Postdoctoral Research Associate - Grade 7

The Department seeks to appoint a Research Associate to work full time for on a project using EEG to look at the functional and oscillatory markers of speech segmentation in typical and atypical populations.

Applicants should ideally have a PhD at the date of appointment or be close to completion in one of the following disciplines: Psychology, Engineering, Neuroscience or Linguistics. The candidate should have experience of designing, administering and analysing EEG experiments with human participants.

Expertise in oscillatory paradigms and time-frequency and/or functional connectivity analyses would be an advantage, as well as knowledge in the field of Psycholinguistics (language processing, statistical learning, etc.). The candidate should have excellent mathematical, programming and technical skills (e.g., Matlab).

The project is based in the ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative Development (LuCiD) and will involve researchers from the University of Liverpool and the University of Manchester.

The successful applicant will start in the role on 1^st March 2023. The post is available for 12 months (with the possibility of an extension).

Any applicants who are still awaiting their PhD to be awarded should be aware that if successful, they will be appointed at grade 6, spine point 30. Upon written confirmation that they have been successful in being awarded their PhD, they will be moved onto grade 7, spine point 31 from the date of their award.

Interview date: 16^th January 2023

For full details and to apply online, please visit: recruit.liverpool.ac.uk

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