Description review

Research Associate in Mathematical Biomedicine

University of Manchester · Manchester, United Kingdom · back to the listing

HR standards

33/100

poor

Title ↔ description

58/100

needs work

Reads as

Data Scientist

98% confident

What this role officially is

data scientist — ESCO, the EU occupation classification

Data scientists find and interpret rich data sources, manage large amounts of data, merge data sources, ensure consistency of data-sets, and create visualisations to aid in understanding data. They build mathematical models using data, present and communicate data insights and findings to specialists and scientists in their team and if required, to a non-expert audience, and recommend ways to apply the data.

Also known as: data scientists, data engineer, research data scientist, data expert, data research scientist

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What the listing never says

  • No section describes what the person would actually do. Scope clarity
  • No pay range published. Candidates cannot tell whether applying is worth their time. Pay transparency
  • No location or timezone policy stated, so a candidate cannot tell where they may work from. Scope clarity

The listing, marked up

Nothing in the wording of this listing tripped a check. The scores above still judge how complete and coherent it is.

We are excited to offer this opportunity to a highly motivated Research Associate to join an ambitious new team working in the field of Digital Endocrinology. The successful applicant will conduct original research aimed at translating understanding of endocrine function into precision medicine applications. The research will use data from wearable device technologies to characterise variability in circadian hormone profiles in humans,…

How this was produced

Highlights are found by rule, not by a model: each one is a phrase matched at a known position, and every note is a template we wrote. The two scores come from a typed-decision model (Jev) that reads the listing against the official role definition and real listings for the same role, and returns probabilities rather than prose — it never writes any of the words on this page, and never chooses what to highlight.

Deterministic penalty applied to the HR score: 16 points (from 49 before penalties). Reviewed 23 Sep 2026.