Postdoctoral Research Associate

3 weeks ago

Durham, United Kingdom Durham University Full time

**Postdoctoral Research Associate**
**(**
**Job Number**:
**23001342**
**)**

Department of Music

Grade 7: - £37,099 - £39,347 per annum

Fixed Term - Full Time

**Contract Duration***: 36 months

**Contracted Hours per Week***: 35

**Closing Date***: 15-Sep-2023, 5:59:00 PM

**Disclosure and Barring Service Requirement***: Not Applicable.

**The University**

At Durham University we are proud of our people. A globally outstanding centre of educational excellence, a collegiate community of extraordinary people, a unique and historic setting - Durham is a university like no other. We believe that inspiring our people to do outstanding things at Durham enables Durham people to do outstanding things professionally and personally.

Across the University we have a huge variety of roles and career opportunities, which together make us a large and successful community, which is a key hub of activity within our region and nationally. We would be thrilled if you would consider joining our thriving University. Further information about the University can be found here

**The Role and Department**

Durham's Department of Music is one of the best in the UK**, **with an outstanding reputation for excellence in research and teaching. We attract exceptionally talented students, and focus on high-quality research-led teaching. We have a thriving and supportive research culture, with funding from national and international research councils and foundations and a community of postdoctoral fellows.

We have internationally renowned strengths in music psychology, musicology, theory and analysis, ethnomusicology, composition, and performance. Our strategic priorities include nurturing interdisciplinary dialogue between these areas and enhancing the diversity and inclusivity of our research base. The research environment features world-class facilities, wide methodological expertise, opportunities for discussion and feedback, mentoring and other support schemes; department staff participate in a range of interdisciplinary research centres and institutes.

**The Role**

We seek to appoint a talented individual to the role of Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Music Psychology to join the research project entitled “Using music to investigate perceptual and cognitive constraints on imagination”, led by Dr Kelly Jakubowski and funded by the Leverhulme Trust. You will conduct high-quality research that combines methods from music psychology, computational musicology, and computational linguistics and will be encouraged to develop connections and interdisciplinary dialogue between your field and other areas supported by the University, as well as with audiences beyond academia.

This post offers an exciting opportunity to make a major contribution to the development of internationally excellent research while allowing you unrivalled opportunities for career progression and professional development. The University provides a working environment that is inclusive and welcoming and where everyone is treated fairly with dignity and respect. The Department actively promotes the values of equality, diversity and inclusion, and in joining us, you would contribute to ongoing initiatives and conversations to further these principles.

The post is for a fixed term only, and it is not anticipated that it will be extended beyond this fixed term.

**Responsibilities***:
Applicants are invited for a Post-Doctoral Research Associate position in music psychology in Durham University’s Music Department. The position is associated with the project “Using music to investigate perceptual and cognitive constraints on imagination”, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. This project comprises a series of large-scale studies of imaginings evoked by music (e.g., memories, fictional narratives, multimodal mental imagery), and aims to provide new mechanistic understandings of how such imaginings are constrained by features of both the music and the individual listener. This will be achieved using behavioural experiments, computational analysis of music, and natural language processing methods applied to textual descriptions of music-evoked imaginings. The successful applicant will work directly with Dr Kelly Jakubowski and a PhD student employed on the project, in close collaboration with co-investigator Prof Elizabeth Margulis (Princeton University, USA), and will have the opportunity to spend time as a visiting researcher at Princeton.
- To contribute to design and implementation of behavioural and online experiments on music-evoked imaginings.
- To lead data analysis of projects using advanced quantitative methods (e.g. classification models, multilevel linear models, natural language processing).
- To understand and convey material of a specialist or highly technical nature to the research team through presentations.
- To prepare and deliver presentations on research outputs/activities to audiences which may include academic and non-academic audienc

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