DURHAM UNIVERSITY: Postdoctoral Analysis Affiliate, Division of Psychology

The Function

A 30-month fixed-term, full time Postdoctoral Analysis affiliate (PDRA) place is obtainable on the Division of Psychology at Durham College. The profitable candidate will be part of the research venture – Age-based imitation bias all through improvement, 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 will probably 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 embody information management, growing a coding scheme & guide, coding movies, coaching and supervising research assistants to code movies, in addition to processing, cleaning, and analyzing information. Additionally, you will liaise with colleagues primarily based within the Republic of the Congo, the U.S., and Scotland. You can be anticipated to jot down up findings for publication and disseminate findings at conferences. The venture is ideally suited to somebody who’s organized, detail-oriented, and who is happy about working as a part of an interdisciplinary crew.

The profitable candidate could have a robust educational monitor file, together with expertise in designing, finishing up, analysing, and decoding video observations and related quantitative information. Expertise with any of the next matters and approaches will probably be a robust benefit:

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

Nevertheless, we don’t essentially anticipate candidates to have expertise in all of those, and we will 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 obtainable from 1st January 2025 for this mounted interval solely.