Research Associate

3 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**Postdoctoral Research Associate**
**UE07 £35,333 - **£ **42,155 per annum**
**College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science**
**School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences**
**Full time, Fixed Term (until August 2024)**
**1 x position available
**The Psychology department in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is seeking a research associate on a full time, fixed term basis until 31 st August 2024. This post is expected to commence in approx. February 2023.

**The Opportunity**:
The Research Associate is required to design, develop and refine experiments on language alignment in communication as well as write up and contribute to relevant reports.

Some delivery of undergraduate and/or postgraduate teaching activities related to the topics of language production and/or dialogue will also be required.

Applications are invited from those with a PhD (or pending) in Psychology, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, or related disciplines

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- A PhD (pending and assumed complete can be considered) in Psychology, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, or related disciplines.
- Experience in experimental psychological data collection, especially involving psycholinguistic methods.
- Experience of carrying out statistical analysis of experimental psychological data.
- An up-to-date knowledge of the current literature on the psycholinguistics of language processing.
- Excellent time management, problem solving and organisation skills.

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.

**Application information**:
We ask you to include a current CV and cover letter with names of three referees who may be contacted at a later date (please note if you do not wish for anyone to be contacted until _after _an offer has been made).

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our **right to work **web pages.

As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.

The School is recognised as world-leading, as shown in its excellent output across all areas in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework. Psychology is rated 3 rd, Philosophy is rated 4 th and Linguistics and English Language is rated 3 rd in the UK by Times Higher Education for the quality and breadth of the research. Read about the impact our research is making on the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences website (Opens in new browser tab).



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