Employer:
Location: Swansea, Wales
Pay: £34,132 to £38,249 per year, together with USS pension benefits
Contract Type: Contract
Hours: Full time
Disability Confident: No
Closing Date: 27/12/2025
About this job
This is a Fixed Term role until December 2026 working full-time.
The purpose of the role is to support Swansea University’s role within the Dementias Platform UK (DPUK) collaboration, a £53 million pound public-private Medical Research Council funded endeavour to create a wide ranging and innovative dementias research facility, incorporating different research disciplines from stem‑cell research to data analysis.
DPUK is a world leading resource for person‑focused dementias research designed to fast‑track scientific knowledge, treatments and the prevention of the disease.
The post offers a unique opportunity to work on a project utilising the latest AI techniques and large language models (LLMs) for developing data discovery and feasibility tools as well as personal identifiable information (PII) detection.
Responsibilities
* Partaking in team planning and management
* Data preparation
* Statistical analysis
* Writing results for publication
* Contribute to DPUK support activities, including provisioning data to projects, reviewing project outputs, handling researcher queries about DPUK, and helping researchers develop project ideas
* Work with the DPUK team to develop and test various LLM methods utilising data and metadata within the data portal, compare methods and explore opportunities and challenges in different approaches
* Support with the development of a user interface for users to query across DPUK data/metadata and work on PII detection projects
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