Funded PhD Place – Using Wearables to Evaluate Early Story-telling Interventions

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Funded PhD Place – Using Wearables to Evaluate Early Story-telling Interventions

Company

University of East London

Job description

One funded PhD position is available to work on a project funded by the Mercers’ Company as a collaboration between the , the and the (LEYF).The project will use child and machine learning to assess the effect of a one-year story-telling intervention conducted in nurseries located in areas of socioeconomic deprivation. Our main analyses will focus on using to measure how the story-telling intervention affects the of children’s spontaneous speech and play, and intra-groupThe PhD will be based at the , under the supervision of , working within a team of twenty full-time researchers working on similar projects funded by the ERC, MRC and ESRC, and will collaborate closely with storytellers based at the , and early years pedagogy experts based at .Experience of working with children and advanced data analyses (e.g. coding in Python/Matlab) is highly desirable. Please kindly note that only UK and naturalised EU students will be eligible for this position.The PhD will start in November 2024 or January 2025.For more information and details of how to apply, please contact Sam Wass .Funded

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Location

London

Job date

Sat, 26 Oct 2024 07:56:19 GMT

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