Research Associate in Developmental Psychology x2 – 0998-23

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Wage:

£31,396 to £36,024

Closing Date:  

Sunday 24 September 2023

Interview Date:  

Wednesday 11 October 2023

Reference:  

0998-23

The Division of Psychology at Lancaster College is searching for to nominate two full time Analysis Associates, to work with Dr Kirsty Dunn (Psychology) and Professor Gert Westermann (Psychology) together with a variety of exterior collaborators throughout Durham College and the College of Warwick. The function is for an 18-month interval. 

You’ll work on a challenge funded by the Nuffield Basis to analyze the prenatal environmental origins of the ‘achievement hole’ in UK colleges. 

Concerning the Origins of the ‘achievement hole’ Venture

Immense funding into nationwide schooling curricula worldwide has revealed minimal results on youngsters’s attainment. While widespread response has been to reform schooling and improve accountability, developmental psychology presents a wealth of analysis outlining environmental results on mind improvement within the womb, lengthy earlier than college age.

On this challenge, we’ll conduct a collection of systematic critiques on the long-term instructional penalties of hostile components throughout being pregnant impacting on fetal, toddler, and youngster improvement. Some adversities, comparable to alcohol use, are well-studied with suggestions built-in into maternal well being care, while others, comparable to maternal stress, want additional investigation. Elements embrace:

Maternal stress, malnutrition, teratogens, prescription drugs and an infection, maternal sleep deprivation, and maternal metabolic issues, throughout being pregnant.

Your function

You may be concerned in all features of the challenge, together with literature search, knowledge evaluation, contributing to publications and shows (educational and non-academic), and co-organising coverage briefing workshops. You’ll have an undergraduate diploma in Psychology or associated space. You must be capable of display a capability to conduct systematic assessment analysis, and enthusiasm for informing future analysis, coverage and apply surrounding early years schooling.

The Group

The origins of the ‘achievement hole’ staff is led by Dr Kirsty Dunn (Psychology, Lancaster College), in collaboration with a variety of educational and scientific specialists in perinatal well being;

Professor Gert Westermann (Psychology, Lancaster College), Professor P. Saravannan (College of Warwick), Dr Thomas Barber (College of Warwick). 

Our staff additional contains an thrilling group of educational, scientific care specialists in addition to representatives of households with lived experiences of the components beneath investigation. 

Why must you come and work with us?

We’re dedicated to offering a bespoke improvement package deal for our analysis workers, and to actively selling equality, range, and inclusion throughout the staff and throughout the programme as an entire. 

Researchers on the programme can have the chance to work with professionals from a spread of disciplines and careers; develop publications and outputs; current their work at conferences; have interaction in informing coverage actions; entry skilled improvement coaching; and construct their inner and exterior networks to lift their profiles.

We’ll take a broad view of profession improvement to organize colleagues for development each inside and outdoors academia and can present help for grant/job purposes exterior of the programme. 

Researchers can have:

• Beneficiant vacation go away – 25 days (pro-rata) annual go away plus College closure days and financial institution holidays.
• Entry to worker pension scheme, and annual versatile advantages scheme.

The Psychology Division is a busy instructing and analysis lively Division.  It’s residence to a pleasant group of over 40 Educational workers, with groups of Analysis and Skilled Providers and Technical workers.  The Division helps a big cohort of Undergraduate college students; a thriving group of Masters and Postgraduate analysis college students; and a variety of analysis tasks together with a number of cross-institution grants. We’re dedicated to selling Equality, Variety and Inclusion throughout the School, and supporting family-friendly and versatile working insurance policies on a person foundation. The Division holds an Athena Swan Bronze Award, which recognises and celebrates good employment apply undertaken to handle gender equality in Increased Schooling and analysis.

Additional details about the Division is out there at: http://www.psych.lancs.ac.uk

Please add a canopy letter along with your software.

Be aware: This function is indefinite topic to funding, which is presently solely obtainable till March, 2025. Candidates are anticipated to begin earlier than the top of October 2023.

Casual enquiries are welcome and must be addressed to Dr Kirsty Dunn, Lecturer in Developmental Psychology, ok.dunn@lancaster.ac.uk  

Additional particulars:
Please word: Except specified in any other case within the advert wording, all marketed roles are UK primarily based.


The College offers an setting that strongly
helps the person wants of every worker, while selling the significance
of wellbeing for all our colleagues. We have now a spread of help networks obtainable for our workers, and extra data on these could be discovered on the ‘Working at Lancaster’ data web page.
 
We’re dedicated to family-friendly and versatile
working insurance policies on a person foundation. The College recognises and
celebrates good employment apply undertaken to handle all inequality in
larger schooling.
 
We warmly welcome candidates from all sections of the
group no matter their age, faith, gender identification or expression,
race, incapacity or sexual orientation, and are dedicated to selling
range, and equality of alternative.