Research Assistant - Clinical & Affective Neuroscience London, England
Job description
About us
The UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences (PALS) is one of the top-rated centres for psychology in the country, both in teaching and research. PALS has been ranked 2nd worldwide for Psychology in the latest Times Higher Education rankings, and in the government’s Research Assessment Exercise. The Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience is a research institute based within PALS.
About the role
This Research Assistant position is an exciting opportunity to join a team led by Prof. Sarah Garfinkel, on a Wellcome funded project. This is a fixed-term role offered for 3 yrs in the first instance with the possibility of an extension. The post-holder will work on a new grant investigating the role of interoception in emotion with application to depression and anxiety. The post-holder will be responsible for helping to set up the experiments (including helping with ethics), data collection and running the study. The successful applicant will be based at the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (ICN) and will work in collaboration with Dr Camilla Nord (CBU, Cambridge) who is co-leading the grant.
About you
A BSc and MSc / MRES in Psychology or Cognitive Neuroscience is essential. You will have experience and an interest in running experiments, with a particular focus on emotion and interoception. Ideally, you will have excellent organisational skills to help co-ordinate and run experiments, under the supervision of Principal Investigators (Garfinkel and Nord) and the rest of the research team. You will be confident in managing participant recruitment and overall efficient running of a series of inter-related experiments, including the secure recording and storing of data.
What we offer
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below: • 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days) • Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme • Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE) • Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan • Immigration loan • Relocation scheme for certain posts • On-Site nursery • On-site gym • Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay • Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service • Discounted medical insurance Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.
