[visionlist] FW: fully funded PhD studentship at York Developmental Social Neuroscience lab

[Quoc Vuong]

Dear all

Please find below information for a funded PhD position at the University of York (UK). This is an exciting opportunity to investigate the development of infants’ neural processing of facial and vocal emotional expressions.


Thanks,
Quoc.

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From: Elena Geangu [mailto:elena.geangu at york.ac.uk]
Subject: fully funded PhD studentship at York Developmental Social Neuroscience lab

Dear all,
there is a fully funded PhD studentship in my lab, to begin in the academic year 2020/2021. More information can be found here<https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/infant-processing-of-emotion-expressions-in-the-context-of-their-own-affective-states/?p115903&fbclid=IwAR22yOLc76NUzDA9ctUAcUCy183ImMX1FyNMz4J25ykPwvg9H3WtPczhMPM> or below.
If you could disseminate to those interested, it would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks
Elena

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Elena Geangu, PhD

Assistant Professor

Psychology Department (room: B003)
University of York
Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK

Email: elena.geangu at york.ac.uk<mailto:elena.geangu at york.ac.uk>
Phone: 01904322865
Lab webpage <https://emodevlab.com>

Project Description
Position Details
Applications are invited to apply for one Department of Psychology, University of York funded PhD studentship under the supervision of Dr. Elena Geangu. The position starts on September 28th, 2020 and will be fully funded.

The department of Psychology is among the world’s top psychology departments, excelling in both teaching and research. We pride ourselves in providing a supportive and vibrant learning environment, which offers our students every opportunity to meet their personal development goals.

Project Background
Inferring people’s emotions from the expressions of their faces and voices is a major developmental challenge that children have to master. The existent evidence converges to suggest that infants develop the ability to process emotion expressions in a rather short period of time after birth. Less is known, however, about the processes through which infants develop this ability. This project investigates the proposal that infants’ own emotions and how well they are able to regulate them influences how they attend to and process the information around them, including emotional expressions.

For further information and some recent publications on the topic, please check out https://pure.york.ac.uk/portal/en/researchers/elena-geangu(eaf33650-b423-45c5-b5ea-de02eb3f1c83).html<https://www.findaphd.com/common/clickCount.aspx?theid=115903&type=184&DID=1607&url=https%3a%2f%2fpure.york.ac.uk%2fportal%2fen%2fresearchers%2felena-geangu(eaf33650-b423-45c5-b5ea-de02eb3f1c83).html>.

PhD position
The PhD candidate will focus on:
- establishing the role of emotional reactivity and regulation for the development of emotion expression processing in infancy
- investigating the effect of emotion regulation development on infants’ neural responses to people’s emotion expressions

Some of the key questions of the PhD project:
- How does the increased arousal elicited by different common life events influence infants’ neural sensitivity to emotion vocal and facial expressions?
- How do the characteristics of infants’ emotional reactivity at different points during the first two years of life influence parents’ behavioural responses and their emotional expressivity?

The PhD candidate will be responsible for all aspects of the research project, that is for designing experiments, conducting behavioral and neuroimaging experiments, data analysis, and the dissemination of results.

Requirements
Essential requirements:
- Strong 2.1 BSc (Hons) or equivalent degree in psychology, (cognitive) neuroscience, or a related discipline
- Solid knowledge of statistical methods
- Experience with empirical work in psychology and/or (cognitive) neuroscience
- High motivation and strong interest in the topics of developmental social neuroscience
- Strong writing and communication skills

Desirable requirements:
- Knowledge in Matlab coding (or a related language)
- Experience in running EEG, psychophysiology, and behavioral experiments with young children and infants
- Training or practical experience in analyzing EEG, psychophysiology, and behavioral data
- Knowledge of advanced EEG and psychophysiology analysis techniques

Applications
Candidates should initially show their interest apply by contacting Dr. Elena Geangu (elena.geangu at york.ac.uk<mailto:elena.geangu at york.ac.uk>) prior to sending a full application.

If after contacting Dr. Geangu a candidate wishes to pursue an application, please complete the application process on the University of York website link below.

The deadline for applications is on January 13th, 2020 with interviews to be held on February 13th, 2020.
Funding Notes

Funding for this position covers: (1) home/EU fees and (2) £15,096 stipend each year in return for 100 hours teaching without additional payment. Overseas students are welcome to apply but must make up the difference in fees between home and overseas rates.
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