Sidb Postdoctoral Research Fellow

7 months ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**UE07 £37,099 - £44,263 Per Annum**

**College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine / Edinburgh Medical School / Deanery of Biomedical Sciences / Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences**

**Contract Type - Fixed-Term (2 Years)**

**Full-time - 35 Hours Per Week**

The Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain located in the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences wishes to recruit an enthusiastic, independent Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join their research group working on therapy strategies for brain disorders.

**The Opportunity**:
We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to contribute to the development of a programme of high quality research using behavioural assessment coupled with tracking of complex behaviours and vocalisations in rat models of ASD/ID. The successful applicant will need to conduct original research in this area, contribute to the planning and implementation of experiments to assess the core goals and produce high quality material for publication and dissemination

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- Appropriate degree, with relevant post-graduate research experience. Normally a PhD (or PhD near completion) in Neuroscience or equivalent professional qualification and/or experience.
- Expertise in assessing social play behaviour in rats.
- Experience with designing and implementing unintrusive experimental approaches to behavioural assessment in rat models of ASD/ID and analysing behavioural data generated using these approaches.
- Experience using an ethological approach to phenotype rat behaviour and experience with or knowledge of empirical behaviour testing in rodents.
- Applicants must hold or be willing to obtain a Home Office ASPeL Licence (formerly PIL)

Click **here **for a copy of the full job description.

**As a valued member of our team you can expect**:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits **pension scheme **, **staff discounts, **family friendly initiatives **, flexible working and much more. Access our **staff benefits page **for further information and use our **reward calculator **to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our **right to work webpages **(opens new browser tab)

**Key dates to note**

Interviews will be held within 2 weeks of closing date.



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