Research Assistant MND Research Data Catalyst

University of Oxford, New Headington, Oxford

Research Assistant MND Research Data Catalyst

Salary Not Specified

University of Oxford, New Headington, Oxford

  • Full time
  • Temporary
  • Onsite working

Posted today, 5 Nov | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 63606aef5c624eb88831d3a6d878bca7

Full Job Description

You will manage your own research and data administrative activities, within guidelines provided by MND Research Data Catalyst Project Manager and other senior colleagues and will contribute to wider ontology-focused projects. You will also select, follow, and adapt specialist data ontology methodologies to suit a cross-cohort platform environment and identify suitable alternatives where information is restricted; conduct data cleaning and standardisation across MND datasets to a predefined standard (DPUK C-Surv data model) and harmonise select variables across MND datasets to a predefined standard (DPUK C-Surv data model) for data visualisation.

You will have a first degree and relevant data curation experience in a health-related subject and possess sufficient specialist knowledge in a health-related subject to assist in variable selection for data curation and ontology work. With excellent communication skills, including the ability to write code (Stata), present data output at conferences, and represent the research group at meetings. Along with experience of working with large population cohorts and using statistical packages for data curation work e.g., Stata, Python, R. Experience of contributing to research publications/presentations and working in a research team would be desirable.