Research Associate (Part Time, Fixed Term)

Applications are invited for a Research Associate post to work in the context of CLIC, the Centre for Learning and Individualised Cognition, https://www.cares.cam.ac.uk/research/clic

The project is for 9 months and part time, working 29.6 hours per week.

The CLIC project aims to better understand executive functions, and in particular cognitive flexibility, how CF can be enhanced through training, and how it relates to social factors such as multilingualism. The CLIC project represents a collaboration between over 20 established researchers at Nanyang Technology University Singapore and the University of Cambridge (Directors Zoe Kourtzi, Cambridge and Annabel Chen, NTU), and has been fully funded by Singapore NRF. PIs from Cambridge are in the Faculty of MMLL (TAL), Psychology, Education, Psychiatry and have research networks across Neuroscience on the one hand and the Language Sciences on the other. The project has just entered the second phase of a 5-year project fully funded by Singapore NRF.

The new Research Associate will contribute to and support work on that project. In particular, they will be asked to advise on and prepare new empirical tasks to measure executive functions, train cognitive flexibility, and in particular measure linguistic phenomena potentially related to cognitive flexibility.

The successful candidate will have completed a PhD thesis in a relevant field (Linguistics, Psychology, Education) by the start date. Preference may be given to applicants with an interest in the relationship between multilingualism and executive functions. It is anticipated that the Research Associate may wish to spend some time developing their PhD for publication. They will contribute to collaborative activities and workshops, and will be encouraged to design and lead events. They may provide occasional research assistance to the PI and will be mentored and supported in their career development by the relevant PIs on the CLIC project.

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 9 months.

Please ensure that you upload your Curriculum Vitae (CV), a covering letter and a research publication list in the Upload section of the online application. If you upload any additional documents which have not been requested, we will not be able to consider these as part of your application.

If you have any questions about this vacancy please contact Henriette Hendriks on [email protected] .  Question on the application process should be directed to the Schools HR team on [email protected] .

The closing date for applications is midnight (GMT) on Sunday 4 February 2024. Interviews are planned for Friday 9 February, subject to change.

Please quote reference GP40185 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

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