Location: | Portsmouth, Hybrid |
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Salary: | £35,116 to £39,355 per annum |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 17th March 2025 |
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Closes: | 6th April 2025 |
Job Ref: | REC00002806 |
The Role:
The School of Psychology, Sport and Health Science and seeking to appoint a Senior Research Associate, for a fixed term to 30 June 2028.
The Senior Research Associate will work under the guidance of Principle Investigator Dr Sophie Milward and Co-Investigators Prof Simon Kizito (Makerere University, Kampala) and Prof Eunkyung Jo (Dongguk University, Seoul) to carry out research, including:
The postholder will partly oversee two local Research Assistants in Uganda and the Republic of Korea, respectively. The post will be based in Portsmouth, but will require short periods of travel (fully funded) to Uganda and the Republic of Korea, as well as to conferences.
The Project
To truly understand the human mind, we need to embrace the diversity and complexity of human social interactions. However, our current understanding is vastly restricted to interactions between just two people, and within Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) cultures. This project will break from tradition by identifying the mechanisms we use when faced with a group of diverse co-actors with multiple different, interacting relationships, as is often the case in real-life.
We have proposed using ‘task co-representation’ as a test case, to identify whether there are limits on the number of mental states that can be tracked at a given time, and what factors influence our ability to coordinate with multiple group members. This will provide a springboard for research on other social cognitive mechanisms to capture the true complexity of human sociality.
This project will use experimental methods to measure error rates and response times from multiple co-actors in a Joint Simon task, across three cultures (Uganda, Republic of Korea and UK). We will investigate the role of group size and culture, as well as other factors of interest, such as inter-personal relationships between group members and physical features of the interaction environment. There is scope for the successful candidate to build on the current proposal depending on their interests and background.
Hybrid working may be available 2-3 days per week from home.
There is a requirement for occasional overseas travel and weekend working.
For an informal discussion about the role please contact:
Sophie Milward, Principal Investigator: sophie.milward@port.ac.uk
Interviews are anticipated to be held 28 April 2025.
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