Postdoctoral Researcher

4 weeks ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**UE07 37099-44263**

**College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine/Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences/Salvesen Mindroom Research Centre**

**Fixed term from 1 December 2023 until November 2024**

**Full time: 35 hours per week**

**1 Post
We are looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join our team to design and conduct innovative analyses of interactions between autistic and non-autistic people.

This post is full-time (35 hours per week), however, we are open to considering flexible working patterns. We are also open to considering requests for hybrid working (on a non-contractual basis) that combines a mix of remote and regular on-campus working.

**The Opportunity**:
The Postdoctoral Researcher will be responsible for designing and conducting innovative analyses of video interactions between autistic pairs, non-autistic pairs, and pairs of autistic and non-autistic people. This is part of an interactional collaborative study with data collected from the UK and US. The Postdoctoral Researcher will also contribute to dissemination of results at conferences and in journal publications.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- The ability to generate exploratory or hypothesis-driven analysis plans, informed by the research literature and suitable for the available data types
- The ability to conduct innovative analyses for examining interactions between autistic and non-autistic people using video data
- The ability to write publications including conference abstracts and academic articles.
- The ability to liaise closely with other members of the research team across sites Problem solving and organisational skills.

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The Salvesen Mindroom Research Centre is an exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success.

You will be part of a progressive and innovative replication study in autism. You will have the opportunity to work on an exciting dataset created as part of an international replication study, and the opportunity to be lead author on publications. You will be part of a vibrant research community and an engaged research team. We are excited to be exploring new ways to understand interaction within and between autistic and non-autistic people, and you and your expertise would be welcomed as an important part of our team.

**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)

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

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