Research Associate / Senior Research Associate In Visual Neurophysiology (Eye Tracking)

University Of Bristol; England; Presencial; GBP 34.000 - 45.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

University of Bristol is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Assistant or Senior Research Associate to support a randomised trial of a therapeutic eye-movement app for children. The role involves eye-tracking using Eyelink Duo, data analysis in Matlab/PsychToolbox, and day-to-day trial coordination within the Eye Hospital team.

Experience with pediatric eye-tracking, data processing, and preparing study reports is essential.

Formación

• Experience with eye-tracking in pediatric populations.
• Ability to manage data quality and standardization across participants.
• Experience using Matlab and PsychToolbox for test setup and data processing.

Responsabilidades

• Eye-tracking children taking part in the EyeTrain study with clinicians.
• Support and train clinical staff on how to eye track children and troubleshoot issues.
• Manage data quality control to ensure standardisation across testers.
• Design and manage preliminary data processing for eye-tracking data.
• Draft sections of study reports for funder and results papers.

Conocimientos

Eye-tracking

Data quality

Statistical analysis

Lab coordination

Communication

Educación

PhD in related subject

Postgraduate degree

Herramientas

Matlab

PsychToolbox

Eyelink Eyetracker

Descripción del empleo

The role

This is a fixed-term post providing maternity leave cover for a Postdoctoral research assistant who is running a randomised trial of a novel therapeutic app for children, designed to improve eye movement control. The trial relies on using an Eyetracker to assess the primary outcome and the postholder will need experience of using an Eyelink Eyetracker to test children, including children with additional needs; of using Matlab and PsychToolbox to set up the tests and of analysis of Eyelink data. The postholder will also need to assist the PI in preparing the study documents and in the day-to-day running of the trial. The postholder will work closely with the PI, the co-lead Professor Iain Gilchrist and the Clinical Research Unit team at the Eye Hospital.

The post is available at either Research Associate or Senior Research Associate level.

Some days in Eye hospital are essential for testing trial participants.

What will you be doing?

Research Responsibilities will include:

• Eye-tracking children taking part in the EyeTrain study, alongside clinicians
• Supporting and training clinical staff on how to eye track the children and to troubleshoot any problems as they arise
• Managing data quality control to ensure everyone eye tracking the children are working to the same standard and identifying any problems
• Designing and managing preliminary data processing for the eye tracking data
• Drafting sections of study report for the funder and results papers

You should apply if

You have experience using an Eyelink Duo to test children.

You have a postgraduate research degree (PhD) in a related subject or are near to submission of such a degree.