PostDoc position

[Kim Plunkett]

University of Oxford
 Department of Experimental Psychology

Applications are invited for a  post-doctoral
research assistants to work on a programme of research concerned with
investigating the nature and causes of language disorders in children.
The project is funded for five years by the Wellcome Trust and aims to
further understanding of developmental language disorders, in terms of
both etiology and cognitive processes.

Details of the research programme can be found on the web-site:
http://www.mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk/personal/dorothy.bishop/wellcome



Post doctoral Research Assistant
Academic-Related Research Staff Grade 1A: Salary stlg15,159 - stlg22,785

Candidates should hold, or expect to hold by the time of appointment,
a doctoral qualification and relevant research background in
connectionist modelling.  The post holder will be responsible for
developing simulations of the effects of  auditory deficits on
language acquisition.  The post holder will work both independently
and as part of an integrated team actively engaged with all stages of
the research process.

For this post quote Reference: RA/dvmb2.  Interviews are planned for
12 August 1998.



Dorothy Bishop
MRC Senior Scientist,
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (formerly Applied Psychology Unit)
15, Chaucer Road,
Cambridge,
UK,
CB2 2EF.


tel: UK:  01223 355294 ex 850
  overseas:  44 1223 355294 ex 850
fax: UK 01223 359062
    overseas: 44 1223 359062

email:   dorothy.bishop at mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk
World Wide Web: http://www.mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk/personal/dorothy.bishop/