Research Assistant, University of Sheffield

Via www.jobs.ac.uk. The Department of Human Communication Sciences (University of Sheffield) has established a reputation for high-quality research and teaching in the field of human communication and its disorders. It maintains links with other university departments nationally and world wide, and received a 4* rating in the 2008 RAE.

The appointee will work on a research project to analyse speech data in relation to sex differences and hormone fluctuations in women. The project objective is to build a data archive to support statistical modelling of speech and related behavioural systems.

Applications are invited from individuals with a postgraduate degree in speech science, phonetics, psychology or a related discipline, and experience working with acoustic analysis of speech. This post is funded by the ESRC for a fixed term of 12 months with an anticipated start date of 1 June 2009. For details on how to apply, please click on the link below; the closing date for applications is 30 April 2009.

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