Ref 6581/22, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour & Development

About WesternWestern Sydney University is a modern, forward-thinking, research-led university, located at the heart of Australia ’s fastest-growing and economically significant region, Western Sydney. Boasting 11 campuses – many in Western Sydney CBD locations – and more than 200,000 alumni, 49,500 students and 3,500 staff, the University has 14 Schools with an array of well-designed programs and degrees carefully struc tured to meet the demands of future industry.The University is ranked in the top two per cent of universities worldwide, and as a research leader, over 85 per cent of the University ’s assessed research is rated at ‘World Standard’ or above. About the RoleThe MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development is seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join the Brain Sciences research program at Western Sydney University.This two year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position is funded by an ARC Discovery grant, “Investigating the characteristics of older adults ' conversation behaviour ” awarded to Chief Investigators (CIs) Professor Chris Davis and Professor Jeesun Kim at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, in collaboration with Partner Investigators (PI) Emeritus Professor Valerie Hazan at University College London. This project will investigate the production and perception of naturalistic conversations by young and older adults. In particular, the interest is in probing i...
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