The Department of Language and Linguistics at Essex is seeking to appoint a full-time Lecturer in the field of Psycholinguistics and related areas. The appointed candidate will be responsible for conducting research and delivering teaching in psycholinguistics at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level. The successful candidate will have specialised in an area of psycholinguistics such as first language acquisition, language disorders or language processing. Expertise in related areas such as neurolinguistics will be an added advantage. The candidate should demonstrate excellent research in an area of psycholinguistic research with demonstrable ability to set up and conduct experiments and work with contemporary statistical software such as R. The successful candidate should have a background in linguistically-informed experimental research into any aspect of the acquisition or use of human language with excellent skills in using experimental techniques such as eye-tracking and reaction-time experiments. Apart from teaching and research, the successful candidate will also contribute to the supervision of both MA and PhD students in broader areas of psycholinguistics than their own area of expertise and research.

Essex has a long and proud history of conducting psycholinguistics research with state of the art facilities for psycholinguistics experiments including eye trackers for adults and infants, facilities for response time experiments and a baby lab. There are also university wide facilities offered by the well-equipped EssexLab.

This is a 1.0fte full time permanent post (nominal 36 hours per week). The start date is flexible but the successful candidate should be in post no later than 1st September 2017.

Interviews will be held in the week commencing 20th February 2017.

Salary: £38,896-£46,414 per annum pro rata

Closing date: 31st January 2017

Job pack & how to apply:

https://vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=128877BzWG&WVID=9918109NEm&LANG=USA