Research Associate

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The Role
We are recruiting a Research Associate to work on a three-year ESRC-funded project awarded to Laurence White and Julie Morris.

The project will examine how, in spoken interactions, listeners make predictions about speech timing to facilitate both their comprehension and their coordination of turn-taking. See the ECLS website for more information about the team and the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences, including our Speech and Language Sciences subject area.

The postholder, who should have a PhD in a relevant discipline, will be responsible for the setting up and running of speech perception experiments in the laboratory and online, and the processing and statistical analysis of experimental data. They will also be actively involved in writing and dissemination of research outcomes, taking a leading role where appropriate, and in engagement beyond academic audiences via workshops and other activities. In the later part of the project, they will collaborate with another researcher to run and analyse perception studies with people with aphasia.

We are committed to building and maintaining a fair and inclusive working environment. We would be happy to discuss arrangements for flexible working, including a combination of working on campus and remotely, and flexibility around start and finish times, appropriate to the needs of the role.

The role is full time and fixed for 3 years.

Informal enquiries are welcome. Please contact Laurence White, laurence.white@newcastle.ac.uk  to discuss the role.

To apply, please upload an up-to-date CV and letter of application outlining specific examples around how you meet the requirements set out in ‘The Person' section below.

Interviews will take place week commencing 22nd April.

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