Grade 7 (2 Posts) at University of Liverpool

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Grade 7 (2 Posts) at University of Liverpool

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[ad_1] How can we improve population diet and reduce obesity? We offer two exciting new opportunities for an early career candidate wi

Senior Research Fellow in Environmental Epidemiology at UCL
Research Associate (Philpott lab) – Oncogenic Transcriptional Regulation in the Paediatric Cancer Neuroblastoma at University of Cambridge
Research Assistant at Queen Mary University of London

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How can we improve population diet and reduce obesity? We offer two exciting new opportunities for an early career candidate with a quantitative research background in psychology, public health or nutrition intervention work. You will be based in the Department of Psychology. The position will involve:

1) Being the lead post-doctoral researcher on external funded projects examining real-world interventions to improve diet in people from differing socioeconomic backgrounds. Project focuses will be on how the cost of food affects behaviour, whether alcohol calorie labelling changes behaviour and new public health policies for the out of home food sector. Examples of recent related work:

https://ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12966-020-0922-2

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35912671/

2) Designing, executing, analyse and disseminating studies that test the effect population level policy interventions have on consumer behaviour in the real-world settings. Work will involve collaboration with other universities and outside of academia.

3) To lead dissemination exercises (e.g. conference presentations, general public, government and charities) for the research project. 

  • Career development time, mentoring and opportunities (e.g. grant writing mentoring) will be available.
  • Informal enquiries concerning any of the above can be made to Prof Eric Robinson (eric.robinson@liv.ac.uk).
  • The current posts are fixed term for 32 months at first instance.
  • There is flexibility with start date (between July-October 2023).

  Job Ref: 060266                                                                                               Closing Date: 30 June 2023

For full details and to apply online, please visit: https://recruit.liverpool.ac.uk

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