Start Date
Immediate
Expiry Date
30 Sep, 25
Salary
46261.0
Posted On
08 Aug, 25
Experience
15 year(s) or above
Remote Job
Yes
Telecommute
Yes
Sponsor Visa
No
Skills
Good communication skills
Industry
Hospital/Health Care
ABOUT US
The Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology undertakes world-leading research and teaching in mental health. It brings together researchers in a range of disciplines such as developmental psychology, clinical psychology, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, health, education, communication, medicine, behaviour and development. The Department is a vibrant environment for both study and research. UCL is the top-ranked university in the UK for research in Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience. You will work in a collaborative team where early career researchers’ career development is proactively supported.
ABOUT YOU
We are looking for an organised, interpersonally skilled individual with a PhD in Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience or similar field. The candidate should have excellent skills in experimental task design, programming, multivariate statistics and scientific writing, as well as some background in mental health research.
If you have any queries about the role, or if you need reasonable adjustments or a more accessible format to apply for this job online or have any queries about the application process, please contact pals.hr@ucl.ac.uk
ABOUT THE ROLE
The purpose of this position is to facilitate the first steps in the development of more reliable and sensitive task-based measures of individual differences in cognition and emotion. Together with the project leads and collaborators, a successful candidate will develop reinforcement learning and/or self-control measures in young adults, focusing on adaptive task design optimization, temporally sensitive task administration, and deployment of multilevel modelling to the data. This post offers an ideal stepping stone to an able candidate interested in submitting independent future fellowships and has the potential to yield several publications that will be important to the field.
This is a fixed-term role for 12 months in the first instance. The Salary offered as a Research Fellow at grade 7 is £45,103- £46,261 per annum (inclusive of London allowance), calculate pro-rated amount for part-time hours. Appointment at Grade 7 is dependent upon having been awarded a PhD; if this is not the case, initial appointment will be at Grade 6B (salary £41,833 per annum) with payment at Grade 7 being backdated to the date of final submission of the PhD Thesis.
The advert will close on 31st August 2026 at 23:59 GMT, however, we may close applications early if we receive a high volume of applications. Early application submission is recommended. Interview Date(s) will be scheduled for the period between 15-30 September 2025.
A job description and person specification can be accessed at the bottom of this page.
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:
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