline
  • Help supervise final year undergraduate research projects and provide support to postgraduate research students or Research Assistants
  • Work with and interact intellectually with other technical staff, research assistants, and academic members of the Institute
  • Interact professionally with external stakeholders
  • Keep abreast of new, relevant technologies and software, and contribute to communications with key personnel in supply and support companies
  • Help to maintain webbased software and data repositories for lab or public access where appropriate (e.g. github repositories)
The Person

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

  • Ability to work well as part of a team and rapidly acquire new skills
  • Ability to interact professionally and empathetically with participants in behavioural experiments
  • Proactive attitude to problemsolving
  • Experience of research with clear transferable skills
  • Specific expertise with spectrally tuneable multichannel LED lighting systems
  • Specific expertise with colour science and colorimetry
  • Specific expertise with visual psychophysics
  • Specific expertise with display device technology
  • Previous contribution to research projects involving assessments of colour vision in everyday behavioural tasks
  • Strong writing skills
Desirable

  • Matlab coding skills
  • Competence in a foreign language
Attributes and Behaviour

  • Keenness to discuss and debate alternative creative solutions to complex problems
  • Strong work ethic
  • Ability to work to deadlines, while staying calm
  • Willingness to help and educate others in your area of expertise
  • Active enjoyment of and contributions to diversity in the workplace
Desirable

  • Outside interests in colourrelated areas

Qualifications:


  • BSc Psychology (Firstclass Honours)
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