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City, university of london - school of health & psychological sciences.

Founded in 1894, City, University of London is a global university committed to academic excellence with a focus on business and the professions and an enviable central London location.

City attracts around 20,000 students (over 40% postgraduate level) from more than 150 countries and staff from over 75 countries.

In the last decade, City has almost tripled the proportion of its total academic staff producing world-leading or internationally excellent research. During this period, City has made significant investments in its academic staff, its estate and its infrastructure and continues to work towards realizing its vision of being a leading global university.

The culture at City is built on our shared core values, which means that all employees are expected to behave according to our values: “We care, We learn, We act.”

The School of Health Sciences has an excellent record of multi-disciplinary health research. We have an opportunity for a Research Assistant to work with Professor Rose McCabe two exciting projects: - Improving outcomes in patients who self-harm - Adapting and evaluating a brief psychological intervention in Emergency Departments (ASSURED) and - Supporting Adolescents with Self-Harm (SASH)

Applications are invited from candidates experienced in research projects in mental health, psychology or medicine. You will need drive, enthusiasm and excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

The Research Assistant will work directly with the program lead, Prof Rose McCab, Dr Alexandra Bakou (Trial Manager) and Maria Long (Trial Manager) in the School of Health & Psychological Sciences. The post will be based at City, University of London. The role will involve recruiting patients at participating hospitals, obtaining consent and collecting outcome data.

Person Specification

The postholder will have a first degree in health or social science (i.e. psychology, sociology, clinical studies) and possibly a Masters degree, in psychology or a related subject / discipline. They will have experience working with people with mental health problems, experience of conducting and delivering high quality quantitative research, experience of working with NHS staff, be able to respect and communicate confidential information in a sensitive and effective manner, be able and willing to travel between hospital sites in/around London and across the UK to study sites and be able and willing to work outside of office hours (including evening and weekends).

Additional Information

City, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors.

The role is available from 02 September 2024 or earlier by negotiation. Closing date: 19th August 2024 at 11:59pm.

City offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background. City operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.

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Psychology Research Assistant

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a research assistant within the Persistent Physical Symptoms Service, Maudsley Hospital. We are seeking an enthusiastic person to be part of our internationally recognised service.

You will work as part of a clinically experienced multidisciplinary team that includes Psychiatrists, Therapists and a Physiotherapist.

The post holder will be vital in supporting the clinical team with any research or day to day activities that are delegated to them.

In this role, the post holder will be responsible for administering psychological measures, data management duties, data analysis, as well as writing up of results.

We are an internationally recognised service providing assessment and evidence-based treatment for persistent physical symptoms (PPS). Our expertise includes chronic symptoms in long term conditions and medically unexplained symptoms. We treat a range of conditions including:

Persistent physical symptoms

Chronic fatigue syndrome

Chronic physical symptoms and disability in long term conditions

Fibromyalgia

Irritable bowel syndrome

Non-cardiac chest pain

Dysfunctional breathing

Chronic pain

We pride ourselves in our ability to engage with people who have complex and sometimes long-standing difficulties. We can treat people with significant disability and those suffering from co-morbid depression or anxiety.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be responsible for managing a computerised database of patient's referral details, subsequent processing and presentation of information. They will co-ordinate responses to requests for information both internally and externally and will be responsible for the analysis of data for the unit and trust purposes, using SPSS.

They will oversee the collection and analysis of data in relation to various research projects being undertaken in the unit with assistance from senior members of the team, and contribute to writing up scientific papers related to research carried out in the unit. The post holder will also provide active administrative assistance in the clinical research aims of the unit.

The post holder will be required to interact appropriately with research participants, service users, their carers and relatives, with the ability to convey the goals of the research in a friendly manner. They will also participate in and contribute towards multi-disciplinary meetings within the unit, as well as liaising with health professionals outside of the research team as required.

The post holder will also be responsible for ensuring that study recruitment targets are met and that accurate data collection records are maintained.

The Persistent Physical Symptoms Service is made up of a multi-disciplinary team of Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Psychotherapists and Physiotherapists, with the support of the Service Administrators. The service is currently based at Mapother House within the Maudsley Hospital at Denmark Hill, but is due to move offices within the Maudsley Hospital site.

Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill, less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2) and is within walking distance from the beautiful green spaces of Ruskin Park and the vibrant high-street that offers great shopping opportunities and a wide range restaurants.

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It's important to us that you feel valued and appreciated and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.

Some of our benefits include:

• Generous pay, pensions and leave
• Work life balance
• Career development
• Accommodation
• NHS discounts
• Counselling services
• Wellbeing events
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Childcare vouchers
• Staff restaurants

Date posted

24 July 2023

Agenda for change

£34,089 to £41,498 a year Per Annum Inc

Working pattern

Reference number.

334-PMOA-5421803-BT

Job locations

Maudsley Hospital

Denmark Hill

Job description

Job responsibilities.

• JOB PURPOSE

The post holder will be part of the Persistent Physical Symptoms Research and Treatment service, and will be vital in supporting the clinical team with any research or day to day activities that are delegated to them.

The role will be based in Southwark, South London.

• FACTS AND FIGURES

At South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust we provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK. We also provide substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. Our 4,600 staff serves a local population of 1.3 million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient and community services. We provide inpatient care for approximately 5,300 people each year and we treat more than 45,000 patients in the community in Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Croydon. We are part of one of Englands six Academic Health Sciences Centres,Kings Health Partners, with Kings College London,Guys and St ThomasandKings College HospitalNHS Foundation Trusts.

• ORGANISATIONAL POSITION

The post holder will be line managed by the PPS Research & Treatment Unit Lead Psychotherapist/Service Manager, Clare Grey and supervised by the Clinical Lead, Prof Trudie Chalder.

• KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Manage a computerised database of patients referral details, subsequent processing and presentation of information.
• Co-ordinate responses to requests for information both internally and externally.
• Analysis of data for the unit and trust purposes, using SPSS
• Provide active administrative assistance in the clinical research aims of the unit
• To collect data in relation to various research projects being undertaken in the unit
• To analyse data with assistance from senior members of the team
• To contribute to writing up scientific papers related to research carried out in the unit

Communication and working relationships

• To interact appropriately with research participants, service users, their carers and relatives, with the ability to convey the goals of the research in a friendly language
• To communicate effectively with all members of the research & treatment team, including contributing to the multi-disciplinary meetings
• Helpful liaison will health professionals and other people outside of the research team
• To help engender an excellent and collaborative team spirit

Service and practice development

• To contribute to the engagement and consent of study participants.
• To ensure study recruitment targets are met
• To ensure that study recruitment and data collection records are accurately maintained.

Self-awareness and professional development

• Be an active and engaging member of each team
• Continue to update knowledge in the relevant research field
• Present summaries of relevant papers at various meetings
• Conduct research assessments
• To be involved in the writing of high quality reports and academic papers in collaboration with other researchers
• To undertake all required mandatory training as appropriate to the grade and position
• Efficient management of workload and time
• To be able to work independently as required with minimal supervision.
• COMMUNICATIONS AND WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

Persistent Physical Symptoms Research and Treatment Service staff: Daily

Clinical Lead: Weekly

Other Trust departments, external agencies and other links: As required

OTHER INFORMATION

Confidentiality

Confidentiality/data protection regarding all personal information and Trust activity must be maintained at all times (both in and out of working hours) in accordance with professional codes of conduct and relevant legislation such as the Data Protection Act. The post holder should ensure that they are familiar with and adhere to all Trust Information governance policies and procedures. Any breach of confidentiality will be taken seriously and appropriate disciplinary action may be taken.

Equal Opportunities

Promote the concepts of equality of opportunity and managing diversity Trust wide.

Health and Safety

Employees must be aware of the responsibilities placed upon them under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, paying due regard to health and safety in the workplace and management of risk to maintain a safe working environment for service users, visitors and employees.

Infection Prevention and Control

Employees must be aware of their responsibilities to protect service users, visitors and employees against the risks of acquiring health care associated infections, in accordance with Trust policy.

Professional standards and performance review

Maintain consistently high professional standards and act in accordance with the relevant professional code of conduct. Employees are expected to participate in the performance review process.

Service/Department standards

Support the development of performance standards within the Service/Department to ensure the service is responsive to and meeting the needs of its customers.

All Trust staff will comply with the financial processes and procedures.

Safeguarding Children

Employees must be aware of the responsibilities placed on them under the Children Act 1989, 2004.

Code of Conduct

The post holder is required to adhere to the standards of conduct expected of all NHS managers set out in the Code of Conduct for NHS managers.

This job description will be subject to regular review and adjustment.

This job description is an outline of the key tasks and responsibilities of the post and the post holder may be required to undertake additional duties appropriate to the pay band. The post may change over time to reflect the developing needs of the Trust and its services, as well as the personal development of the post holder.

Person Specification

Qualifications.

• Relevant undergraduate degree
• Post-graduate degree (e.g. MSc) related to Psychology or Mental Health
• GCP Training
• Experience of interviewing research participants
• Experience of performing clinical diagnostic assessments
• Experience conducting research at a clinical interface or within a randomised controlled trial
• Experience of Data Management
• Competent user of the various Microsoft packages including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Strong interpersonal, oral and written communication skills with the ability to convey goals of research to lay people
• Attention to detail for careful record keeping
• Ability to deal sensitively with study participants and their families or carers
• An understanding of data protection and patient confidentiality
• A high level of organisational skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .

Employer details

Employer name, employer's website.

https://www.slam.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Lead Psychotherapist and Manager for PPS

[email protected]

02032285075

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Graduate Research Assistant

Department of psychology.

Location Egham

Salary £32,621 to £36,024 per annum - including London Allowance

This is the expected starting salary for this post however appointment at a higher point may be made for candidates who demonstrate exceptional skills and experience relevant to the role.

Post Type Full Time

Closing Date 23.59 hours GMT on Tuesday 31 October 2023

Reference 0923-430

Right to work:  Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website . 

Full-Time, Fixed-Term

Applications are invited for the post of Research Assistant in the Department of Psychology [full-time post, available from 01 January 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter for a fixed term of 2 years, with the possibility of extension.

The position is in the N-CoDe (Neuroscience of Communication Development Lab). The group does research investigating cognitive and neural mechanisms in developmental disorders affecting communication and is directed by Prof. Saloni Krishnan. The group currently consists of two postdoctoral researcher and three PhD students.  The post holder will be a member of this lab with responsibility for the provision of research support for an MRC-funded project, “Reward and motivation mechanisms supporting language learning: a cross-syndrome investigation of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and autism”. The position offers an exciting opportunity to develop and use state-of-the-art methods to build a framework of how reward and motivation affect language learning in DLD and autism. The role will involve testing children with DLD, autistic children and neurotypical children, and scanning children in an MRI scanner. There is significant opportunity for skill development, including gaining experience of neuropsychological testing and working with neurodivergent populations.

The project team already includes a postdoctoral researcher and PhD student. The post also offers the opportunity to collaborate with Dr. Pablo Ripollés (NYU), Dr. Matthew Apps (Birmingham), and Dr. Kyle Jasmin (Royal Holloway). The team will also benefit from input from the grant advisory board, which includes Prof. Matt Davis (Cambridge), Prof. Francesca Happé (Kings College London), Prof. Courtenay Norbury (UCL), and Prof. Kathy Rastle (Royal Holloway).

The postholder would join a thriving research-intensive department (ranked 3rd in Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience in REF2021, source: Times Higher Education). Royal Holloway has a dedicated MRI scanner, a strong MRI research community, and excellent research-practice links with schools. 

In return we offer a highly competitive rewards and benefits package including:

• Generous annual leave entitlement 
• Training and Development opportunities
• Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution 
• Various schemes including Cycle to Work, Season Ticket Loans and help with the cost of Eyesight testing. 
• Free parking 

The post is based in Egham, Surrey where the University is situated in a beautiful, leafy campus near to Windsor Great Park and within commuting distance from London. 

For an informal discussion about the post, please contact the PI Dr. Saloni Krishnan on [email protected] . To find out more about the Neuroscience of Communication Development (N-CoDe) Lab, please visit www.ncodelab.com

For queries on the application process the Human Resources Department can be contacted by email at: [email protected]  

Please quote the reference: 0923-430

Closing Date:    23:59, 31 October 2023   

 Interview Date:  To Be Confirmed

The university has adopted hybrid working for some roles therefore some remote working may be possible for this role.

Royal Holloway is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI), and encourages applications from all people regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, parental status, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or trans status or history. More information on our structures and initiatives around EDI, including information on staff diversity networks, can be found on our Equality and Diversity Intranet page .

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We didn't have to make any special estimates, because this was one of the fundamental scientific topics we had been working on for the previous ten years. So, we knew very well what the impact was going to be: the real cost of the reforms. We had even written about it, including in a famous article co-authored by myself and [Sergei] Vasilyev. It described the main conflicts and problems which would inevitably occur. First, we presented this at a seminar in Padua [Italy], then we published it. It provided a sober and tough description of the inevitable adverse effects of the transformations which had to be made.

Setting aside Chubais's sophistry regarding the inevitability of the "shock therapy" deregulation and privatization policy, and its hideous consequences, what's true in that statement is that the Gaidar government had its plans set in advance, thanks to a nearly ten-year process of preparation. Foremost among the foreign sponsors of that process was the late Lord Harris of High Cross , head of the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA) in London. The IEA is an arm of the infamous Mont Pelerin Society, the British economic warfare unit founded in 1947 by London School of Economics Prof. Friedrich von Hayek. Mont Pelerin's mission: to use the free-trade "liberalism" of 18th- and 19th-Century Britain as a bludgeon against nation-states, which had been strengthened during the mobilization for World War II. Three decades after Mont Pelerin's launch, the IEA became the think-tank that cranked out the core policies of "Thatcherism," named for British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. That radical privatization/deregulation/free-trade agenda savaged the U.K. itself, and much of the rest of the world, beginning at the end of the 1970s.

In 1983-91, the IEA and its Centre for Research into Communist Economies (CRCE) conducted a series of seminars, at various venues around the world, for young economists from Eastern Europe and Russia. On Aug. 23, 1991, the "Diary" column in the London Times showcased their special relationship with these Russians: "The free market gurus and think-tanks that helped redraw the economic map of Britain during the 1980s," wrote the Times , "are planning an ideological invasion of the Soviet Union, in the belief that the failed coup [of Aug. 21-22] has rendered the empire ripe for a dose of Thatcherism.... The Thatcherites believe that the events of the last few days have created the perfect new laboratory to test their ideas." Interviewed about the monthly luncheons he would be hosting for "free-marketeers and Soviet economists," Lord Harris told the Times , "We criticized [then Soviet President Mikhail] Gorbachov in the past for not reforming fast enough. Now the pace will be accelerated and our think-tanks can play a key role."

Harris's project, and the parallel patronage of the Rothschild family's George Soros, shaped the group of "young reformers," who ran economic policy under Russian President Boris Yeltsin in 1991-98. Harris called them "our men." As the Soviet bloc splintered, the Mont Pelerin Society-groomed economists seized the opening. Their first policy submission was the notorious 500 Days Plan for a leap to the "free market," drafted in 1990 by young economists, including Boris Fyodorov and Leonid Grigoryev from the Gaidar-Chubais group. A year later, in September-November 1991, the Russian institute of Gaidar and his protégé Vladimir Mau nearly folded, because most of its staff entered the government. As acting prime minister in the first Yeltsin Cabinet, Gaidar promptly implemented the "shock" decontrol of prices, beginning with the catastrophic looting of Russian industry and living standards.

The horror story of 1990s Russia has been told many times, including in two books published in English by EIR , Sergei Glazyev's Genocide: Russia and the New World Order (1999) and The Anatomy of Russian Capitalism , by Prof. Stanislav Menshikov (2007). The looting of the country reached a high point in 1996-98, when a Ponzi scheme of Russian short-term government bonds, called GKOs, became a magnet for hot-money flows from all over the world, in the wake of the savaging of Asian currencies by Soros's and other hedge funds. During frenzied Summer 1998 attempts to keep the GKO bubble from blowing out, Chubais handled the Russian government's dealings with the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, securing pledges of $22 billion in help. From the outside, then-U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers was a key player.

They failed, Russia defaulted, the stock market crashed by 75% on the year and the ruble by two-thirds, and some of the Russian nouveaux riches lost their fortunes. Bad derivatives bets related to the Russian bonds brought down the Connecticut-based Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) hedge fund, nearly leading to a worldwide meltdown right then. One would suppose that Chubais's services were no longer required, as veteran intelligence figure and economist Yevgeni Primakov took Russia's reins of government in September 1998.

But, Chubais managed to hang on to another job he had acquired in April 1998, as the GKO crisis ripened. Fired in March 1998 as first deputy prime minister, along with Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin , he became CEO of the national electric power utility, United Energy Systems. During the next decade, while arranging the break-up of UES and privatization of its components, Chubais restyled himself as a "liberal imperialist," borrowing that catch-phrase from Britain's Tony Blair.

And the legacy of the London-steered experiment in Russia runs deeper than its visible extravagance of the 1990s. In a 2001 interview, published for the first time by journalist Alexander Gentelev only in January of this year, Chubais explained: Until the 1996 re-election of Yeltsin, "privatization in Russia was really not an economic process. It was addressing objectives of a completely different scope. Few people understood that at the time, especially in the West." The goal, Chubais elaborated, was political. He presented that goal as "destroying communism" through creating an irreversible attachment to private property ownership in Russia: "We knew that every factory sold, was a nail in the coffin of a communist. Whether it was expensive, or cheap, or free, or with a surcharge—that was question number 20. Number 20! While question number 1 was just this: each private property owner who appeared in Russia meant irreversibility. Irreversibility!"

While the majority of the workers and scientists by whose labor and innovation Soviet assets had been created sank into poverty, Russia's newly minted "private property owners" quickly melded their enormous holdings into existing, worldwide, London- and offshore-based finance.

Some of the members of the Gaidar-Chubais team had earlier departed to the private sector, joining the ranks of would-be "irreversible" private-property owners, some of them on an obscenely huge scale. Others, however, filtered into the institutions of Russian policy-making and continued to hold key positions throughout the first decade of the new century, even as President Vladimir Putin sought to regroup the Russian economy and shift it away from its addiction to raw materials exports. Today, not only are key personnel still on the scene (see below, "Where are 'Our Men' Now?"), along with a whole new generation of people who rose under their tutelage, but it is also evident that the axioms, institutions, and modes of operation, established for the Russian economy by the London-trained "young reformers," have not loosened their grip. For that reason, Russia urgently requires, as much as any nation does, LaRouche's proposed bankruptcy reorganization, under Glass-Steagall principles, of the entire London-centered international system of speculative monetary flows, on whose behalf Russia has been looted.

Now read our documentation : the late Lord Harris's own words, and those of his confederates, describing what they had set in motion the previous decade. Then, we shall touch on how London's "our men" emerged in the late-Soviet years of rule by Yuri Andropov and Mikhail Gorbachov, and take a look at where they are, and what they are doing, today.

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