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The Research Assistant will support the delivery of the UK Centre for implementing evidence in adult social care - Improving Adult Social Care Together (IMPACT). They will work closely with Professor Louise McCabe, Deputy Head of Evidence and Evaluation. This is an opportunity to be part of an exciting and innovative Implementation Centre funded by the ESRC and the Health Foundation to improve social care outcomes by implementing evidence-based practice in the sector across all four UK nations.  The post holder’s core responsibilities will be with the review of evidence to support change; internal evaluation of the centre’s projects and support for national work in Scotland.  

IMPACT is an ‘Implementation Centre’, drawing on knowledge gained from different types of research, the lived experience of people using services and their carers, and the practice knowledge of social care staff. Its aims are to enable practical improvements on the ground, and make a crucial contribution to longer-term cultural change, by:

• Supporting more widespread use of evidencein adult social care, leading to better care practices, systems and outcomes for people who use services, their families and communities;
• Building capacity and skills in the adult social care workforce to work with evidence of different kinds to innovate, improve care and deliver better outcomes;
• Facilitating sustainable and productive relationships between the full range of adult social care stakeholders to co-create positive change/innovations and improve outcomes for people using adult social care and their families;
• Improving understanding of the factors which help and hinder the implementation of evidence in practice, and using this to overcome longstanding barriers to positive change.

More information about IMPACT can be found here: https://more.bham.ac.uk/impact/

IMPACT is led from the University of Birmingham, with multiple partners across the UK. Stirling is the lead Scottish HE partner and the role is located in Stirling alongside the Deputy Head of Evidence and Evaluation, Professor Louise McCabe. The role holder will report to Professor McCabe. Their role will also involve working with multiple staff across the UK who are delivering local projects and also with the central IMPACT team located at the University of Birmingham.

Work with Principal Investigator to curate genomic and neuroimaging datasets for the ENIGMA Addiction Consortium Study, a federally funded research study in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont. Provide technical and administrative assistance and perform data management functions in support of the grant goals. Respond to ENIGMA consortium members for imaging and protocol questions, organize recurring teleconferences and provide logistical support for the annual consortium and other similar scientific conferences. Assist with the creation of illustrations for publications and perform standard statistical analyses.

The Research Assistant will support UTHealth Houston's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. The role focuses on brain imaging, neural modulation, and biomarker research for finding the cause and better treatment for people with schizophrenia, depression, and other psychiatric conditions. You will learn and master some of the most cutting-edge clinical, human brain science, and behavioral research tools and methods in psychology and psychiatry. 

What we do here changes the world. UTHealth Houston is Texas’ resource for healthcare education, innovation, scientific discovery, and excellence in patient care. That’s where you come in.

Once you join us you won't want to leave. It’s because we reward our team for the excellent service they provide. Our total rewards package includes the benefits you’d expect from a top healthcare organization (benefits, insurance, etc.), plus:  

• 100% paid medical premiums for our full-time employees  
• Generous time off (holidays, preventative leave day, both vacation and sick time – all of which equates to around 37-38 days per year) 
• The longer you stay, the more vacation you’ll accrue! 
• Longevity Pay (Monthly payments after two years of service) 
• Build your future with our awesome retirement/pension plan! 

We take care of our employees! As a world-renowned institution, our employees’ wellbeing is important to us. We offer work/life services such as... 

• Free financial and legal counseling 
• Free mental health counseling services 
• Gym membership discounts and access to wellness programs 
• Other employee discounts including entertainment, car rentals, cell phones, etc. 
• Resources for child and elder care 
• Plus many more! 

Position Summary:

Under close direction of senior research staff, conducts activities to support research projects.

Position Key Accountabilities:

1. Under close supervision, conducts research activities according to research protocol. Research activities may include some or all of the following: patient recruiting and screening, traditional laboratory experiments and activities, informatics, field interviewer recruiting, screening and training and/or animal laboratories. 
2. May maintain clean laboratory equipment and/or work area to ensure a safe and efficient work environment.
3. Collects, evaluates, and interprets research data to provide needed information to principal investigators and other researchers. Updates notebooks, records, and databases as needed.
4. Stays abreast of new and updated protocols for research department.
5. Orders laboratory and/or other supplies as directed by senior research staff.
6. As needed, may coordinate the work of laboratory technicians and assistants to ensure efficient, timely and high quality results.
7. Complies with all governmental and University policies, rules, regulations, and codes.
8. Performs other duties as assigned.

Are you an Early Career Researcher keen to advance in the field of Psychology? University of Sussex offers the opportunity for a new ECR to join our community, or further develop their existing role here. We are offering support to talented researchers writing applications for major fellowships, who wish to establish a longer-term career at University of Sussex. We would offer mentorship to develop your bid and, if you are successful, an attractive start-up package including additional Sussex-funding for a PhD studentship, and a transparent tenure-track process to secure a permanent position at the end of the fellowship. Your successful bid would be for an externally-funded fellowship that lasts for at least 5 years and should ideally cover all of your fellowship salary. Your deadline to contact us is 15th May 2025 for applicants wishing to apply for an ERC Starting Grant (whose submission date is October 2025; start date 2026). 

Eligibility is open to researchers of any nationality with 2-7 years post-PhD experience (adjusted for career breaks and part-time status). Applicants should have a highly promising scientific track record and an excellent research proposal. The School is dedicated to diversity and inclusivity, having an Athena SWAN Silver Award, a Race Equity Action Plan, and an active Equality, Diversity, & Inclusion group. We especially encourage applications from those returning from career breaks, and from black and minority ethnic candidates, and women, trans, and non-binary candidates, who are under-represented in the School of Psychology.

Any candidate who successfully wins the externally-funded research Fellowship would be accorded Research Fellow status as a Principal Investigator within the School Psychology, and would be integrated within one (or more) of our six Subject Groups (Biological/ Clinical/ Cognitive/ Developmental/ Social Psychology, or Research Methods). The successful candidate will also benefit from access to shared research facilities, infrastructure, and resources including technical staff. Specialist facilities include the Sussex Child Research Hub, Behavioural Neuroscience labs, Clinical Imaging Sciences Centre (with 3T MRI), Brain and Body laboratory; Human Psychophysiology and Psychoacoustic laboratories; and Vision laboratories. In addition, the School of Psychology hosts a number of Research Centres where we have significant critical mass: Sussex Neuroscience, Sussex Addiction Research and Intervention Centre (SARIC), Sussex Centre for Research on Kindness, Centre for Research on Cultural and Societal Diversity, Sussex Centre for Mental Health Research, Centre for Research Reform and Open Science, and the Sussex Centre for Sensory and Perceptual Diversity.

Connect with people from around the world who share your values and passion for giving back. This role offers an opportunity to gain hands-on experience while contributing to our mission.

Título del proyecto: Papel dependiente del sexo de los receptores de dopamina D3 en la vulnerabilidad individual para desarrollar un comportamiento compulsivo de búsqueda y consumo de drogas: investigaciones preclínicas utilizando un nuevo antagonista altamente selectivo

Supervisor: Profesor David Belin

Departamento/Instituto: Fisiología, Desarrollo y Neurociencia (PDN)

Socio industrial: Shionogi

Detalles del proyecto:

La epidemia de opioides que se ha cobrado la vida de más de medio millón de personas en Estados Unidos en la última década está llegando al Reino Unido. Todavía no existen tratamientos eficaces para la adicción a los opiáceos y otras drogas como la cocaína y el alcohol, lo que limita nuestra capacidad para ayudar a quienes padecen este trastorno psiquiátrico debilitante, en parte debido a nuestra falta de comprensión de los mecanismos celulares que median la transición de la búsqueda y el consumo de drogas controladas a las compulsivas. El sello distintivo del trastorno por consumo de sustancias. Entre los mecanismos candidatos, los que se encuentran en la fase posterior del receptor de dopamina D3, cuya expresión se ve profundamente exacerbada por la exposición a drogas adictivas, se han destacado durante mucho tiempo. Sin embargo, el papel de este receptor en el comportamiento compulsivo de búsqueda de drogas nunca se ha determinado debido a la falta de procedimientos apropiados en especies no humanas. Aprovechando un nuevo modelo animal de hábitos compulsivos de búsqueda de heroína desarrollado por el laboratorio de Belin, se ha lanzado recientemente una nueva asociación multimillonaria con Shionogi para probar, entre otras cosas, el potencial terapéutico y la firma neuronal asociada de un nuevo receptor de dopamina D3 altamente selectivo en los hábitos de búsqueda de drogas, la búsqueda compulsiva de drogas y la escalada de la autoadministración de drogas en ratas macho y hembra. Este programa de investigación en la interfaz de la neurociencia del comportamiento, la neurofarmacología y la biología molecular proporcionará una oportunidad única para que un estudiante de doctorado adquiera un conocimiento profundo de las bases psicológicas y neuronales de los trastornos por uso de sustancias, al tiempo que adquiere una amplia gama de habilidades experimentales en un entorno muy favorable.

El socio industrial es uno de los pocos laboratorios de las grandes farmacéuticas que quedan invirtiendo en investigación fundamental en neurociencia y persiguiendo el desarrollo de tratamientos novedosos para los trastornos del SNC. Durante mucho tiempo ha estado interesado en expandir su estrategia de descubrimiento de drogas a la adicción a las drogas. Shionogi se ha convertido en uno de los principales socios industriales del paisaje de Cambridge y es muy activo en su colaboración con la Comunidad de Neurociencia de Cambridge. En los últimos cinco años, Shionogi ha apoyado una nueva línea de investigación sobre el papel de los receptores periféricos de opiáceos en los efectos conductuales de los opiáceos en el contexto de una beca BBSRC-ICase con el Belin que ha demostrado ser muy exitosa, siendo así un testimonio del compromiso de Shionogi para apoyar la investigación en el campo de los trastornos por uso de sustancias.

Se espera que los solicitantes tengan una amplia experiencia con procedimientos crónicos de autoadministración intravenosa en ratas.

Más información sobre el programa de doctorado DTP de Cambridge Bioscience en este enlace: https://bbsrcdtp.lifesci.cam.ac.uk/bbsrc-dtp-programme/icase-studentships. Los detalles completos de los requisitos de ingreso a la Universidad y las becas se especifican en el siguiente enlace: https://www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Heersink School of Medicine invites applications for an open-rank faculty position in the Department of Neurobiology. We are seeking candidates with experience in the area of substance use disorders and addictions, motivated behavior, or the consequences of drug experience on brain function. The Department of Neurobiology (link) is an established and well-funded department with over a quarter century of fundamental neuroscience discoveries. Faculty are housed in custom-designed laboratories and offices in the Shelby Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building and nearby Civitan International Research Center. The department has strengths in the molecular mechanisms of neuronal function, synaptic communication and plasticity, and animal models of neuropsychiatric disorders, with technical approaches spanning molecular, genetic, cellular, systems, and behavioral levels of analysis. The Department of Neurobiology provides competitive start-up packages, modern laboratory space, excellent core facilities, a collaborative research environment, and world-class training programs. UAB is strongly committed to neuroscience research, and the department is expanding rapidly under new leadership.

Driven by an intensely collaborative and entrepreneurial character, UAB is one of the leading economic engines in Alabama, with a nearly $4 billion budget and a statewide economic impact exceeding $12.1 billion annually. UAB is Alabama’s largest employer with nearly 28,000 employees, and ranks in the top 10 among public universities for NIH funding, with total research expenditures exceeding $715 million in 2022. With nearly 1,700 faculty, 1,200 medical and graduate students, and 12,000 undergraduate students, UAB pursues the frontiers of education, research, and health care and strives to be one of the most dynamic and productive universities of the 21st century. Birmingham is a cosmopolitan city at the heart of a metropolitan area with a population of 1.1 million people. It is a rich cultural center and progressive community with low cost of living, moderate weather, and ample outdoor activities.

Successful applicants will join one of the strongest neuroscience environments in the country. The UAB Comprehensive Neuroscience Center (CNC) has more than 450 neuroscience research faculty, clinicians, staff, students & trainees representing 32 UAB departments across 9 UAB schools. The CNC serves as a focal point for basic and applied neuroscience research at UAB. In addition, UAB is home to several other neuroscience-related centers, including the Center for Addiction and Pain Prevention and Intervention (CAPPI), Civitan International Research Center (CIRC), Center for Neurodegeneration and Experimental Therapeutics (CNET), an NIH-funded Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, and Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute. UAB is one of 42 institutions with an NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award, which supports translational research and promotes junior investigators.

Candidates must have a Ph.D. and/or M.D in a related field and a strong record of research accomplishments. Faculty members are expected to establish or continue active independent research programs and to participate in education of professional, graduate, and undergraduate students. To ensure priority consideration, applications should be submitted by September 15, 2025, but applications will be considered until positions are filled. Applicants should submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, list of references, and brief summary of current and proposed research activities as a single PDF file.