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@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