Senior Research Associate

Applications are invited for a Senior Research Associate to join the Embodied Cognition Lab at Lancaster University on a Leverhulme Trust funded project investigating the sensorimotor basis of concepts, supervised by Dr. Dermot Lynott and Dr. Louise Connell.

The project will involve setting up and running online studies (e.g., using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk) and lab-based experiments, followed by extensive statistical analysis of latent structure in the data. You will be required to prepare linguistic materials for data collection, analyse large-scale datasets, and collaborate in writing papers for publication.  

You should have excellent technical skills, with expertise in at least one of the key project methods: psycholinguistic experimentation, megastudy dataset generation, and/or data mining. Demonstrable research experience in the area of embodied cognition and/or categorical structure in semantic memory will be an advantage.

The starting date for the position is 1 April, 2016.

Informal enquiries regarding this post are welcome and should be directed to Dr. Dermot Lynott (d.lynott@lancaster.ac.uk)

Fixed-term: Funding for this post is available for up to 2 years and is not renewable.

The Department of Psychology provides a research environment that strongly supports the individual needs of each employee, promoting a healthy work-life balance. We are committed to family-friendly and flexible working policies on an individual basis, as well as the Athena SWAN Charter, which recognises and celebrates good employment practice undertaken to address gender equality in higher education and research.

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The Department of Psychology at Lancaster has a core complement of 36 members of academic staff, including two Teaching Associates, and a thriving community of post-doctoral researchers and PhD students. The Department is well resourced with numerous facilities of relevance to these research areas, including specialist laboratories, housing video observation and editing suites, eye-tracking and EEG labs, plus several other resources. 

Lancaster University is a top 10 UK University. The quality of the Department’s international research is mirrored by the quality of its teaching (e.g., The Daily Telegraph currently features Lancaster as a top-10 UK undergraduate psychology course). The Department’s undergraduate provision and community is thriving and the postgraduate provision includes ESRC-recognised PhD and Masters programmes.

We welcome applications from people in all diversity groups.

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