Research Associate/Lab Manager

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The Role
The School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences (ECLS) seeks candidates for the position of Lab Manager/Research Assistant. ECLS is an inter-disciplinary school with staff and students working in the fields of Speech and Language Sciences, Linguistics, Applied Linguistics and Communication and Education. Researchers in the school employ a variety of experimental methods including audio-visual, acoustic, and articulatory speech analysis, eye tracking, psycholinguistic experiments, and language learning paradigms and platforms.

The post holder will support the research of academic staff and students in experimental and laboratory projects from the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences, School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics and the School of Modern Languages.

This includes support for one of more of the following co-located labs:

• A psycholinguistics lab with an eye tracker and a range of software programs for behavioural experiments (e.g. Experiment Builder, EyeLink Data Viewer, Gorilla, Ibex Farm, etc.).
• A phonetics lab with: audio-visual recording, transcribing and editing facilities, including an anechoic chamber, edirol recorders for high quality auditory recordings for acoustic analysis and camcorders for video recordings. articulatory recording facilities, including ultrasound tongue imaging, electropalatography, electro-glottography, and nasometry. a range of software programs to support the above tools (e.g. PRAAT, ELAN, PHON, AAA, R, Python, etc.).
• A babylab with hardware and software for studies using preferential looking techniques for early child language research.

The post holder will be supervised by jointly by the Head of School and the Director of the Experimental Linguistics Lab, who will agree specific duties and responsibilities and will be supported to carry out their own research and to play an active part of the research culture in the school.

This role is part time 18.5 hours per week and is fixed term until July 2026.

For informal enquiries, please contact Ghada Khattab ghada.khattab@newcastle.ac.uk or Julie Morris julie.morris@newcastle.ac.uk.

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