Job Vacancy: King’s College London, Research Assistant OR Associate (30 months) WP2

Job Description

The post holder will work as part of the Medical Decision Making and Informatics Research Group at Kings

to carry out project tasks, including experimental design, recruitment of participants, data collection, statistical analyses, presentation of findings at conferences and preparation of papers for publication in peer-reviewed journals.

The post is suitable for applicants with a good first degree in Psychology and interest in decision making, who wish to acquire further research experience before starting a PhD. During the project, applicants will have the opportunity (and be strongly encouraged) to develop a PhD proposal, potentially related to the project, to be submitted for further funding.

For the position of Research Assistant, you should have a good first degree in Psychology (at least 2:1) and, preferably, a Masters. You should have good knowledge of experimental design and statistics, demonstrable through your final-year or Masters project.

The post is also suitable for psychology graduates with the type of experience outlined above and with a PhD in a related area (applied cognitive psychology, judgment and decision making) who wish to do postdoctoral research in decision making applied to healthcare.

See http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=8650