Research Associate/Research Fellow

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Closing Date : 30/09/2017.Employment Type : Fixed Term.Duration : 1 October 2017 until 30 September 2018 in the first instance.Faculty / Organisational Unit : Biology, Medicine & Health.School/Directorate : School of Health Sciences.Division : Population Health, Health Services Research & Primary Care.Hours Per week : Full time.Salary : Grade 6 £31,604 to £38,833 or Grade 7 £39,992 to £41,212 per annum according to experience.Location : Oxford Road, Manchester.Job Reference : BM&H-10562.

This is an exciting opportunity to develop and implement the economic components of NIHR funded Programmes for Applied Research and Health Technology Assessments and contribute to the development of the Health Economics research portfolio and teaching at the University of Manchester.

This is a full time post and you will be based in the Manchester Centre for Health Economics at the University of Manchester, working under the supervision of Professor Linda Davies. The post is tenable on a fixed term basis for 12 months in the first instance.

Your core duties will involve contributing to the design and delivery of on-going research projects in the area of economic evaluation. This will entail developing and implementing the economic components of multidisciplinary research projects and programmes, analysing the results and preparing papers for publication in high quality peer reviewed journals. The projects will include the design and analysis of economic models and economic trial data, and preference elicitation and valuation surveys.

A postgraduate qualification (or equivalent experience) in economics or health economics is essential, as is specialist knowledge in the health economics/economic evaluation discipline.

The Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care is committed to promoting equality and diversity, including the Athena SWAN charter for promoting women’s careers in STEMM subjects (science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine) in higher education. Appointment will always be made on merit.

For further information, please visit http://www.mhs.manchester.ac.uk/about-us/athena/

Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.

Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Name: Professor Linda Davies

Email: [email protected]

General enquiries:

Email: [email protected]

Tel: 0161 275 4499

Technical support:

Email: [email protected]

Tel: 0161 850 2004

This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.

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