Denis Burnham: 4 Positions at MARCS, Sydney, Australia

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Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 18:45:36 +1100
From: Denis Burnham <d.burnham@uws.edu.au>
Subject: 4 Positions

Please note these 4 Positions in our MARCS lab
Denis Burnham
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Four Positions - People with Expertise in:  Psychology, Linguistics,
Computer Science, Speech Science, Signal Processing or Related Areas

1. Post-Doctoral Fellow
2. Research Assistant - Psychology and/or Linguistics
3. Research Assistant -Signal Processing and/or Computing and/or Music
   Technology
4. Doctoral Scholarship
Details below...
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The Macarthur Auditory Research Centre (MARCS) at the University of Western
Sydney, Sydney Australia is seeking 1 postdoctoral fellow, 2 research
assistants, and 1 doctoral student (on a MARCS scholarship). The successful
applicants would join a jolly bunch of researchers working on speech and
music processing in humans and machines. Currently at MARCS we hold 3 large
Australian Research Council grants -  'From speech perception to language
acquisition';  'Speech perception by eye and ear'; 'Auditory Pattern
Processing'; 1 SPIRT grant - 'The song and dance of mother and infant in
health and depression'; and various UWS internal grants.

Details about the MARCS lab and activities can be found at
http://www.uws.edu.au/marcs/. Informal inquiries about all positions are
encouraged and should be directed to Professor Denis Burnham -
d.burnham@uws.edu.au or +61 (2) 9772 6681, who will also supply details of
the application procedures. Applications should be lodged as soon as
possible and before December 24, 2000.

Post-Doctoral Fellow
The postdoctoral fellow will be involved, with Denis Burnham, in the
management of the above mentioned grants at an executive level; involved in
the generation of research grant income, including applying for grants,
talking with industry partners; and will pursue their own research
interests within the specialisations of the MARCS lab. Applicants should
hold a PhD (or be very close to submission or graduation) preferably in
Psychology or Linguistics, and should be interested in pursuing a career in
research. The position is available from January 2001, but for a suitable
applicant the starting date could be delayed until mid-2001. In the first
instance a 12-month contract can be offered with good prospects of
extension beyond this period. Salary Range: $45,388 - $48,722 pa depending
upon qualifications and experience.

Research Assistant - Psychology and/or Linguistics
A full-time research assistant (Level 5 or 6) with at least a good honours
degree in psychology, linguistics, or a related area is required to prepare
speech stimuli, run speech perception experiments with adults and children,
and conduct statistical, acoustic, and phonetic analyses. Knowledge of or
interest in any of the following would be an advantage - speech analysis,
statistical packages, computer programming, music production, music
sampling/sequencing or tone languages. The position is available from
December, 2000. In the first instance a 12-month contract can be offered
with good prospects of extension beyond this period. Salary Range: $33,617
- - $42,022 pa depending upon qualifications and experience.

Research Assistant -Signal Processing and/or Computing and/or Music
Technology
A full-time research assistant (Level 5 or 6) with at least a good honours
degree in signal processing, computer science, speech science, electrical
engineering or a related area is required to prepare speech stimuli,
analyse and synthesise speech, analyse large data sets, run neural net and
modelling applications, and write computer programs (especially in C and
MATLAB environments). Knowledge of or interest in any of the following
would be an advantage - human information processing, music production,
music sampling/sequencing, linguistics/phonetics, statistical analysis, or
tone languages. The position is available from December, 2000. In the first
instance a 12-month contract can be offered with good prospects of
extension beyond this period. Salary Range: $33,617 - $42,022 pa depending
upon qualifications and experience.

Doctoral Scholarship
A 3-year doctoral scholarship is offered for work on speech perception
development, specifically the relative salience of tonal and segmental
information for 6- to 9-month-old infants. The successful candidate will
have a first class or very high IIA Honours degree in Psychology, and an
interest in human development especially in the areas of perception and/or
language. The student should be motivated, diligent and keen to succeed.
Knowledge of or interest in any of the following would be an advantage -
speech perception, speech perception development, child development, infant
studies, linguistics/phonetics, music production, music
sampling/sequencing, or tone languages. The normal stipend, $16,415 pa will
be awarded, and there is the likelihood of some RA work or teaching.
Applications can be considered up until Christmas, 2000, and Commencement
date is early 2001. Potential applicants should contact Denis Burnham and
also consult the web regarding the UWS PhD application procedure.  See
http://www.uws.edu.au/uws/uwsm/admin/StudentCentre/f_forms.html
 'Application for Admission to a Postgraduate Research Program'.


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****NOTE MARCS WEBSITE CHANGE AS AT OCTOBER 19, 2000****
Denis Burnham
Professor of Psychology
Director, Macarthur Auditory Research Centre Sydney
University of Western Sydney Macarthur
PO Box 555, FASS 4B
Campbelltown NSW 2560 Australia

Phone:                  +61 2 9772 6681
Fax:                    +61 2 9772 6736
Lab (MARCS):            +61 2 9772 6560
Email:                  d.burnham@uws.edu.au
web:                    http://www.uws.edu.au/marcs/

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