瑞典隆德大学博士后职位招聘–心理语言学、认知语言学或同源领域

Work duties and areas of responsibility

Applications for this postdoc position are welcome from excellent candidates in the areas of psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, or cognate fields (e.g. cognitive/experimental psychology). You will readily fit in an existing programme of research looking at the effects of language-specific categories on cognitive representation and processing. The main project will focus on comprehension of spatiotemporal metaphors and time perception, developing further the research published in these papers: 

• The Whorfian time warp: Representing duration through the language hourglass
• Cognitive restructuring: Psychophysical measurement of time perception in bilinguals

You are expected to:

• design, develop and program laboratory experiments in language and cognition.
• coordinate data collection in a timely manner.
• process, prepare, and statistically analyse data.
• draft reports on results.
• conduct literature surveys as required.
• contribute to publications both as lead author and as co-author.
• contribute to the project’s seminars, meetings, workshops and other activities.
• establish and maintain training and contact with Lund University Humanities Lab.
• contribute to and develop the research environment in the area of language and cognition at the Centre for Language and Literature at Lund University.
• assist in the write-up of a joint application for further funding.

Please feel free to send questions about the duties involved in this post to Professor Athanasopoulos (link above).

Qualification requirements:

• The candidate most likely to be considered for the post is one who has completed a doctoral degree no more than three years prior to the application deadline. 
• Documented capacity to independently design, develop, and execute psycholinguistic experiments.
• Documented experience of research in the field of psycholinguistics (or related area).
• Good cooperative skills and a strong collaborative approach to research.
• Full proficiency in English.

Assessment criteria

The main criterion for a postdoctoral fellowship is research expertise. Only applicants whose expertise and previous work could strengthen the research team and the project as a whole will be considered for the position of postdoc.

Desirable qualifications (in order of importance)

• Experience with experiment generating software (e.g. PsychoPy), and statistical models (e.g. linear mixed-effects) and packages (e.g. R).
• Documented ability to develop and carry out research of high international quality in relevant research fields, and to obtain external research funding, commensurate to career stage.
• Proven track record of dissemination in relevant contexts (e.g. international high-quality journals, major conference presentations, invited talks, etc.).
• Good working knowledge of Swedish.

How to apply

To apply, please click on the ‘Apply’ button above. Your application should be written in English and must contain the following:

• A CV and copy of the Ph.D. degree.
• A list of publications (including DOI, ISBN or ISSN numbers).
• A cover letter of no more than 1500 words making the case for how you fulfil the qualification requirements and (where applicable) the desirable qualifications of the post.
• Two publications, one of which can be the PhD thesis and the other a peer reviewed paper in an international journal.