Postdoctoral Researcher: Toddler Dance & Music Neuroscience

Birkbeck College; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 51,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

31 days paid leave

Flexible working arrangements

Pension scheme

Job summary

Birkbeck College is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to support an ESRC funded project on 'Spontaneous movement to music in toddlers'. The role focuses on understanding how toddlers align movement with sound and its relevance to social cognition and early communication.

The successful candidate will have experience with EEG and motion tracking, and with testing infants or young children, and will work under senior researchers to design protocols, recruit participants, conduct testing,

Qualifications

• Experience with EEG and motion tracking applicable to developmental research.
• Experience testing infants or young children.
• Strong data analysis and experimental design skills.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate in design and piloting of experimental protocols and analysis techniques
• Recruit participants
• Conduct testing
• Preprocess and analyze data
• Lead the write-up of study results

Skills

EEG

Motion tracking

Infants/young children testing

Research design & piloting

Job description

Birkbeck College is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to support an ESRC funded project on 'Spontaneous movement to music in toddlers'. The role focuses on understanding how toddlers align movement with sound and its relevance to social cognition and early communication.

The successful candidate will have experience with EEG and motion tracking, and with testing infants or young children, and will work under senior researchers to design protocols, recruit participants, conduct testing,