The Department of Educational Psychology at UConn’s Neag School of Education seeks to hire a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate to join its research group in learning sciences and technology.

The scholar will work on a multidisciplinary collaborative team funded by the NIH Science Education Partnership Program and led by Dr. Ido Davidesco at UConn.

This project focuses on developing authentic classroom-based research experiences for high school students. As part of the project, students use innovative, portable brain technologies to learn about their own learning. With support from a scientist, they develop a research question, collect brain and behavioral data, and share their findings with their community (https://wp.nyu.edu/brainwaves/).

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Postdoctoral Research Associate will have the opportunity to learn about advances in educational technology and learning sciences and to contribute to all aspects of the project including co-designing curriculum with teachers, developing content for online and in-person professional development, conducting classroom-based educational research, authoring publications, developing new research grants, and managing research teams.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
* PhD in education, learning sciences, psychology, neuroscience, or a related field
* Research experience relevant to designing and evaluating innovations in school settings
* Demonstrated ability to collaborate successfully on teams and communicate effectively through writing

TO APPLY
Please apply online at:
https://jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/494568/postdoctoral-research-associate

Please direct all inquiries to: ido.davidesco@uconn.edu.

The Goldin-Meadow Laboratory in the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago is seeking a postdoctoral researcher beginning summer or fall 2020 (start date is flexible; but summer is preferred).  The postdoctoral researcher will join a team investigating children’s development of language and reasoning from infancy through adolescence.  The Chicago Language Development Project (LDP) is a longitudinal study of language learning and parent-child interaction following 60 typically developing children from infancy through high school. Data collected includes video of parent-child interaction in the home to capture spontaneous, everyday early language environments in the pre-school period and follow-up data on academic progress. A database of over 1 million transcribed utterances and associated language and gesture coding combined with additional measures of math and academic language provide a unique resource for longitudinal analyses.

The postdoctoral researcher will participate in all aspects of research management, development, and implementation. He/she will oversee design of follow-up surveys of longitudinal research participants, participate in the design of the database and research products that are shared with the broader research community, and complete analyses of longitudinal data.  These analyses could include, for example, looking at the stability of linguistic, interactional, or other characteristics over age, investigating the predictive value of early behaviors on later linguistic and cognitive development or transition to postsecondary schooling and workforce entry.

A doctoral degree is required in psychology, linguistics, cognitive science, or a related field. The ideal candidate will have a background in corpus research and longitudinal analysis, and adequate computation skills (SQL, Python and/or R) with the ability to expand his/her knowledge through this project.

Interested candidates should submit a CV, a cover letter describing their research interests and career goals, and the names and contact information for two references who can be contacted for letters of recommendation.

Please email these materials to:

Susan Goldin-Meadow (sgsg@uchicago.edu) and Kristi Schonwald (kschonwa@uchicago.edu).

The University of Chicago is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity / Disabled / Veterans Employer.  Individuals requiring accommodation call 773-834-7573.

We will be searching for a highly creative postdoctoral fellow for the fall of 2020 to work on our NSF-funded project on early fraction learning at the University of Delaware.  This exciting new 4-year project will explore individual differences in first graders’ informal fraction knowledge and how we can build this knowledge to help children profit from formal instruction.   The fellowship provides a unique opportunity to participate on a project that supports the development of excellent scholars in STEM education and cognitive research. We seek recent doctoral graduates in fields such as math education, educational psychology, cognitive science, and developmental psychology.  PI team:  Nancy Jordan, Nora Newcome and Christina Barbieri.

If you are interested, please contact Professor Nancy C. Jordan at njordan@udel.edu

Nancy C. Jordan
Dean Family Endowed Chair of Education & Professor

201D  Willard Hall
16 W. Main St.
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
302-831-4651

The Child Cognition Center at Tsinghua University (PI: Stella Christie) invites applications for several two-year postdoctoral positions. Our research group aims to understand foundational learning mechanisms for knowledge acquisition. Recent and current works include analogical learning in social cognition, cross-cultural investigations on free and guided play, cross-species comparison on rule learning and analogical abstraction. Researchers joining our group are not bound by specific grants/projects, and are free to establish their research agenda and interests within our broad aim of understanding learning.

The postdoctoral position is a joint position under Tsinghua University’s Department of Psychology and Tsinghua Laboratory for Brain and Intelligence (THBI). THBI is a new, interdisciplinary research institute that brings together researchers from developmental science, computer science and machine learning, behavioral and computational neuroscience, and other related fields. As such, postdoctoral fellows joining our group have great opportunities to interact and collaborate with people from other disciplines. Fellows also have direct access to THBI-owned research facilities such as the 150 m2 (1600 square ft) developmental laboratory and 3000 m2 (32000 square ft) animal facility housing common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus).

Postdoctoral fellows receive salaries and benefits packages that are internationally competitive. Fellows are eligible for a rent-subsidized on-campus apartment. There are ample funds for academic travel and participation in academic activities.

Tsinghua University is routinely ranked number 1 among Chinese universities and in the top 5 in Asia, offering a vibrant research and academic community. The university is located in the northwest of Beijing, which houses several top universities and is a major hub of China’s robust high-tech industry. At the same time, the university offers proximity to nature: it is surrounded by large historical parks and situated only one hour away from the Taihang mountain range.

Applicants should send a CV, a statement of research interests, and contact details for 3 referees (who will be contacted for short-listed candidates) in one PDF document. Include a link to, or attach, up to 3 representative publications or manuscripts. Application materials should be sent to christie@tsinghua.edu.cn; please put Postdoc 2020 Application in the subject line of your email.  Review of applications is ongoing and will continue until positions are filled. For more information on THBI, please visit brain.tsinghua.edu.cn/column/english.

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Stella Christie

The Psychology of Language research group at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen has two positions currently open:

A three-year postdoc position working together with the PI (Nivedita Mani) developing projects related to children’s early word learning. The candidate will be expected to teach courses on Research skills in Psychology and Cognitive Psychology to undergraduate students in Psychology and Biology in German (Deadline: 8.6.2020: More details here:http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/305402.html?cid=14960).

A three-year PhD position in the “Understanding social relationships” Research Training Group examining the extent to which infants selectively attend to different kinds of language input and how such selective attention impacts succesful language learning (Deadline: 30.5.2020: More details here:http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/305402.html?cid=14953). 

Post-Doc in Empirical School- and Classroom Research at Leipzig University

The chair for Empirical School and Classroom Research at Leipzig University is offering a three-year full-time postdoc position. Our team investigates classroom management, teacher attitudes and professional vision using psychological and behavioral research methods. We are a young research group and a successful candidate would have the opportunity to shape our research agenda, as well as the freedom to acquire or contribute new methods. Due to the teaching duties and the organization of data collection, a successful candidate would have to be fluent in German.

Full job description in German can be found here (https://tinyurl.com/y9yxn2r2 ) and I’m happy to answer questions anytime (gregor.kachel@uni-leipzig.de)

Best,

Gregor Kachel