{"id":247,"date":"2010-07-14T10:30:47","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T09:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/?p=247"},"modified":"2010-07-14T10:30:47","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T09:30:47","slug":"research-assistant-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/2010\/07\/14\/research-assistant-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Assistant (12 months fixed term post)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>School for Health Salary: \u00a331,454<\/p>\n<p>Closing Date: To be confirmed<\/p>\n<p>Interview Date: To be confirmed<\/p>\n<p>Project:<em><strong> inTouch: A video link system to improve social inclusion for people with dementia<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BIME\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/bime\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Bath Institute of Medical Engineering (BIME<\/a>)\u00a0have partnered with the <a title=\"RICE\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rice.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Research Institute for the Care of Older People <\/a>and the <a title=\"UoB - School of Management\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/management\/\" target=\"_blank\">School of Management <\/a>to investigate the potential of video telephony to allow people with dementia to remain connected with friends and family. A significant number of people with dementia live alone or spend long periods alone and can become socially isolated. Improved social interaction can extend the time that a person with dementia can live independently at home, and improve their quality of life. This project will explore how a video link system can improve social inclusion for people with dementia.<\/p>\n<p>Main duties and tasks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Source and\/or develop suitable internet-based video-conferencing platform<\/li>\n<li>Develop flexible application software to interface with video-conferencing platform<\/li>\n<li>Work with other team members and study participants to define system specification using software prototypes<\/li>\n<li>Define, develop, measure and analyse usage metrics associated with the system<\/li>\n<li>Install and support equipment installations in day care centres and participant\u2019s homes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The post holder will be based at the Bath Institute of Medical Engineering in <a title=\"RUH\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ruh.nhs.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Royal United Hospital<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For enquiries please contact Lisa Austin, Research Manager; <a href=\"mailto:L.Austin@Bath.ac.uk\">L.Austin@Bath.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School for Health Salary: \u00a331,454 Closing Date: To be confirmed Interview Date: To be confirmed Project: inTouch: A video link system to improve social inclusion for people with dementia The Bath Institute of Medical Engineering (BIME)\u00a0have partnered with the Research...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,5,9,15,25,27],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brd","tag-assistive-technology","tag-bime","tag-health-research","tag-job-vacancy","tag-rice","tag-telehealth"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}