Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Salary: As this vacancy has limited funding the maximum salary that can be offered is Grade 7. Full time starting salary is normally in the range £36,130 to £45,413 with potential progression once in post to £48,149

Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week for three years; then part time, 18.75 hours per week for 6 months.

Contract Type: Fixed term contract for up to 42 months 

Background

Applications are invited to work on two new research projects, one funded by Shionogi BV “Measuring cognitive outcomes in people with intellectual disability” and a second project ‘The Cerebra Network’, funded by Cerebra. The Research Fellow will be split 50/50 between the two projects for the first three years (overall 1.0 fte) and then work solely on the Cerebra Network at 0.5fte for the final six months of the post.

Across these two projects, the Research Fellow will collect objective and subjective sleep data from children with neurogenetic syndromes and develop and administer new play-based measures of executive functioning. The Research Fellow will lead on project initiation, participant recruitment, data collection, data management and analysis, report writing, preparation of manuscripts and materials for publication and dissemination and related project administration. The post will suit candidates with an interest in clinical psychology and developmental psychology. The candidate will have the opportunity to benefit from a range of training and supervision opportunities while in post.

The successful applicant will be based in the School of Psychology, University of Birmingham. Appointees will work under the direction of Professor Caroline Richards, Dr Rory Devine and Professor Andrew Bagshaw, alongside collaborators Dr Hayley Crawford (University of Warwick), Dr Jane Waite (Aston University) and Dr Jo Moss (University of Surrey). The successful applicant will join Prof Richards’ team: https://www.richardslab.org/ and the cross-institute Cerebra Network: https://www.cerebranetwork.com/

Role Summary

• Working within specified industry grant and charity funded project
• Overseeing and contributing to data collection
• Operating within area of specialism
• Analysing and interpreting research findings and results
• Contributing to generating funding

Main Duties

The responsibilities may include some but not all of the responsibilities outlined below.

• Collect research data from children with rare neurogenetic syndromes via subjective and objective sleep measurement, play-based standardised psychological measures, literature reviews, and research interviews 
• Analyse and interpret data
• Apply knowledge in a way which develops new intellectual understanding

Person Specification

• Achieved at least a 2.1 degree in Psychology or closely-related discipline and a PhD in Psychology that is relevant to the research area.
• Experience of collecting data from children
• Experience with collecting and analysing sleep and/or cognition data
• Experience working and communicating with populations with intellectual disability.
• High level analytical capability
• Ability to communicate complex information clearly
• Knowledge of executive function and/or sleep in either typical development or intellectual disability

Informal enquiries to Caroline Richards, email: c.r.richards@bham.ac.uk 

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