*Senior Research Assistant/Research Fellow in Clinical Neuroscience*

*Location: *Highfield Campus, University of Southampton, UK *Salary: *£27,854 to £34,223

Full-Time Fixed Term for 4 years *Closing Date: *Saturday 15 June 2013 *Reference: *239213JW

*/English & Romanian Adoptees Brain Imaging Study/*

We are currently inviting applications for a post-doctoral Research Fellowship working on a unique MRC-funded study exploring the long-term effects of early institutional deprivation on the development of brain structure and function.

The role will primarily involve working with young adults to collect and analyse structural and functional MRI data. You will also collect clinical and neurocognitive data using standardised measures/tasks and will work closely with the project supervisors to interpret and write up the results for publication, and prepare presentations for internal and external scientific meetings and reports to our funders.

You will have excellent interpersonal skills and experience of giving presentations and preparing academic papers (and ideally grant applications). You will have a good understanding of the principles of MRI data analysis, and specialist training in either structural or functional MRI analysis (ideally with SPM or FSL). However, further MRI analysis training will be provided. You will have a postgraduate degree in cognitive neuroscience, clinical neuroimaging, or a related subject. A PhD and experience of working with clinical populations would be highly advantageous.

This post will be based in the Developmental Brain-Behaviour Laboratory (DBBL) at the University of Southampton, but you will work closely with colleagues at the Institute of Psychiatry in London. The post will involve significant travel between Southampton and London and you will be expected to work occasionally outside normal office hours and at weekends.

The appointment will also require an enhanced DSB disclosure (similar to Criminal Record Bureau clearance).

The post is tenable from 1st September 2013, or as soon as possible thereafter.

For further details and informal enquiries, please contact Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke at ejb3@southampton.ac.uk mailto:ejb3@southampton.ac.uk or via telephone at +442380 594604.

*The closing date for this position is the 15th June 2013. Please apply through www.jobs.soton.ac.uk http://www.jobs.soton.ac.uk/ or telephone +442380 592421 for an application form. Please quote reference 239213JW on all correspondence. *