Fwd: EU Marie-Curie Doctoral Project, Language, Cognition and Gender, University of Sussex

[Miriam Meyerhoff]

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> From: Alan Garnham <a.garnham at sussex.ac.uk>
> To: amlap-list at CoLi.Uni-SB.DE
> Sent: Tue, February 2, 2010 4:45:46 PM
> Subject: [AMLaP-list] EU Marie-Curie Doctoral Project, Language, Cognition and Gender, University of Sussex
> 
> Dear All, I would be grateful if you could bring the following  
> opportunity to the attention of any potentially interested people.  
> Starting date, ideally, Apr 1st, 2010, so rather tight.  Applications  
> by Feb 26th.
> 
> Thanks, Alan Garnham
> _____________________________________________________________________________
> Doctoral position within the Marie Curie Initial Training Network  
> Language, Cognition, and Gender
> 
> School of Psychology, University of Sussex
> 
> Doctoral Project: Strategies for overcoming gender stereotypes in  
> cognitive representations
> Abstract: People expect surgeons to be male and nurses to be female.  
> We have previously shown that if someone described as a surgeon is  
> later referred to as “she” (or a nurse as “he”) people’s reading slows  
> down. More recently we have shown that people cannot help succumbing  
> to these violations of stereotypical gender. Even when their attention  
> is drawn to the fact that nurses and surgeons can be either male or  
> female, and are encouraged to respond to questions accordingly, they  
> are still more error prone and slower when decisions about gender  
> conflict with gender stereotypes (Oakhill, Garnham & Reynolds, Memory  
> & Cognition, 2005). However, in the studies we have conducted so far,  
> the readers’ attention was only briefly drawn to the flexibility of  
> gender roles in different occupations, and this was done by  
> instructions prior to the experiment.  We have not yet tried more  
> extensive means of reducing stereotyped responses.  For instance,  
> social psychological work on prejudice and stereotyping shows that  
> making people aware of potential sources of prejudice considerably  
> enhances the chance of controlling them. We intend to explore such  
> training possibilities and to assess their effects using the  
> experimental assessments we have used previously to measure extent of  
> stereotype response.
> 
> Supervisors: Professors Jane Oakhill and Alan Garnham
> 
> Starting Date: 1st April 2010, duration 3 years
> 
> 
> The Marie Curie Initial Training Network on Language, Cognition, and  
> Gender (ITN LCG), funded by the European Commission, comprises 15  
> Doctoral and 3 Postdoctoral projects at 10 Universities in 7 European  
> countries. ITN LCG aims at investigating the interplay of language,  
> cognition, and gender, for the first  time from cross-language and  
> cross-cultural perspectives.
> 
> We are looking for highly motivated candidates with a strong  
> background in Psychology and an excellent command of English to work  
> on the above project within the Network. We expect candidates to have  
> a strong interest in and motivation to work on the interplay of  
> language, cognition, and gender, a willingness to invest in  
> interdisciplinary collaboration, and the ability to work as part of a  
> team.
> 
> ITN LCG fellows’ individual projects will be integrated into one  
> comprehensive research and training network. They will be offered an  
> innovative training in a unique combination of scientific methods that  
> span from neuroimaging and electrophysiology through experimental  
> techniques of cognitive and social psychology to linguistic methods of  
> language analysis and  scientific training strategies.  The network is  
> strongly based on the exchange and transfer of knowledge between  
> academia and public and private organisations and will provide its  
> fellows with network-wide training activities (4 workshops, 3 summer  
> schools, 1 scientific  symposium) and training in collaborative  
> contexts (working visits and secondments).
> 
> The eligibility conditions for recruitment are the following:  
> Candidates can be nationals of any country other than the UK.  
> Candidates must not have resided or carried out their main activity  
> (work, studies, etc) in the UK for more than 12 months in the 3 years  
> immediately  prior to their recruitment. Candidates must be in the  
> first five years (or full-time equivalent) of their careers in research
> 
> PhD students in the Network enjoy full salary employment contracts  
> with all standard benefits.  Supplements, such as travel allowance and  
> career exploratory allowance may be paid.
> 
> How to apply
> 
> Applicants should make a formal application for a doctoral place at  
> The University of Sussex.  Please see http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/publications/pgrad2010 
>   for details.
> 
> This application (in English) should include:
> 
> ·      a letter of motivation detailing the candidate's particular  
> scientific experience,knowledge, competencies and interests;
> 
> ·      a detailed curriculum vitae (including a list of Bachelor’s  
> courses attended and certificates of the examination grades)
> 
> ·      two academic letters of recommendation.
> 
> Closing date for applications 26th February, 2010.
> 
> Further details of the partners and projects that comprise the Network  
> are available from either Jane Oakhill (janeo at sussex.ac.uk) or Alan  
> Garnham (alang at sussex.ac.uk)
> 
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