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Reference Number:  1946

Location:  Durham City

Faculty/Division:  Science

Grade:  Grade 7

Position Type:  Full Time

Contract Type:  Fixed Term

Salary (£):  30122 - 30122

Closing Date:  1 September 2012

Job Description
Applications are invited for the position of Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Psychology, Durham University. The post is associated with a three-year research project entitled "Hearing the Voice", which is supported by a Strategic Award in the Medical Humanities from the Wellcome Trust. The project will investigate the phenomenon of voice-hearing (hearing a voice in the absence of any speaker). Usually interpreted as a sign of severe mental illness, voice-hearing figures in the experience of a wide range of people, including many who do not seek psychiatric help. The Hearing the Voice project aims to achieve the fullest possible account of this experience by examining it from a range of perspectives including philosophy, literature, theology, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and the medical humanities. The project involves researchers from all three faculties of Durham University, along with clinicians, academics and experts-by-experience from national and international partner institutions.

This post, one of a number associated with the project, will be tenable for three years, from 1st October 2012. Working closely with Dr Charles Fernyhough, the post-holder's principal responsibility will be to conduct empirical research in the phenomenology of inner speech and voice-hearing, including the design of neuroimaging studies, with both nonclinical and clinical samples. The research fellow will produce high quality publications on this research, and will contribute to interdisciplinary outputs on the topic. He/she will also attend a regular project reading group, present papers at project events, and work with several other members of the research team to organize events, co-edit publications, and assist in the development of on-line resources.

This is a fixed-term, three-year post (1st October 2012 to 30th September 2015). It is a full-time position.

Please note that interviews for this post are scheduled to take place on Monday the 10th of September 2012.

For informal enquiries, please contact:
Dr Charles Fernyhough
Durham University
+44 [0]191 334 3243
c.p.fernyhough@durham.ac.uk