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August 31, 2025

**Job Description**
This role involves working on a UKRI-funded Mental Health Research Hub to improve care and outcomes for individuals with complex emotions, such as Borderline Personality Disorder. The Research Assistant will support the Research Fellow and Hub Director in delivering the research program, collaborating with partners including the Lived Experience Advisory Panel. Responsibilities include contributing to research ethics applications, delivering qualitative and quantitative work packages, engaging with diverse stakeholders, and supporting dissemination efforts.

**Skills & Abilities**
• Essential experience of using both qualitative and quantitative research methods
• Undertaking qualitative interviews
• Designing and administering online surveys using software such as RedCap
• Experience of undertaking research on sensitive topics and with vulnerable and seldom heard groups
• Collaborative work with people with lived experience of mental illness as research partners
• Experience of recruiting mental health service users and mental health professionals to research studies

**Qualifications**
Required Degree(s) in:
• Health services
• Related subject

**Experience**
Other:
• Experience of health or social care research in a related field
• Experience of working with people with mental health problems or other vulnerabilities
• May be required to obtain an ATAS Certificate prior to research being undertaken

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Experience
Other: • Experience of health or social care research in a related field • Experience of working with people with mental health problems or other vulnerabilities • May be required to obtain an ATAS Certificate prior to research being undertaken
Work Level
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Employment Type
Research Job
Salary
Benefits: Generous annual leave (25 days plus Bank Holidays & Closure Days), generous pension scheme (NHS pension subject to eligibility), Cycle to Work & Electric Car Scheme, Employee Assistance Programme, development opportunities, enhanced family leave, flexible working, retailer discounts, on-site nursery.
Details
Part-time / Temporary Duration: up to 24 months Remote Work: Hybrid
School / Department / Center / Lab
• Community and Primary Care Research Centre • Faculty of Health • Peninsula Medical School • UKRI Complex Emotions Hub
Supervisor(s)
Becky Hardwick Richard Byng
Supervisor Email
[email protected] [email protected]
University of Plymouth
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Industry
Education
Phone
+44 (0)1752 600600 +44 (0)1752 60**** Show
Location
Plymouth