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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Psychology

Reference Number: 2546

Location: Durham City & Queen's Campus UK

Faculty/Division: Science

Department: Psychology

Grade: Grade 7/8/9

Position Type: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 21 April 2013

Job Description

The Department of Psychology is looking to make 3 academic appointments to further enhance the research profile of the Department of Psychology. In the last RAE 60% of research was rated as 3* (internationally excellent) or 4* (world leading). The Department is innovative and committed to research across a wide range of areas within psychology, including cognition, developmental psychology, cognitive and behavioural neuroscience, social and evolutionary psychology, and perception. Two of these appointments are intended to strengthen our existing research in Developmental Psychology and to contribute to our undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in this area. The third appointment will be in any area but we encourage applicants who will make full use of our excellent research facilities for research in cognitive neuroscience and cognition. These appointments may be made at Lecturer or Senior Lecturer level, as appropriate to the experience and research standing of the appointee.

The Department has a policy of supporting new appointments, and initial teaching and administrative loads are likely to be reduced, particularly if the successful candidates have not previously held a lectureship. The successful candidates will be expected to undertake teaching at both Durham City and at Queen’s Campus, Stockton-on-Tees. This is a requirement of all new appointments.

Requirements

Lecturer

The successful candidates will be expected to develop their own programme of research activities either individually or as part of a research group. The Department will provide mentoring and support where appropriate. The successful candidates will be an enthusiastic teacher and have good management and interpersonal skills, with a willingness to undertake administrative tasks.

Senior Lecturer

The successful candidates will be expected to develop their own programme of research either individually or as part of a research group. The successful candidates will be an enthusiastic teacher and have excellent management and interpersonal skills, with a track record of effective administrative experience sufficient for more senior administrative roles in the Department.

The successful candidates will have made a substantial contribution to their research field, having a well-established publication record and the likelihood of maintaining a strong publication output in the future, coupled with the ability to attract external research funding. There should be evidence of international standing, or the potential to attain international standing.

Responsibilities

Research

• To carry out research of the highest quality appropriate to the level of appointment

• To generate external funding for research projects

Teaching

• To teach courses and give tutorials at all levels within the Department

• The candidates will be expected to supervise project students at undergraduate and master's levels

• To supervise research students

Administration

The candidates will be allocated administrative duties at the discretion of the Head of Department

Person Specification

Lecturer Grade 7 - Essential

• PhD awarded or submitted in Psychology or other relevant discipline

• Publications in peer-reviewed journals

• Commitment to excellence in teaching at all levels

• Potential for attracting external research funding

• Ability to contribute effectively to relevant administrative duties in the Department

• Willingness to gain professional ILT membership

Lecturer Grade 8 - Essential

• PhD in Psychology or other relevant discipline

• Post-doctoral research experience

• Publications in peer-reviewed journals

• Prior experience of teaching at undergraduate level and a commitment to excellence in teaching at all levels

• Potential for attracting external research funding

• Ability to contribute effectively to relevant administrative duties in the Department

• Willingness to gain professional ILT membership

Lecturer Grade 9 - Essential

• PhD in Psychology or other relevant discipline

• Established publication record in peer-reviewed journals

• Substantial prior experience of teaching at undergraduate level and a commitment to excellence in teaching at all levels

• Demonstrate ability to attract and successfully supervise doctoral students

• Demonstrate ability to attract external research funding

• Potential to communicate research and other interests to a wide audience

• Track record of effective administrative experience sufficient for more senior administrative roles in the Department

Additional Information

For further details, please see the Psychology Department website at: http://www.dur.ac.uk/psychology/

Applications are particularly welcome from women and black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic posts in the University. [added 3/22/13]

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Please find below links to the UNSW Jobs website for adverts for positions in Psychology

Professorial level (reference 9290NET): http://www.hr.unsw.edu.au/services/recruitment/jobs/08031315.html

Levels B-D (reference 9289NET): http://www.hr.unsw.edu.au/services/recruitment/jobs/08031318.html

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Job #011.13.M - Research Assistant II

A full-time Research Assistant II position is currently available in Dr. Kent Kiehl’s laboratory at The Mind Research Network in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Bachelor’s degree in Psychology or a related research field required (MA also accepted); pay will be commensurate with experience. All candidates should possess strong interest, and preferably experience, working with incarcerated populations; and should have completed some basic research methods coursework.

Duties include working with a research team on several grant funded studies examining the cognitive and neural systems underlying adolescent and adult psychopathy, substance abuse, and related illnesses. Hires will learn to assess psychopathy via clinical interviews, perform neuropsychological testing and DSM-IV structured interviews, and assist with preparation of grants, ethics proposals, and manuscripts. Clinical assessment training will be provided. This is an excellent opportunity for recent college graduates who are seeking to go onto graduate or medical school. Qualified hires will also receive training in brain imaging (event-related potentials (ERP) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)) data collection and analyses. Position will include access to the MRN Mobile Imaging System that is deployed to local prisons (adolescent and adult male/female facilities).

To apply please visit www.mrn.org jobs and reference job#011.13.M. An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer – M/F/D/V. The Mind Research Network is an independent non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness and brain injury. [added 1/30/13]

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Postdoctoral Position in Sweden

Are you aware of any young researcher or are you that young researcher who would be interested in a postdoctoral position that will offer them new cultural experiences while allowing them to follow their interests and develop a programatic line of research? If this young researcher´s interests are in understanding what role psychopathic traits play in adolescent criminality, read on.

We have openings for a postdoctoral researcher to work with data from two of our longitudinal projects. Using prospective longitudinal data, two primary issues will be examined. One is the makeup of these traits and their development across adolescence. We will examine stability and change, predictors of stability and change, and the different profiles, or patterns, of traits that youths exhibit and how they are related to different types of criminal behavior. The other primary issue is the link to parent and peer relationships. We will examine whether parental behavior might exacerbate or ameliorate the development of these traits or the development of criminality for those who have the traits, whether youths with these traits influence their peers into bullying or harassing others, and whether friendships might act protectively for youths who have these traits. This series of studies will fill a number of significant gaps in the literature on psychopathic traits and criminality in adolescence.

One of our longitudinal projects is “10-to-18,” a 5-wave cohort-sequential study that began in 2001. The study was designed to assess the interactive influences of parents, peers, and individual characteristics on the development of youth criminality. Psychopathic personality traits were measured with a scale we developed (Andershed et al 2002), which is now widely used internationally. At each wave, we assessed all youths from ages 10 to 18 in an entire community (N ≈ 3,100 each year). This study was the first, internationally, to use this “whole community” design. The design gives complete information about adolescents’ peer networks in and outside of school, and allows to study stability, change, and developmental processes across the whole range of adolescence. The study also focused on parenting.

The other longitudinal dataset, “Seven schools,” is a cohort-sequential study of 7-9th-graders in one city. The schools represented relatively good and poor areas of the city. In addition to measures of psychopathic traits and delinquency, the data include numerous measures of good and bad treatment at home, at school, and in the neighborhood. With these two datasets, we are well positioned to contribute to the research areas outlined above.

The postdoc will work with us and the position will extend over one year with the possibility of a second year, given adequate progress toward publications. The working language is English, the salary is competitive, the cost of living is low, health insurance is provided, and we can help you find housing.

Culturally, a postdoc in Sweden can offer many unforgettable experiences, including dancing around the midsummer pole; Santa Lucia, the festival of lights; skating on frozen lakes in the winter; the (almost) midnight daylight in the summer; and the Christmas smorgasbord.

The successful candidate should have excellent data analytic skills, excellent writing skills, and knowledge of the psychopathy area. Only applicants with prior publications in international journals will be considered. The postdoc should be prepared to immerse himself or herself in the research at hand. The successful candidate will work in a developmental psychology research group of about 16 researchers. The group includes senior researchers, junior researchers, and doctoral students. We meet weekly to discuss papers in progress, research ideas, and other issues. The group is rich in theoretical and statistical expertise. The atmosphere is supportive and collegial, and possibilities for collaboration abound.

Depending on your research background, you will work with Henrik Andershed (henrik.andershed@oru.se), Maarten van Zalk (marten.vanzalk@oru.se), Håkan Stattin (hakan.stattin@oru.se), or Lauree Tilton-Weaver (lauree.tilton-weaver@oru.se).

Applications should include: a letter describing your prior training, qualifications, and research interests; a CV with publication list; graduate school transcript; and letters of recommendation from two referees who can address your analytic and writing skills and potential for research productivity.

Send a letter of interest (including a description of your statistical skills –methods/softwares, etc) and CV as soon as possible but lo later than January 28 to Henrik Andershed (henrik.andershed@oru.se), JPS, Örebro university, 701 82 Örebro before.

We have a website where we have given more detailed information about our broader ideas. See www.oru.se/jps/postdoccdr

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Two positions are available (one full-time, one 0.75 FTE) for doctoral-level psychologists to establish and supervise skill-building groups for adolescents and systematic trauma screening in NYC’s locked juvenile detention centers as part of a newly funded National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) grant from the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). These positions are for the four years of the grant period, subject to continuing funding.

The psychologists will be responsible for: (1) training juvenile justice (JJ) counselors and mental health clinicians in leading skill-building groups with detention residents ages 12-18; (2) facilitating the implementation of a skill-building group program across one or both detention centers, which will run 3 group sessions per week in each of several residence halls; (3) co-leading some of these groups as part of the training process; (4) collaborating with an outside trainer to deliver ongoing supervision and consultation to skills group leaders; (5) training JJ staff about the impacts of psychological and emotional trauma on JJ-involved youth and on staff; and ways to more effectively serve traumatized youth; (6) assisting ACS contracted mental health providers in establishing trauma screening as part of their mental health intake procedures; and (7) participating in evaluating the project. The psychologists will work primarily on-site at one or both of NYC’s 2 juvenile locked detention facilities in East New York, Brooklyn; and Mott Haven, Bronx.

The successful candidates will be adept at building strong multidisciplinary working relationships with providers from varied disciplinary and educational backgrounds; be conversant in evidence-based mental health interventions; and have demonstrated ability to work effectively with multiproblem children/adolescents and families. Doctorate in Psychology and New York state license required. Experience with a juvenile justice population is desirable. Bilingual (Spanish/English) preferred. Qualified candidates will be eligible for a clinical faculty appointment within the New York University Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. To apply, please send cv and cover letter to Dr. Alan Elliot, Director of Psychology, Bellevue Hospital Center (alan.elliot@nyumc.org).