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Vacancies within Department of Experimental Psychology
There are currently 4 vacancies within Department of Experimental Psychology:
| Title | Closes | Salary |
|---|---|---|
| Finance & Grants Assistant | May 19, 2025, noon | Standard Grade 4: £27,838 - £31,459 per annum |
| Postdoctoral Neuroscientist | May 19, 2025, noon | Research Grade 7: £38,674 to £46,913 per annum |
| Research Assistant | May 19, 2025, noon | Research Grade 6: £34,982-£40,855 per annum |
| Graduate Research Assistant in Neurodiversity and Mathematical Learning | June 10, 2025, noon | Research Grade 6: £34,982-£40,855 per annum (pro-rata, for part-time hours) |
Finance & Grants Assistant
Closes: May 19, 2025, noon; salary: Standard Grade 4: £27,838 - £31,459 per annum
<div> <p></p><div>The University of Oxford is a stimulating work environment which enjoys an international reputation as a world-class centre of excellence. Our research plays a key role in tackling many global challenges, from reducing our carbon emissions to developing vaccines during a pandemic.</div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, highly organised and numerate Finance and Grants Assistant to join the small finance and research grants teams providing financial management services to the Department of Experimental Psychology.</div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>The position is fixed term (maternity leave cover) from 1 July 2025 until 31 January 2026 or the actual return of the substantive post holder, or the resignation of the substantive post holder and employment of a new post holder, whichever is the earliest. It is full-time although part-time (minimum of 30 hours per week) would be considered.</div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>Currently located in the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, we will be moving to the new, purpose-built <a rel="nofollow" href="https://lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/home">Life and Mind Building</a> a multidisciplinary research and teaching facility due to open in the summer 2025.</div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>The successful candidate will be educated to at least GCSE or equivalent, with a financial qualification or experience in a finance administrator or similar role. They will also have experience of working with grants and general ledger. Excellent communication and IT skills, accuracy, and attention to detail are essential requirements as well as a tactful and confidential approach.  Experience of R12 Oracle Financials, knowledge of University financial procedures and experience of working in an academic or research environment would be an advantage.  </div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>What We Offer </div><br> <div>As an employer, we genuinely care about our employees’ wellbeing and this is reflected in the range of benefits that we offer including: </div><br> <div>•               An excellent contributory pension scheme </div><br> <div>•               38 days annual leave </div><br> <div>•               A comprehensive range of childcare services </div><br> <div>•               Family leave schemes </div><br> <div>•               Cycle loan scheme </div><br> <div>•               Discounted bus travel and Season Ticket travel loans </div><br> <div>•               Membership to a variety of social and sports clubs </div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>Application process </div><br> <div>Only applications received by 12 midday on 19 May 2025 will be considered.  It is anticipated that interviews will be held on 28 May 2025.</div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>Applications for this vacancy are to be made online. You will be required to upload a supporting statement and CV as part of your online application.</div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>To apply for this role and for further details, including the job description and selection criteria, please see the link below.</div> </div>Postdoctoral Neuroscientist
Closes: May 19, 2025, noon; salary: Research Grade 7: £38,674 to £46,913 per annum
<div> <p></p><div>How do Cognitive maps fail? And what can that tell us about the symptoms of psychosis?</div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>Applications are invited for a post-doctoral research associate to work on a Wellcome Trust-funded project investigating mechanisms of cognitive map failures in psychosis.   The post is funded for up to 4 years.</div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>Currently located in the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Experimental Psychology will be moving to the new, purpose-built  <a rel="nofollow" href="https://lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/">Life and Mind Building</a> (LaMB) a multidisciplinary research and teaching facility due to open in the summer of 2025.</div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>This role focuses on investigating how impairments in world and goal models disrupt planning and inference in schizophrenia-related genetic mouse lines. Experiments will involve recording and manipulating prefrontal cortex and hippocampus activity in mice performing a newly developed goal-sequence generalization task. The project will integrate high-density silicon probe recordings, optogenetics, pharmacology and advanced computational tools to analyse neural algorithms, their deficits and their rescue in genetic mouse models.</div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>This project is part of a cross-species, cross-institute collaboration that combines animal research, human neuroimaging of schizophrenia patients, and computational modelling using artificial neural networks. It brings together teams led by Mohamady El-Gaby (Oxford Experimental Psychology), Matthew Nour (Oxford Psychiatry), Rick Adams (UCL), and Maria Eckstein (DeepMind/UC Berkeley), along with collaborators across four continents. The post offers the opportunity to collaborate with researchers from these groups, providing exposure to psychiatry, human neuroscience, and computational science while developing a broad skill set.</div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>The successful candidate will have, or be close to completion of, a PhD in a discipline closely related to neuroscience. With experience in animal behaviour, neural recordings in behaving animals and neurosurgical techniques. They will have experience with analysis of behavioural and neural data, strong quantitative skills and proficiency in programming (e.g. Python) and an excellent academic track record commensurate with career stage. They will also have excellent communication skills, including the ability to write for publication, present research proposals and results, and represent the research group at meetings as well as excellent organisational and record keeping skills.</div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>Informal enquiries about the post can be directed to <a rel="nofollow" href="mailto@mohamady.el-gaby@psy.ox.ac.uk">Mohamady El-Gaby</a> (mohamady.el-gaby@psy.ox.ac.uk).</div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>Only applications received before 12 midday on 19 May 2025 will be accepted.</div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>Applications for this vacancy are to be made online. You will be required to upload a supporting statement (please bullet point how you meet the selection criteria), CV and details of two referees as part of your online application.</div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>We are committed to equality and valuing diversity.</div> </div>Research Assistant
Closes: May 19, 2025, noon; salary: Research Grade 6: £34,982-£40,855 per annum
<div> <p></p><div>How do Cognitive maps fail? And what can that tell us about the symptoms of psychosis?</div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>Applications are invited for a research assistant to join a team working on a Wellcome Trust-funded project investigating mechanisms of cognitive map failures in psychosis. The position is fixed-term and funded for 12 months, with the possibility of renewal.</div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>Currently located in the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Experimental Psychology will be moving to the new, purpose-built <a rel="nofollow" href="https://lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/">Life and Mind Building</a> (LaMB) a multidisciplinary research and teaching facility due to open in the summer of 2025.</div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>The role will be to provide skilled support for lab members on a program of work investigating how impairments in world and goal models disrupt planning and inference in schizophrenia-related genetic mouse lines. Experiments will involve recording and manipulating prefrontal cortex and hippocampus activity in mice performing a newly developed goal-sequence generalization task. The project will integrate high-density silicon probe recordings, optogenetics, pharmacology and advanced computational tools to analyse neural algorithms, their deficits and their rescue in genetic mouse models.</div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>This project is part of a cross-species, cross-institute collaboration that combines animal research, human neuroimaging of schizophrenia patients, and computational modelling using artificial neural networks. It brings together teams led by Mohamady El-Gaby (Oxford Experimental Psychology), Matthew Nour (Oxford Psychiatry), Rick Adams (UCL), and Maria Eckstein (DeepMind/UC Berkeley), along with collaborators across four continents. The post offers the opportunity to collaborate with researchers from these groups, providing exposure to psychiatry, human neuroscience, and computational science.</div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>The successful candidate will be qualified to MSc or equivalent degree level in a relevant discipline (e.g. Neuroscience), and hold a Personal Licence to conduct animal-based scientific work. With experience in mouse behaviour related to learning and memory tasks and flexibility to temporarily adjust working hours; they will have excellent communication, organisational and time management skills and the ability to work collaboratively as part of a team.</div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>Informal enquiries about the post can be directed to <a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:mohamady.el-gaby@psy.ox.ac.uk">Mohamady El-Gaby</a> (mohamady.el-gaby@psy.ox.ac.uk).</div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>Only applications received before 12 midday on 19 May 2025 will be considered.</div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>Applications for this vacancy are to be made online. You will be required to upload a supporting statement (please bullet point how you meet the selection criteria), CV and the details of two referees as part of your online application.</div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>We are committed to equality and valuing diversity.</div> </div>Graduate Research Assistant in Neurodiversity and Mathematical Learning
Closes: June 10, 2025, noon; salary: Research Grade 6: £34,982-£40,855 per annum (pro-rata, for part-time hours)
<div> <p></p><div>We are seeking a graduate researcher or equivalent professional to join an exciting new project at the interface between developmental psychology, education, and neurodiversity. The new team member will join an interdisciplinary longitudinal project that will employ standardised assessments, experimental measures (e.g., child friendly iPad-based assessments, online assessments), and mixed methods to understand cognitive and educational contributors to early mathematical learning for neurodivergent children. Our focus will be three groups of children with genetic conditions diagnosed early in life (Down’s syndrome, fragile X syndrome, or Williams syndrome), to understand both general and specific contributors to good outcomes leading to independence in early numeracy for neurodivergent children. </div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>Currently located in the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Experimental Psychology will be moving to the new, purpose-built <a rel="nofollow" href="https://lifeandmind.web.ox.ac.uk/home">Life and Mind Building</a> a multidisciplinary research and teaching facility due to open in the summer of 2025. </div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>This position will involve joining an extended team connecting the University of Oxford, Surrey University and University College London. You will be jointly responsible (alongside a postdoctoral researcher and a recruitment officer) for visiting and liaising with schools, working with participating children to collect data, and data coding. You will work collaboratively with the extended research team on all dimensions of the project (recruitment, data collection, longitudinal data collection planning, data curation and open science). You will also contribute to report writing, presentations, publications and dissemination to non-academic audiences.</div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>A keen interest in developmental psychology and education are essential, and either a keen interest or prior experience of working with children with genetic conditions and / or intellectual disability and / or neurodiversity would be an advantage. Excellent communication skills, interests in working as part of an interdisciplinary team are essential. The post-holder will be involved in all aspects of the research project, with a particular focus on cognitive and educational assessment, data entry and data analysis. Prior experience of primary school settings in the context of cognitive or educational assessments is essential.</div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>The successful applicant would be principally based in Oxford, working with Prof Gaia Scerif, but they will benefit from being embedded in an extended research team for this project, including co-PIs Prof Emily Farran (University of Surrey) and Prof Jo van Herwegen (University College London). Gaia Scerif is an internationally recognised expert in genetic syndrome, executive function and mathematics. Emily Farran is an internationally recognised expert in genetic syndromes, and the relationship between spatial ability and mathematic. Jo Van Herwegen is an internationally recognised expert in genetic syndromes, educational environments and mathematics.</div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>This is a fixed term post, working either part time at 0.5 FTEs (2.5 day per week) for 12 months, or full time at 1.0 FTEs for 6 months. Other part-time pro rata arrangements might be considered.  </div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>The closing date for applications is midday on Tuesday 10th June 2025.  It is anticipated that interviews will be held in early July. It is hoped the post-holder will be able to start in post on 1st September 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter.</div><br> <div>Applications for this vacancy are to be made online. You will be required to upload a supporting statement and CV as part of your online application. For more details about the role please contact Gaia Scerif (gaia.scerif@psy.ox.ac.uk).</div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>To apply for this role and for further details, including the job description and selection criteria, please see the link below.</div> </div>