Research Associate Breathing Pattern Assessment App Developer
Package Specialist and Supporting Academic Research grade 6 from £35608.
Full Time, 12 Months fixed term contract.
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This position supports a project funded by the EPSRC ‘Emerge’ Place Based Impact Accelerator Account. The project involves developing and refining a smartphone app to assess and monitor breathing patterns. This will support improved rehabilitation outcomes for patients with Breathing Pattern Disorder (BPD), a common but under‑diagnosed cause of breathlessness. BPD is associated with frightening symptoms, so this project has the potential to transform rehabilitation outcomes and quality of life outcomes for patients.
The role will involve app development for a mobile device to monitor and classify breathing patterns from video data. You will be working alongside the project team to incorporate stakeholder feedback and move the product along the regulatory pathway. Occasional travel will be involved to support meetings with stakeholders and to undertake system testing in clinical environments.
Qualifications
* Experience of mobile device application development
* Experience of image feature extraction and classification
* Research background in a relevant area of computer science
* Ability to programme in Python and / or Kotlin
* Ability to write clear documentation
* Well‑organised with an ability to work to deadlines
* Ability to comply with relevant requirement in relation to Research Ethics, Data Protection and Good Clinical Practice
* Ability to communicate well via presentations and written reports to the project team and collaborators and a variety of professional, clinical and patient stakeholders.
We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process. If there are additional adjustments, you’d like to request please contact Dr Sam Winter using the email above. We also offer reasonable adjustments on the job.
Loughborough University is committed to allowing its employees to work dynamically with a combination of working on campus and remotely, where possible. This has been identified as a role that could work dynamically and, if successful, your line manager will discuss these informal arrangements with you. Please note, however, there is a general expectation that the successful candidate will spend the majority of time working on the Loughborough campus due to the onsite activities involved.
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