Research Assistant (Child Developmental Psychology)
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
Permanent
Full-time
2 months ago
The School of Social Sciences invites applications for the position of Research Assistant.The Baby-LINC Singapore Lab (https://blogs.ntu.edu.sg/baby-linc/) is looking for a talented Research Assistant to contribute toward research studies on child development and parent-child interactions. Projects include clinical studies on children of parents with mental disorders such as depression and anxiety, as well as infants at-risk for neurodevelopmental disorders.Key Responsibilities:Perform participant recruitment, data collection and basic data analysisDesign and validate novel affective cognition tasks for infants. Data collected will include the simultaneous collection from parent and infant of multiple data streams including EEG, ECG, eye-tracking, motion tracking, video and audio data, whilst they are engaged in a variety of social interactive and cognitive tasksAssist with data coding of video and audio data for behavioural analysis of parent-infant social interaction and synchronyAssist with graduate and undergraduate research student projectsProvide other administrative and research support to the PI where necessaryJob Requirements:A good Bachelor’s degree (at least second-upper) in Psychology, Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, Medical Sciences or related Technical and Computational fieldsExperience with human psychological data collection, working with children (particularly infants) and familiesEfficient, organised and self-motivated with the ability to work to tight deadlinesA good team player with strong interpersonal and communication skillsExperience with EEG and/or eye-tracking data collectionExperience working in mental health settingsSkills in programming and/or computational analysis of dataInterest in parent-child social interaction and the development of early cognitionWe regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.Hiring Institution: NTU
