Research Assistant – Impact and Engagement

About the Role
You will work with the Impact Team which plays an essential role in developing impact case studies for Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry's submission for the Research Excellence Framework. Working closely with other knowledge exchange teams to provide joined-up and expert support to enable impact of all types from across the university. The Team is responsible for:

• Building a culture of research impact across Queen Mary, through training, networking and capacity building.
• Providing specialist support to develop, capture, evidence and evaluate the impact of Queen Mary’s research.
• Managing systems and processes for analysis and capture of impact activity and evidence.
• Administering the Queen Mary Impact Fund, including our Impact Acceleration Account allocations.
• Supporting preparations for the Research Excellence Framework (REF), by maximising the quality of impact related materials within Queen Mary’s submission.

The Impact Team is part of the Research Services Directorate. The post is primarily based at Queen Mary Dept W near Whitechapel and will also involve meetings in Whitechapel and Charter House Square campuses and travel to occasional external meetings. The team works in a hybrid format, with a minimum of two days per week on campus.

About You
The role is suitable for a Research Assistant who is motivated and committed to learning skills and familiar with evidencing the impact of health research. The candidate should have a PhD or at least submitted their thesis and passed their viva. PhD or prior work supporting engagement with research that leads to impact would be an advantage.

Queen Mary University of London's Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry (FMD), it is one of QMUL's three main faculties and focuses on medical, dental, population health, and biomedical research and education. The faculty is committed to addressing health inequalities through research, education, and collaboration with the NHS and international partners.

About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.