University or Organization: Bielefeld University
Department: DFG Collaborative Research Centre 1646 "Linguistic creativity in communication"
Job Location: Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Web Address: https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/linguistik-literaturwissenschaft/forschung/projekte/crc1646
Job Title: Research Position (Postdoc) in Psycholinguistics
Job Rank: Post Doc, Researcher

Specialty Areas: Psycholinguistics; knowledge or willingness to learn open science practices and research data management and research ethics principles, programming, statistics

Required Language(s): English (eng)
German (deu)

Description:

The CRC 1646 is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and investigates linguistic creativity in communication from a range of different perspectives.

The INF project provides advisory and infrastructural support to the SFB researchers in data collection, data management, and open science practices. The INF project researches different aspects of the life cycle of the diverse CRC-related research data (from heterogeneous experimental setups and methods; from language corpora that include written, spoken, and multimodal data as well as annotated data; in various languages; and involving different speaker groups, including vulnerable participants) from legal, ethical, and technical perspectives and models this process in a research data management platform.

Your Tasks

Research tasks (95 %):
- planning of data collection and data processing and implementation of the interdisciplinary research in the INF project (50 %)
- support of the SFB projects in empirical methods, data evaluation and management, as well as CRC-internal training (45 %)
Other tasks (5 %):
- collaboration in the activities of the SFB, participation in the CRC-internal organization and academic self-administration

The employment is conductive to further scientific qualification.

Your Profile

We expect:
- relevant, successfully completed scientific university degree (for example Master or Diploma) in psychology, psycholinguistics, linguistics, sociology, or a related field
- doctoral degree (completed or largely completed by employment date)
- expertise in qualitative research methods, test- and questionnaire construction
- expertise in empirical and quantitative research methods, expertise in data evaluation and statistics
- very good written and spoken English skills
- strong cooperation and team skills
- the ability to take initiative and work independently
- strong organizational and coordination skills
- good communication skills and good presentation skills

Preferred experience and skills:
- knowledge or willingness to learn open science practices and research data management, research ethics principles, programming (e. g., R, Python), statistics (e. g., mixed effects models, Bayesian statistics)
- experience in mentoring
- interest and willingness to work in a larger interdisciplinary research initiative
- basic knowledge of German or willingness to learn German

Further details about the tasks associated with the research position can be found here:
https://uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/3093/research-positions?page_lang=en

Application Deadline: 26-Feb-2024
Mailing Address for Applications:

Web Address for Applications: https://uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/3093/research-positions?page_lang=en
Contact Information:
Dr. Annett Jorschick
Email: [email protected]