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Research Assistant

UCL - Department of Health and Social Care

The new National Institute for Health and Care Research Policy Research Unit in Reproductive Health (PRU) is a £3 million research investment over 3 years with the core purpose of producing high quality research evidence to inform policy regarding reproductive health in England. The PRU is a multi-partner collaboration involving the Universities of Oxford, Birmingham, Warwick, LSHTM and Hywel Dda University Health Board. It has a focus on addressing health inequalities and working in a co-produced way with people the work impacts. The PRU is hosted at the UCL EGA Institute for Women’s Health, whose mission is to bring together clinicians and researchers from a diverse range of disciplines to deliver excellence and innovation to make a real and sustainable difference to women's and babies’ health locally, nationally and worldwide.

About the role

The post holder will assist the PRU Co-Directors, project leads, and theme leads in supporting the conduct of policy-related research in reproductive health. They will work with support, and as part of a team, to develop and deliver research in line with the specified research programme and urgent requests from the Department of Health and Social Care. This role is an open-ended contract with an initial funding end date of 31 December 2026. This role does not meet the eligibility requirements for a Skilled Worker Visa certificate of sponsorship under UK Visas and Immigration legislation. Therefore, UCL will not be able to sponsor individuals who require the right to work in the UK. This appointment is subject to UCL Terms and Conditions of Service for Research and Professional Services Staff. Please visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/human-resources/conditions-service-researc ! h-teachin g-and-professional-services-staff for more information.

You must have an MSc (or equivalent) in a related topic and experience of qualitative and/or quantitative research in reproductive or women’s health. You should be able to work productively and collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams across organisations, have strong written and oral communication skills and a willingness to develop your research ability. A commitment to co-production and equality, diversity and inclusion is essential. You will be supported to develop a career and training plan and to take advantage of the UCL environment.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer great benefits: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefits Please find a job description at the bottom of this page. For queries about the role, please contact Dr Jenny Hall at If you need reasonable adjustments or a more accessible format to apply for this job online or any other queries, please contact: Christina Ahlfors;

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce, so applications from men to join a largely female research team are welcome. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people, see https://www.ucl.ac.uk/equality-diversity-inclusion/ IfWH holds an Athena SWAN Gold award, in recognition of our long-term commitment and 'beacon' status in advancing gender equality.

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Research Assistant in Protein Science

Job Details

The Faculty of Life Sciences is an exciting and dynamic environment driving forward ambitious and challenging plans for future development. We are committed to enhancing research and teaching in relation to major global challenges, including climate change, sustainability, technological change and the data revolution and inequality. Ranked No. 1 in London and No. 8 in the world (QS World University Rankings 2021). The Faculty offers an outstanding and diverse portfolio of Undergraduate and Postgraduate programmes in biological and biomedical sciences, pharmacy, pharmacological and pharmaceutical sciences, neuroscience and machine learning. The Faculty is made up of five academic Divisions; the School of Pharmacy, Biosciences, the Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neurocircuits and Behaviour and the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit. In addition, it is home to a specialist teaching facility; the Cruciform Teaching Facilities Unit. Some of the constituent parts of the Faculty have long and distinguished histories that can be traced back to the early 19th century when UCL was founded and we are proud to have nine Nobel Laureates associated with Life Sciences. UCL School of Pharmacy is one of the world's leading centres of excellence for pharmaceutical science, education and professional engagement. The Division has a well-established track record in high quality research across a broad range of drug discovery, pharmacy and patient safety related areas as well as in the development of spinout companies bringing new therapeutic strategies to the patient.

About the role

This Research Assistant vacancy is one of two new posts supporting a new protein science initiative in the Faculty of Life Sciences at UCL, in collaboration with the Structural Genomics Consortium. The second post is a Senior Scientist in Protein Science, Grade 8, for details please see job reference B02-06340.

The roles are in support of a collaboration between UCL and the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) that aims to kickstart a major research initiative in the area of machine learning applied to the discovery of new small molecule binders of under-studied proteins. The proteins generated, relevant to UCL projects, will be used in the benchmarking of machine learning algorithms through a comparison of predicted and measured binding, in order to improve our ability to predict novel protein binders de novo . This is an initiative run in partnership with other SGC sites ( e.g. , Toronto, Chapel Hill), the SGC's extended pharma network and researchers in artificial intelligence. In alignment with the open research ethos of Professor Todd's laboratory and the SGC, all data and ideas will be freely shared with the community.

The Research Assistant will provide technical support to staff in the School of Pharmacy in the production and purification of diverse protein samples.

The post is available until 31 March 2025 in the first instance.

We are seeking staff with extensive experience in the preparation and purification of samples of human proteins, using various expression systems (e.g., bacteria, mammalian and insect cell systems), purification techniques (e.g., IMAC, IEX, GF using ÄKTA systems) and characterisation methods (e.g., mass spectrometry, SPR, thermal stability, etc.). The ability to work quickly as part of a multi-disciplinary team is essential.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

41 Days holiday (including 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)

Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)

Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan

On-Site nursery

On-site gym

Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay

Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service

Discounted medical insurance

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/equality-diversity-inclusion/

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