Outstanding opportunity for a research associate at UCL in London

[Stuart Rosen <stuart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We seek a post-doctoral research associate for a position in the 
Department of Speech, Hearing & Phonetic Sciences at UCL, working in a 
team with Andy Faulkner, Stuart Rosen and Tim Green. The post-holder 
will be responsible for the running of psychoacoustic and speech 
recognition experiments, and will assist in stimulus and task design, 
and the analysis and write up of data. Testing will be done in normal 
listeners, people with hearing impairment and users of cochlear 
implants. Details follow:

Research Associate (Postdoctoral)
UCL Department / Division: Psychology & Language Sciences
Specific unit / Sub department: Speech Hearing & Phonetic Sciences
Grade: 7
Hours: 36.5
Salary (inclusive of London allowance): £31,778 per annum

Duties and Responsibilities

UCL’s department of Speech Hearing & Phonetic Sciences seeks a 
post-doctoral researcher to contribute to investigations of speech 
perception in hearing-impaired listeners. The post-holder will work 
primarily on an RNID-funded project aimed at identifying the sources of 
benefits that some cochlear implant users obtain from limited residual 
acoustic hearing in their unimplanted ear. Approximately 20% of the 
post-holder’s time will involve working on an MRC-funded project 
investigating the specific causes of the difficulties experienced by 
hearing-impaired listeners in noisy backgrounds. The post-holder will be 
responsible for recruiting and testing participants and maintaining 
datasets, and will assist with stimulus/task preparation and the 
analysis and write up of the results for publication. The post is funded 
for 30 months.

Key Requirements

Applicants will be expected to have completed, or be in the process of 
completing, a PhD in a relevant field. Effective organisational and 
written and verbal communication skills are also essential. Experience 
with any of the following is desirable: working with hearing-impaired 
listeners, conducting psychophysical and speech recognition experiments, 
programming in MATLAB or similar languages.

Further Details

A job description and full person specification can be accessed at
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ACG315/research-associate/

The post is available from 1 April 2011 or as soon as possible 
thereafter and is funded for 30 months.

If you have any queries, please contact Prof S Rosen via email: 
stuart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Stuart Rosen, PhD
Professor of Speech and Hearing Science
Co-director of the UCL Centre for Human Communication
Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
UCL Division of Psychology & Language Sciences
2 Wakefield Street
London WC1N 1PF
England

Tel:   internal x24077
       (+ 44 [0]20) 7679 4077
Admin: (+ 44 [0]20) 7679 4050
Fax:   (+ 44 [0]20) 7679 4238

Email: stuart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Home page: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/stuart

Request an inspection copy of
Signals and Systems for Speech and Hearing, 2nd edition
by Stuart Rosen & Peter Howell
http://info.emeraldinsight.com/promo/signals.htm

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