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 analysis
Design 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 tasks
Assist with data coding of video and audio data for behavioural analysis of parent-infant social interaction and synchrony
Assist with graduate and undergraduate research student projects
Provide other administrative and research support to the PI where necessary
Job Requirements:
A good Bachelor’s degree (at least second-upper) in Psychology, Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, Medical Sciences or related Technical and Computational fields
Experience with human psychological data collection, working with children (particularly infants) and families
Efficient, organised and self-motivated with the ability to work to tight deadlines
A good team player with strong interpersonal and communication skills
Experience with EEG and/or eye-tracking data collection
Experience working in mental health settings
Skills in programming and/or computational analysis of data
Interest in parent-child social interaction and the development of early cognition
We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
Hiring Institution: NTU
