Location: | Birmingham |
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Salary: | £34,980 to £44,263 Grade 7 |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 12th July 2024 |
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Closes: | 15th September 2024 |
Job Ref: | 104176 |
Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £34,980 to £44,263 with potential progression once in post to £46,974. Grade: 7
Contract Type: Fixed Term contract up to December 2026
We are inviting applications for a full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow position (start date January 1st 2025) to work in School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham. The successful candidate will work on a 2-year project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, aimed at studying the benefits of language exposure for language processing in healthy older adults. This will be done under direct supervision of Dr. Katrien Segaert and in collaboration with Dr. Evelien Heyselaar (Radboud University, The Netherlands) and Prof. Linda Wheeldon (University of Agder, Norway).
Role Summary
Research focus: Research on language decline in ageing is important and timely: language is a core aspect of human cognition and our research has demonstrated that healthy older adults experience decline in several aspects of their language function. The aim of the project is to examine the mechanisms underlying decline in language production and to use that knowledge to ameliorate this decline. Theories of language production currently link the mechanisms for sentence production to implicit learning, driving syntactic priming effects. Research demonstrates that key features of these effects are persistence over time and generalizability (for useful theoretical background, see https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35389705/). The postdoctoral student will set up experiments to compare the effects of different language training protocols in healthy older adults, with the aim of increasing the persistence of priming effects, thereby increasing diversity of language use.
The candidate will be involved in all stages of designing and conducting experiments, will be expected to prepare the results for and contribute to high quality academic publications, to present at national and international academic conferences, and engage in public engagement activities. The expectation is that the postdoctoral researcher will be the first author on several publications.
This is a fixed-term, full-time position for 2 years. To apply, please upload a cover letter detailing why you are a suitable candidate for this position, and a CV.
We will be interviewing candidates online end of September/beginning of October 2024.
Main Duties
The responsibilities may include some but not all of the responsibilities outlined below.
Person Specification
Informal enquiries to Dr. Katrien Segaert: k.segaert@bham.ac.uk
To download the full job description & details of this position & submit an electronic application online please click on the 'Apply' button above.
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We value diversity & inclusion at the University of Birmingham & welcome applications from all sections of the community & are open to discussions around all forms of flexible working.
Closes: 15th September 2024
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