Location: | Colchester, Hybrid |
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Salary: | £33,966 per annum, pro rata |
Hours: | Part Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 18th February 2025 |
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Closes: | 5th March 2025 |
Job Ref: | REQ09137 |
Department
We are a large and vibrant Psychology Department guided by our University’s founding principles of breaking new ground, of challenging existing expectations, and of making a meaningful difference in the world. To achieve these goals, we organise our research and our teaching under the broader theme of ‘Understanding Our Place In The World’. We approach our work within this novel framework across three areas of concentration: Thinking about the world, Interacting with the world, and Experiencing the world. This allows our staff to pursue their intellectual ambitions and to achieve research excellence, all while fostering an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach that utilises multiple methodologies.
We occupy purpose-built facilities including state-of-the-art EEG/ERP, eye-tracking, psychophysiology and computerised testing labs. Academics also have access to the Centre for Brain Science, which includes TMS, tDCS, tVNS, fNIRS, virtual reality, pain and human sexuality testing facilities. We are internationally known for excellence in research, having been ranked in the top 20 in the UK for research power in the 2022 Research Excellence Framework. We also offer an excellent BPS-accredited education to our students, with undergraduate and post-graduate courses guided by the Department’s overarching ethos. We were recently ranked 21st in the UK for overall student satisfaction in Psychology. We are proud to hold an Athena SWAN Silver Award (2020) for our work on promoting gender equality.
Psychology at Essex: Is this your place in the world?
Duties of the role
You will have an active role in successfully delivering the research objectives on an interdisciplinary project funded by the Wellcome Trust. You will work with researchers, lived experience experts and other stakeholders to measure, model and modify the links between mental health and circadian rhythms in sleep and heart rate in young adults. You will work with clinical focus groups and on aspects related to clinical care of young adult participants and a sample of BT employees in two large-scale studies, one of which is an intervention study (clinical trial) to improved sleep and autonomic function in young adults with symptoms of insomnia and depersonalisation-derealisation.
Skills and qualifications required
You should have a relevant Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate subject and/or professional experience and/or practice in the fields of health and social care and mental health / lived experience advocacy. Applicants should be experienced in working with adolescents and adult participants experiencing mental health challenges, and relevant professional experience within multi agency contexts to promote service user representation and advocacy within service design and delivery. Candidates with lived experience of mental health conditions are particularly welcome to apply.
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