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Research Assistant/Associate (Fixed Term)

Employer: University of Cambridge, Department of Psychology
Location: United Kingdom (GB)
Salary: £26,715 - £30,942 or £32,816 - £40,322
Closing date: Feb 28, 2021

Sector: Graduate School or University
Job Function: Postdoctoral Researcher
Position Type: Full Time
Level: Senior Level

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Research Assistant/Associate (Fixed Term)

Department/Location: Department of Psychology, West Cambridge

Salary: £26,715 - £30,942 or £32,816 - £40,322

Reference: PJ25488

Closing date: 17 February 2021

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available until 30 September 2021 in the first instance.

Once an offer of employment has been accepted, the successful candidate will be required to undergo a basic disclosure (criminal records check) check and a security check.

A Research Assistant/Associate is required for a Wellcome Trust funded research programme. The research programme is led by Professor TW Robbins focusing on "impulsive-compulsive disorders and fronto-striatal systems". The successful candidate is required for experimental studies of brain imaging and cognitive function in healthy volunteers and patients, predominantly with obsessive-compulsive disorder. The successful candidate will be required to maintain databases and be aware of data protection and ethical issues, help in the recruitment and contact with patients, including adolescent cases and healthy volunteers and to liaise effectively with clinician and academic collaborators, other post-doctoral and graduate students and NHS personnel, consultant psychiatrists and GPs associated with this project. They will be required to record and analyse data and to help in the preparation and submission of manuscripts for publication and for presentations at conferences, as well as in funding and ethical applications. The successful candidate will have obtained at least a first degree (BA or BSc) in Psychology, Neuroscience or a cognate discipline. A Master's or PhD degree qualification is desirable. An NHS research passport would also be useful.

Ideally, the candidate will have expertise or training in neuropsychological testing including of patients, and experimental psychology and brain imaging methodology. Although based at the Dept. of Psychology, Downing St Cambridge, the researcher will be required to travel to the Clinical School and possibly to other sites outside Cambridge for cognitive testing of patients.

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The post will start by April 1st 2021 at the Department of Psychology. Informal enquiries are welcomed and should be directed to Professor Trevor Robbins (twr2@cam.ac.uk).

If you have any queries regarding the application process, please contact Fiona Lyall Grant who is responsible for recruitment to this position (hr@psychol.cam.ac.uk).

Please quote reference PJ25488 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.

The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

Please follow the following link to apply online: https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/28482/

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The University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is one of the world’s oldest and most successful Universities, with an outstanding reputation for academic achievement and research. It was ranked first in the 2011 QS World University Rankings and its graduates have won more Nobel Prizes than any other university in the world. The University comprises more than 150 departments, faculties, schools and other institutions, plus a central administration and 31 independent and autonomous colleges. The University and the Colleges are linked in a complex historical relationship. The Colleges are self-governing, separate legal entities which appoint their own staff. They admit students, provide student accommodation and deliver small group teaching (supervisions). The University awards degrees and its faculties and departments provide lectures and seminars for students, determine the syllabi for teaching and conduct research. There is much more information about the University at http://www.cam.ac.uk/univ/works/index.html which we hope you will find helpful. Department of Psychology Psychology has been taught at Cambridge for more than a century. In the late 1870s James Ward proposed a laboratory be established in Cambridge to study psychophysics, the relation between the physical properties of stimuli and experienced sensations. However, it was not until 1912 that the Psychological Laboratory was finally opened. Research and teaching in psychology has gone on to the present day. The Department of Psychology, created in 2012 following the merger of the former Departments of Social and Developmental Psychology and of Experimental Psychology is celebrated for its teaching; students are taught by researchers of international excellence and many past students have gone on to prominent positions in psychology and related fields throughout the world. The Department was given a high score, in the last Research Excellence Framework Exercise conducted by the Higher Education Funding Council for England in 2014. The research staff include university teaching officers (lecturers, readers, and professors), postdoctoral research associates, research assistants, laboratory staff, and graduate students. They conduct psychological and neuroscientific research into topics including sensory perception, attention, memory, language, social and cognitive development, social psychology, psychopathology and psychosocial adjustment, computational models of psychological processes, associative learning, animal cognition and behaviour, and drug addiction. For more details relating to the Department of Psychology: www.psychol.cam.ac.uk For more details about working with us see: https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/work-with-us

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