Job Description

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UE07 37099-44263

College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine/Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences/Salvesen Mindroom Research Centre

Fixed term from 1 December 2023 until November 2024

Full time: 35 hours per week

1 Post

We are looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join our team to design and conduct innovative analyses of interactions between autistic and non-autistic people.

This post is full-time (35 hours per week), however, we are open to considering flexible working patterns. We are also open to considering requests for hybrid working (on a non-contractual basis) that combines a mix of remote and regular on-campus working.

The Opportunity:

The Postdoctoral Researcher will be responsible for designing and conducting innovative analyses of video interactions between autistic pairs, non-autistic pairs, and pairs of autistic and non-autistic people. This is part of an interactional collaborative study with data collected from the UK and US. The Postdoctoral Researcher will also contribute to dissemination of results at conferences and in journal publications.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• The ability to generate exploratory or hypothesis-driven analysis plans, informed by the research literature and suitable for the available data types
• The ability to conduct innovative analyses for examining interactions between autistic and non-autistic people using video data
• The ability to write publications including conference abstracts and academic articles.
• The ability to liaise closely with other members of the research team across sites
• Problem solving and organisational skills.

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As part of this application you will be required to submit a one page document outlining how you meet the essential criteria, as outlined on the job description.

The Salvesen Mindroom Research Centre is an exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success.

You will be part of a progressive and innovative replication study in autism. You will have the opportunity to work on an exciting dataset created as part of an international replication study, and the opportunity to be lead author on publications. You will be part of a vibrant research community and an engaged research team. We are excited to be exploring new ways to understand interaction within and between autistic and non-autistic people, and you and your expertise would be welcomed as an important part of our team.

As a valued member of our team you can expect:

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits , staff discounts, , flexible working and much more. Access our for further information and use our to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

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On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

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About Us: As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow\'s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.

About the Team:

The Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences ( ; Director Professor Siddharthan Chandran) is part of Edinburgh Neuroscience and Edinburgh Medical School. CCBS comprises the Divisions of Clinical Neurosciences (Head: Professor Siddharthan Chandran), Psychiatry (Head: Professor Daniel Smith) and Neuroimaging Sciences (Head: Professor Joanna Wardlaw). Our work integrates laboratory science, data science, health informatics and clinical research to study the causes, consequences and treatment of all major neurological and psychiatric disorders. Methodological strengths include neuroimaging, clinical trials, neuropathology, neuropsychiatric genetics and regenerative neurology.

We have 56 Principal Investigators, 70% of whom are NHS clinicians, grounding our work in clinical need and facilitating translation into patient benefit. We produce more than 500 research outputs per year, leading to improved patient care and NHS policy changes, with substantial impact on morbidity and mortality. CCBS researchers attracted \xc2\xa349M in external funding over the last three years and we collaborate globally, leading national and international consortia in neurodegenerative disorders, global mental health, psychiatric conditions, stroke and small vessel disease.

With bases at Edinburgh BioQuarter, Royal Edinburgh Hospital and Western General Hospital, CCBS locations link laboratory and clinical science with informatics, public engagement and commerce to facilitate creative interdisciplinary working. CCBS hosts c.60 postgraduate students, mostly PhDs. We are particularly strong in clinical PhD training, with bespoke funding schemes (e.g. Rowling Scholars), and we host the Wellcome Translational Neuroscience Doctoral Training Programme. Through generous philanthropic support, CCBS has established many specialist research hubs that are expanded by community fundraising and which engage closely with patient groups, policy-makers and public.

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