My responsibilities included o Delivering formal technical instruction to both staff and students on the use of specialist equipment/software such as the FOSS Kjeldahl used in the quantitative determination of nitrogen in a food sample which serves as a surrogate for the protein content within a food sampleo Performing risk assessments and creating standard operating procedures for laboratory procedures and COSHH risk assessments for chemicalso Conducting health and safety inductions to staff and students,

My research focused on physiological mechanisms associated with hot flushes in post-menopausal women/breast cancer patients.• My responsibilities included:o Overseeing participant recruitmento Ensuring all activities were risk assessed and standard operating procedures were adhered to during data collectiono Providing supervision to PhD studentso Data formatting in Microsoft Excel, data analysis in SPSSo Writing manuscripts for publication

My research focused on the effect of meal timing on obesity and type 2 diabetes risk and the impact of sleep restriction and circadian misalignment on cardio-metabolic function during physical and mental challenges experienced by astronauts. My responsibilities included: o Managing and training a team of four research assistants on all aspects associated with their roleso Creating and amending all study related documentso Chairing weekly progress meetings with research teamo Specimen collection, storage and processingo Working to tight immovable deadlines prior to each clinical trialo Ensuring standard operating procedures were adhered to during inpatient clinical trial protocols in accordance with good clinical practiceo Developing and managing large data sets, performing complex data analysiso Writing technical reports and articles for subsequent publication in scientific journals

My research focused on the cardiovascular health of US firefighters. My responsibilities included:o Study and protocol design, obtaining ethical approvalo Identifying effective participant recruitment strategieso Creating consent forms and other study related documents and providing consent to research participantso Ensuring all research-based laboratory activities were performed correctly and safelyo Data formatting, identifying and using correct data analysis approacho Writing technical reports and academic articles for publication