Postdoc Position: Multimodal Signalling in Face-to-Face Communication at the Donders Centre for Cognition

How do we communicate our intentions to one another in conversational face-to-face interaction? What role do visual bodily signals play in this process, and how do they interact with linguistic and prosodic structures? The Donders Centre for Cognition (PI group of Dr J. Holler) is looking for a post-doctoral researcher to join us on a new collaborative project that seeks answers to these exciting questions.

You will work as part of a collaborative project using corpus analyses to investigate how participants in conversational interaction make their intentions clear through visual signals (using the face, head, gaze and/or hands) in conjunction with linguistic structures and prosody. The project also investigates how the contribution of visual signals, words and prosody are processed during comprehension (using experimental behavioural and EEG paradigms, including interactive settings). You will be involved in both the corpus and the experimental work.

You will be based in Nijmegen, where you will join the Communication in Social Interaction group headed by Dr Judith Holler (www.cosilab.nl), but you will form part of a larger team involving members with different expertise, partly located at different universities. You will be expected to travel to those locations for workshops or research visits.

You will disseminate the project findings through scientific journal articles, presentations at conferences, group and project meetings, as well as through public engagement events and writing for non-academic audiences.

Requirements:

• You should have a PhD in a relevant discipline, such as linguistics, psycholinguistics, or cognitive science.
• You should enjoy working in a team and co-supervising junior scholars, and you have a collaborative, social and open mindset.
• You have knowledge of multimodal conversational interaction, including visual and linguistic conversational behaviour, prosody, and social action/intention communication. Direct research in these domains is an advantage, as is a combination of those skills and experiences.
• You have excellent experimental and advanced statistical skills.
• You have strong communication skills in English, as evidenced by published, high-quality scientific contributions.
• You are able to communicate and collaborate effectively in a team.
• You have excellent time management and organisational skills.
• You are able to work independently and to take initiative, as well as being able to work under guidance when needed.
• You are a native Dutch speaker or highly proficient in Dutch.

Salary Benefits:

• We will give you a temporary employment contract of 4 year(s).
• Your salary within €4.492 and €4.812 (salary scale 11) depends on your previous education and number of years of (relevant) work experience. The amounts in the scale are based on a 38-hour working week.
• You will receive an 8% holiday allowance and an 8,3% end-of-year bonus.
• You will be able to use our Dual Career and Family Support Service. The Dual Career Programme assists your partner via support, tools, and resources to improve their chances of independently finding employment in the Netherlands. Our Family Support Service helps you and your partner feel welcome and at home by providing customised assistance in navigating local facilities, schools, and amenities. Also take a look at our support for international staff page to discover all our services for international employees.
• You will receive extra days off. With full-time employment, you can choose between 30 or 41 days of annual leave instead of the statutory 20.

Work and science require good employment practices. This is reflected in Radboud University's primary and secondary employment conditions. You can make arrangements for the best possible work-life balance with flexible working hours, various leave arrangements and working from home. You are also able to compose part of your employment conditions yourself, for example, exchange income for extra leave days and receive a reimbursement for your sports subscription. And of course, we offer a good pension plan. You are given plenty of room and responsibility to develop your talents and realise your ambitions. Therefore, we provide various training and development schemes.

30.4 hours per week

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