The Postgraduate Research Associate Programme is designed to equip candidates with postgraduate research experience through studying towards a PhD. Through collaborative research projects and dedicated mentorship from experienced SAMRC researchers, research associates gain advanced skills, practical experience and professional readiness for appointment to research positions. The programme also provides an opportunity to train researchers:
- in emerging/strategic research areas or fields where researchers from designated groups are underrepresented, and
- in disciplines that are not included in postgraduate training programmes in tertiary institutions.
Research trainees are supervised/co-supervised by SAMRC Senior Scientists or Professors employed within the SAMRC Research Units, Research Centres and Platforms.
Therefore, preference will be given to candidates of the designated groups, registered for a doctoral degree or master's in scarce skills and strategic and/or emerging fields within the health and clinical research where these groups are underrepresented, such as, but not limited to, Biostatistics, Demography, Data Science, Genomics, Epidemiology, Implementation, and Translational Science.
The purpose of this Request for Applications (RFA) is to attract PhD and Master's candidates within the following research fields, which will be given preference: Behavioural Sciences, Biostatistics, Bioethics, Bioinformatics, Data Science, Digital Health, Demography, Epidemiology, Environmental Public Health, Evolutionary Virology, Implementation and Translational Science, Health Economics, Genomics, Immunology, and Structural Biology.