<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)">
<style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
        {font-family:"Cambria Math";
        panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
        {font-family:Calibri;
        panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
        {font-family:Garamond;
        panose-1:2 2 4 4 3 3 1 1 8 3;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
        {margin:0cm;
        font-size:11.0pt;
        font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
        mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
        {mso-style-priority:99;
        color:#0563C1;
        text-decoration:underline;}
p.MsoPlainText, li.MsoPlainText, div.MsoPlainText
        {mso-style-priority:99;
        mso-style-link:"Plain Text Char";
        margin:0cm;
        font-size:11.0pt;
        font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
        mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}
span.EmailStyle17
        {mso-style-type:personal-compose;
        font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
        color:windowtext;}
span.PlainTextChar
        {mso-style-name:"Plain Text Char";
        mso-style-priority:99;
        mso-style-link:"Plain Text";
        font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
p.Default, li.Default, div.Default
        {mso-style-name:Default;
        margin:0cm;
        text-autospace:none;
        font-size:12.0pt;
        font-family:"Garamond",serif;
        color:black;
        mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}
.MsoChpDefault
        {mso-style-type:export-only;
        font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
        mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}
@page WordSection1
        {size:612.0pt 792.0pt;
        margin:72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt;}
div.WordSection1
        {page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body lang="EN-GB" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap:break-word">
<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="Default" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Applications are invited for a full-time postdoctoral Research Fellow position at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland, UK) to work with Dr Constanze Hesse on a project
 funded by the ESRC (project title: </span><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">“The need for unpleasant touch: behavioural and physiological investigations into negative affective touch and how it can be used to shape interactions”</span></i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">).
 This project is part of a larger </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">international project</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> with collaborators in Germany (Dr Knut Drewing) and France (Dr Rochelle Ackerley) and will be
 conducted in close association with all project partners</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The project aims
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">to investigate how negative affective touch perception (i.e., the “unpleasantness to touch”) influences human actions and behaviour. It combines knowledge and methodology from the fields of haptic perception,
 action control, cognitive and biological psychology as well as physiology. <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The project will provide an excellent opportunity for a highly motivated post-doctoral researcher to work in a productive, collaborative, and research-focused environment.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Closing date for applications is the
</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">15 January 2023.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Please see for further information:
<a href="https://www.abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/research-fellow--508079.html">https://www.abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/research-fellow--508079.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">If you have any informal inquiries, please don’t hesitate to get in touch:
<a href="mailto:c.hesse@abdn.ac.uk">c.hesse@abdn.ac.uk</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Looking forward hearing from you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Constanze. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">-----</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dr. Constanze Hesse</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">School of Psychology</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University of Aberdeen</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">William Guild Building (Room T11)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Aberdeen AB24 3FX</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">United Kingdom</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">phone: +44 (0)1224 273215</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://www.abdn.ac.uk/psychology/people/profiles/c.hesse" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://www.abdn.ac.uk/psychology/people/profiles/c.hesse</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://research.abdn.ac.uk/grasper-lab/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://research.abdn.ac.uk/grasper-lab/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#666666;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Pronouns: she, her, hers</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
<br>
<br>
The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683.<br>
Tha Oilthigh Obar Dheathain na charthannas clàraichte ann an Alba, Àir. SC013683.
</body>
</html>