Graduate Research Assistant
Location: Cornwall (Hybrid)
Salary: The starting salary will be from £33,482 on Grade E, depending on qualifications and experience.
Contractual hours: 36.5
Package: Generous holiday allowances, flexible working, pension scheme and relocation package (if applicable).
Job Description
This new full-time post is available from 1 April 2025 on a fixed term basis until 28th February 2026.
The Faculty wishes to recruit a Graduate Research Assistant to support the work of Professor Callum Roberts. This NERC funded post is available immediately. The successful applicant will compile archival and modern data sources to build detailed, spatially-resolved maps of historic and contemporary patterns and intensities of bottom trawling and dredging on the UK continental shelf. The work will be supervised by Professor Callum Roberts and forms part of the C-FLOOR project, Managing shelf sea carbon cycles and greenhouse gas release from physical disturbance of the seafloor (C-floor).
The post will include support research activity under the direction of the principal investigator as appropriate to the research project. Responsibilities may include:
1. Undertaking a broad range of basic research activity according to the nature of the research project. For example preparing, setting up, conducting and recording the outcome of experiments and field work, developing questionnaires and conducting surveys, using straightforward mathematical modelling, statistical techniques or scientific computation;
2. Maintaining databases, keeping accurate written and computerised records and ensuring data is stored securely and managed in accordance with the Data Protection Act;
3. Conducting literature and database searches as required;
4. Writing up the results of own research;
5. Contributing to the production of research reports and publications;
6. Presenting information on research progress and outcomes to bodies supervising research, e.g. steering groups, sponsors or members of research groups;
7. Assisting in the preparation of papers or reports for steering groups and other bodies;
8. Providing administrative support to the principal investigator and other project researchers as required;
9. Making use of standard research techniques and methods;
10. Analysing and interpreting the results of own research and generating original ideas based on outcomes;
11. Contributing to the planning of future research projects.
About You
The successful applicant will be able to present information on research progress and outcomes, communicate complex information, orally, in writing and electronically and prepare proposals and applications to external bodies.
Applicants will be educated to first degree level or possess an equivalent qualification/experience in a related field of study or equivalent experience and be able to demonstrate sufficient knowledge in the discipline and of research methods and techniques to work within established research programmes.
What We Can Offer You
1. Freedom (and the support) to pursue your intellectual interests and to work creatively across disciplines to produce internationally exciting research;
2. Support teams that understand the University wide research and teaching goals and partner with our academics accordingly;
3. An Innovation, Impact and Business directorate that works closely with our academics providing specialist support for external engagement and development;
4. Our Exeter Academic initiative supporting high performing academics to achieve their potential and develop their career;
5. A multitude of staff benefits including sector leading benefits around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (up to 26 weeks full pay), Paternity leave (up to 6 weeks full pay), and a Fertility Treatment Policy;
6. A beautiful campus set in the heart of stunning Cornwall.
Further Information
For further information please contact Callum Roberts, Professor of Marine Conservation, telephone (01326 253149) or email c.m.roberts@exeter.ac.uk.
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