I have been asked to circulate the announcement below concerning
permanent and postdoc positions in Birmingham
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Announcing jobs in the School of Psychology (University of Birmingham)
The School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham is one of the
largest and most successful in the UK, currently ranked in the top 5
Schools in the country (REF 2014). We seek candidates in areas that
complement existing strengths within the School and who can extend the
School’s expertise with new methods and approaches. We are particularly
keen to recruit in the areas of lifespan development and mental health.
Additionally we welcome colleagues who bring new methodological
approaches including computational skills, genetics, MEG, MRI, or
qualitative.
The School has recently received major investment from the University.
This includes new accommodation for the entire School, a new Centre for
Human Brain Health to include a new 3T MRI and a new MEG installation,
and a new Chair in Translational Neuroscience that has just been
accepted by Prof Ole Jensen.
Please look in the coming days to the University of Birmingham jobs
website (
http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/jobs/index.aspx) for further
details. Confidential enquiries can be made to Prof Kim Shapiro, Head of
School, hos.psychology(a)contacts.bham.ac.uk, +44 121 414 4930.
Announcing a 5-year Birmingham Research Fellowship
The aim of the Birmingham Fellowship scheme is to give the most
promising early career academics a permanent academic post, the first 5
years of which will be to develop their research and teaching.
Birmingham Fellows will be appointed at the outset to a permanent
academic post, normally at Lecturer grade (entry level academic career
grade); although in exceptional cases appointments may be made at a
higher grade.
The Birmingham Fellows will have 5 years of protected time for
high-quality research. This will allow outstanding, high potential,
early-career researchers of any age to establish themselves as rounded
academics who will go on to make a full and excellent contribution to
research, teaching and academic citizenship. Birmingham Fellows will
also develop their teaching experience, including PhD supervision,
increasing up to a normal teaching load by the fifth year of the
Fellowship. Fellows will not be expected to contribute substantively to
academic administration during the term of their Fellowship.
Fellows will receive a start-up package to support the development of
their research, an academic mentor, and development support in both
research and teaching. Fellows will be part of the Birmingham Fellows
cohort, which will provide them a University-wide network and an
additional source of support and mentoring. For more information please
follow the link below to Life and Environmental Sciences: Human Brain
Health.
http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/excellence/fellows/birmingham-fellows.aspx
Announcing the BRIDGE 3-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
The University of Birmingham and University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign have forged a strategic partnership and are jointly
recruiting for an exciting new fellowship initiative, the
Birmingham-Illinois BRIDGE Fellowship programme, to recruit top
postdoctoral researchers in six identified areas that span the interests
of UoB and Illinois researchers. The successful applicants will have 3
years of protected research time, supplemented by a generous research
allowance. The first and third years will be spent at the University of
Birmingham, with the second year spent at the Beckman Institute
(
http://beckman.illinois.edu ). Following the successful conclusion of a
BRIDGE Fellowship and ensuring the academic achievements are attained at
the required standards, Fellows will be appointed to a permanent
academic post at the University of Birmingham, normally at Lecturer
grade (entry level academic career grade); although in exceptional cases
appointments may be made at a higher grade. The two fellowships relevant
to Psychology in collaboration with the Neurotrauma Unit at the
University’s Medical School are in ‘Cognition & Ageing’, and ‘Brain
Trauma’. Further details can be found at:
www.birminghamillinoisbridge.org/fellows
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