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Job details
Job reference
19/107625
Date posted
01/07/2019
Application closing date
31/07/2019
Salary
£27,831 per annum
Job category/type
Research
Attachments
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Research Assistant
Job description
The School of Biological Sciences is part of the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences. It is made up of three research disciplines, including Ecosystems Biology & Sustainability, Food Safety & Nutrition, and Microbes & Pathogen Biology. The Institute for Global Food Security is a designated Global Research Institute with the School
of Biological Sciences and is ranked No 1 in the UK for research intensity in Agriculture, Veterinary and Food Sciences (REF 2014).
The Institute aims to develop solutions to the complex problem of delivering safe, nutritious, sustainable and authentic food supplies to the world's population. IGFS encompasses a wide range of topics including, for example, crop and animal science, food production and engineering, waste management, climate change, nutrition, human health and human rights. The Institute takes a holistic approach to food security challenges using cutting-edge research activities right across the spectrum of food security research, to span the environment-farm-food-health-economics that redefines global food security research. In 2019 the Institute and School of Biological Sciences (SoBS) have co-located in a purpose built GBP 39 million building integrating research, education, enterprise and knowledge exchange.
The Institute has flourished since establishment as a GRI in 2014 and now has 76 Principal Investigators and associated research fellows and postgraduate research students. IGFS hosted by SoBS has fuelled interdisciplinary research and impact across Schools and the opportunity to continue to build both internally across Schools and externally with major globally leading research institutions is large. The Institute also has a large industry engagement arm built around our academic base and today consists of around 90 companies.
We are recruiting for a Research Assistant who will be an active member of the European multi-partner research project OLEUM and the team assisting in the successful completion of the research and administrative activities involved.
The successful Research Assistant will report into the Director of Strategic Alliances and undertake research and administration-related activities under supervision within the OLEUM Horizon 2020 research project as a member of the QUB research team with consists of the grand holder and PI and the CI. Responsibilities will include helping co-ordinate interlaboratory method performance studies and setting up and managing the OLEUM Network, a laboratory and stakeholder community for olive oil research. This will include recruiting of individuals and companies to the OLEUM Network, maintaining the network and its several groups and developing new content from the research work carried out in the OLEUM project.
This post is available until 31 August 2020.
Our five core values (Integrity, Connected, Ambition, Respect, Excellence) have been developed by staff and students. They express our shared understanding of what we believe, how we aim to behave and what we aspire to be as an international organisation.
Further information about the Director of Strategic Alliances can be found at
https://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/paul-brereton(f11fd0ab-3221-40de-a012-dc77ebe83421).html
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Note to EEA Applicants on Brexit
Job title
Research Assistant
Job reference
19/107625
Date posted
01/07/2019
Application closing date
31/07/2019
Salary
£27,831 per annum
Job category/type
Research
Attachments
Blank
Job description
The School of Biological Sciences is part of the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences. It is made up of three research disciplines, including Ecosystems Biology & Sustainability, Food Safety & Nutrition, and Microbes & Pathogen Biology. The Institute for Global Food Security is a designated Global Research Institute with the School
of Biological Sciences and is ranked No 1 in the UK for research intensity in Agriculture, Veterinary and Food Sciences (REF 2014).
The Institute aims to develop solutions to the complex problem of delivering safe, nutritious, sustainable and authentic food supplies to the world's population. IGFS encompasses a wide range of topics including, for example, crop and animal science, food production and engineering, waste management, climate change, nutrition, human health and human rights. The Institute takes a holistic approach to food security challenges using cutting-edge research activities right across the spectrum of food security research, to span the environment-farm-food-health-economics that redefines global food security research. In 2019 the Institute and School of Biological Sciences (SoBS) have co-located in a purpose built GBP 39 million building integrating research, education, enterprise and knowledge exchange.
The Institute has flourished since establishment as a GRI in 2014 and now has 76 Principal Investigators and associated research fellows and postgraduate research students. IGFS hosted by SoBS has fuelled interdisciplinary research and impact across Schools and the opportunity to continue to build both internally across Schools and externally with major globally leading research institutions is large. The Institute also has a large industry engagement arm built around our academic base and today consists of around 90 companies.
We are recruiting for a Research Assistant who will be an active member of the European multi-partner research project OLEUM and the team assisting in the successful completion of the research and administrative activities involved.
The successful Research Assistant will report into the Director of Strategic Alliances and undertake research and administration-related activities under supervision within the OLEUM Horizon 2020 research project as a member of the QUB research team with consists of the grand holder and PI and the CI. Responsibilities will include helping co-ordinate interlaboratory method performance studies and setting up and managing the OLEUM Network, a laboratory and stakeholder community for olive oil research. This will include recruiting of individuals and companies to the OLEUM Network, maintaining the network and its several groups and developing new content from the research work carried out in the OLEUM project.
This post is available until 31 August 2020.
Our five core values (Integrity, Connected, Ambition, Respect, Excellence) have been developed by staff and students. They express our shared understanding of what we believe, how we aim to behave and what we aspire to be as an international organisation.
Further information about the Director of Strategic Alliances can be found at
https://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/paul-brereton(f11fd0ab-3221-40de-a012-dc77ebe83421).html
.
Candidate Information
About the Institute
Information for International Applicants
Note to EEA Applicants on Brexit