Research Assistant post at University of Oxford

[Victoria Murphy]

Dear info-childes,

Applications are invited for the post of Research Assistant in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, in collaboration with the Department of Education and the Department of Computer Science. The appointee will have expertise in computational linguistics and will work on a research programme entitled “Using the Oxford Children’s Corpus to explore children's literacy development: an inter-disciplinary approach”.

It is hoped that the appointee will be able to take up the post in early January 2014, or as soon as possible thereafter.  The post is full-time and is for 12 months.  Interviews are scheduled for 21st October 2013.
It is expected that the appointee will have an undergraduate qualification in a relevant subject (e.g., Psychology, Computer Science, Linguistics) and a post-graduate qualification to at least Masters-level in a relevant topic.  They will have expertise in analysing large corpora to explore linguistic phenomena.

The appointee is expected to take the lead in delivering the programme of research, working with the Principal Investigators: Professor Kate Nation (Department of Experimental Psychology), Dr. Victoria Murphy (Department of Education) and Professor Stephen Pulman (Department of Computer Science). The Oxford Children’s Corpus is a large, representative corpus of children’s written language, comprising many millions of words, sampled from material written for children (including fiction, curriculum material, websites, magazines) and by children themselves.  It is has been developed by Oxford University Press. This project will use the corpus to examine a variety of lexical phenomena including (a) the identification of features of children’s reading experience that might relate to reading development, in particular, contextual diversity and semantic similarity and (b) the examination of collocation patterns in children’s own writing.

 Further information about the Principal Investigators can be found at their websites:

 Nation:  http://lcd.psy.ox.ac.uk/

Murphy: http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/real/

Pulman: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/stephen.pulman/



For further information is attached and see

http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/jobs/
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Victoria A. Murphy, PhD
Department of Education
University of Oxford
15 Norham Gardens
Oxford, OX2 6PY
Tel:  +44(0)1865 274042
Fax: +44(0)1865 274027


[cid:f603cd94-de60-4fde-adbc-3a5f3672233e at ad.oak.ox.ac.uk]

http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/research/applied-linguistics/r-e-a-l/


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