DURHAM UNIVERSITY: Postdoctoral Analysis Affiliate, Division of Psychology

The Function

A 30-month fixed-term, full time Postdoctoral Analysis affiliate (PDRA) place is on the market on the Division of Psychology at Durham College. The profitable candidate will be part of the research venture – Age-based imitation bias all through growth, throughout day by day interactions, and throughout cultures. This venture is led by Dr Sheina Lew-Levy and funded by the UK Financial and Social Analysis Council.

This venture is a multi-sited worldwide collaboration. The profitable applicant shall be tasked with main the coding and evaluation of naturalistic video footage of kids’s imitating behaviours from the Republic of the Congo, the U.S., and Scotland. Your duties will embrace knowledge management, growing a coding scheme & guide, coding movies, coaching and supervising research assistants to code movies, in addition to processing, cleaning, and analyzing knowledge. Additionally, you will liaise with colleagues based mostly within the Republic of the Congo, the U.S., and Scotland. You may be anticipated to put in writing up findings for publication and disseminate findings at conferences. The venture is ideally suited to somebody who’s organized, detail-oriented, and who is worked up about working as a part of an interdisciplinary group.

The profitable candidate could have a powerful educational observe document, together with expertise in designing, finishing up, analysing, and decoding video observations and related quantitative knowledge. Expertise with any of the next matters and approaches shall be a powerful benefit:

• Boris, DataVyu, or comparable video coding software program
• Staff management
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• Cross-cultural research, esp. multi-sited collaborations
• Superior statistical evaluation abilities, esp. relational occasion modelling

Nevertheless, we don’t essentially count on candidates to have expertise in all of those, and we are able to present coaching as wanted on these that are unfamiliar.

You’ll report back to Dr Sheina Lew-Levy because the PI on the grant. Additionally, you will be supported by Dr Bruce Rawlings as a Co-I on the grant.

This put up is mounted time period for 30 months. The funding is on the market from 1st January 2025 for this mounted interval solely.