Postdoctoral Research Fellow

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Division of Psychology
Location:  Egham
Wage: 

£39,233
each year – together with London Allowance
Put up Kind:  Full Time
Closing Date: 
23.59 hours BST on Friday 29 September 2023
Reference:  0623-283

Full Time, Mounted-Time period for 15 months

Purposes are invited for a 15-month, full-time Postdoctoral Analysis Fellow place within the Division of Psychology at Royal Holloway, College of London.

This place is funded by an ESRC analysis grant awarded to Professor Kathy Rastle in collaboration with Professor Marc Brysbaert (Ghent College, Belgium) and Professor Marco Marelli (College of Milano-Bicocca, Italy). The undertaking asks what kids and adolescents study by way of studying expertise and entails a mixture of corpus analyses and behavioural experiments. The postholder might be working intently with one other postdoctoral researcher on the undertaking (Maria Korochkina) who has designed a brand new corpus of youngsters’s and younger individuals’s books. This publish will lead on designing behavioural experiments with kids and adolescents based mostly on insights from that corpus. 

Candidates ought to maintain a PhD in psychology or a intently associated self-discipline.  They will need to have excellent quantitative abilities, together with expertise in environment friendly dealing with and evaluation of enormous datasets.  Expertise in designing and programming of psychological experiments is important and expertise conducting analysis with kids in colleges can be a bonus. The profitable applicant might be smitten by utilizing open science instruments to enhance the rigour and influence of the undertaking.  The publish requires an enhanced DBS verify.  

We provide a extremely aggressive rewards and advantages bundle together with beneficiant annual depart and coaching and improvement alternatives.  The profitable applicant will work in Professor Rastle’s lab in Egham, Surrey, the place the Faculty is located in a ravishing, leafy campus close to to Windsor Nice Park and inside commuting distance from London. 

The deliberate begin date is 4 March 2024 however may very well be earlier for the suitable candidate. For an off-the-cuff dialogue concerning the publish, please contact Professor Kathy Rastle on [email protected]

For queries on the applying course of the Human Assets Division may be contacted by e-mail at: [email protected]

Please quote the reference: 0623-283

Closing Date:   23:59, 29 September 2023  

Interview Date: To be confirmed

This place shouldn’t be eligible for hybrid working.

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