Postdoctoral Research Associate (MARS research project) - INTERNAL ONLY

We are looking for postdoctoral researcher with strong project management skills, the ability to facilitate communication with adults with aphasia. In this crucial first year of the project, the post-holder will liaise with and provide support, as needed, to the project team members and collaborators,; providing administration support. They will have overall responsibility for project and data management; and contribute to the dissemination of findings from year 1.

City St George's, University of London is the University of business, practice and the professions and brings together the expertise and excellence of City, University of London and St George's, University of London into one institution.

The combined university is one of the largest suppliers of the health workforce in the capital, as well as one of the largest higher education destinations for London students.

Combining a breadth of disciplines across health, business, law, creativity, communications, science and technology, we are creating a 'health powerhouse' for students, researchers, the NHS and partners in uniting a world-leading specialist health university. We are now one of the UK's largest health educators, where staff and students have access to an expanded team of brilliant academic and professional services colleagues, combined resources and facilities and more interdisciplinary opportunities.

The merger creates opportunities to generate significant change in the world of healthcare including changes to treatment, population health monitoring, workforce development and leadership, policy, and advocacy.

This post is part of the MARS project. In this project we are working with a technology company to explore the use of machine analysis software clinically, guided by the discourse analysis protocol created for the LUNA project (https://blogs.city.ac.uk/luna). There is the potential for huge time efficiencies using software and the potential for more discourse goals to be identified and targeted clinically. MARS will also explore software use with speech diversity (accent and speech disorders concurrent with aphasia).

The purpose of the post is to provide support for the research team in the first year of this 3-year project. This will involve managing storage of existing data, and the collaboration between City St George's, Barts Health and the technology company. The postholder will also assist with ethics, plan and carrying out co-design/usability workshops; and contribute to annual report writing and dissemination of findings from the workshops. The post holder will receive training, support and mentoring as appropriate to the role.

City St George's offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

City St George's, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors.