Research Fellow

Job Purpose

The responsibilities may include some but not all of the responsibilities outlined below.
• Develop research objectives and proposals for own or joint research, with assistance of a mentor if required
• Contribute to writing bids for research funding
• Analyse and interpret data
• Apply knowledge in a way which develops new intellectual understanding
• Disseminate research findings for publication, research seminars etc
• Supervise students on research related work and provide guidance to PhD students where appropriate to the discipline
• Contribute to developing new models, techniques and methods
• Undertake management/administration arising from research
• Contribute to Departmental/School research-related activities and research-related administration
• Contribute to enterprise, business development and/or public engagement activities of manifest benefit to the College and the University, often under supervision of a project leader
• Collect research data; this may be through a variety of research methods, such as scientific experimentation, literature reviews, and research interviews *
• Present research outputs, including drafting academic publications or parts thereof, for example at seminars and as posters *
• Provide guidance, as required, to support staff and any students who may be assisting with the research *
• Deal with problems that may affect the achievement of research objectives and deadlines*
* These indicative responsibilities may also be included in a research role at grade 6.

Person Specification

• First degree in a biological discipline.
• PhD in T-cell immunology
• Extensive experience of in vitro experimental models of thymus development and function eg fetal thymus organ culture, reaggregate thymus organ culture, embryo microdissection, isolation and sorting of thymic epithelial cells. Multicolour confocal microscopy analysis of thymus tissue.
• Extensive experience of in vivo experimental models of thymus development and function eg thymus kidney capsule transplantation, bone marrow chimaera construction, measuring thymus ouput via intrathymic injection, Rag2GFP analysis.
• Managing of animal breeding and colonies via ‘Armis’ platform.
• High level analytical capability.