9 November: FYI -- PhD funding (psycholinguistics), CH

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University of Geneva to work on the project ‘The influence of working
memory on syntax: Training effects in children with specific language
impairment and autism’, funded by the Swiss National Science
Foundation.

Responsibilities include:

- Developing material for working memory training,
- Recruiting, training and testing French-speaking children (typically-developing, with SLI and with autism spectrum disorder),
- Analysing the data and writing articles based on the results
- Participating in national and international conferences
- Supervising master’s students in Speech and Language Pathology

Applicants must be (near) native French-speakers and have an MA (or
equivalent degree) in psycholinguistics, or in Speech and Language
Pathology. Advanced skills in statistics and English are also
required.

The three-year contract begins in February 2016, with a salary of
47'040 CHF before taxes for the first year, which will increase to
reach 50’040 CHF in the third year.

Application procedure: Candidates should send a letter of motivation,
a curriculum vitae with contact and personal details, and a copy of
their MA certificate before 8-Dec-2015 to:

Hélène Delage, helene.delage@unige.ch
Stéphanie Durrleman, stephanie.durrleman@unige.ch
Pascal Zesiger, pascal.zesiger@unige.ch

Application Deadline: 08-Dec-2015

Mailing Address for Applications:
Attn: Dr Hélène Delage
Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Education
Université de Genève - 40 boulevard du Pont d'Arve, 1211 GENEVE 4
Geneva 1211
Switzerland

Contact Information:
Dr Stephanie Durrleman
stephanie.durrleman@unige.ch

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