[CogSci] Lab coordinator position at the Austin Thought Lab

[Katharine Tillman]

The Austin Thought Lab at the University of Texas at Austin is seeking a
full-time lab manager/coordinator to start in August 2018. Under the
direction of Katharine Tillman, the lab studies interactions between
language, perception, and culture in the mind, including how young children
acquire abstract concepts that go beyond what they can directly observe in
the world. This position involves coordinating data collection and subject
recruitment, designing and running studies with children and adults,
developing and maintaining administrative systems, supervising
undergraduate research assistants, scheduling and record-keeping,
maintaining study protocols and communicating with the Institutional Review
Board, community outreach online and in person, and more. The lab
coordinator will also have opportunities to conduct their own projects, and
to be involved with conference presentations and journal articles. This
position is particularly appropriate to candidates hoping to increase their
research training prior to applying to graduate school.

Necessary qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in cognitive science, psychology, linguistics, computer
science, or a related field.
- Previous research experience
- Experience and comfort communicating with children (2 – 10 years old),
families, and other members of the community
- Ability to write clearly for any audience
- Ability to get tasks done efficiently and independently, and to show
initiative in doing so
- Organized and detail-oriented

Additional preferred qualifications:
- Experience with research methods in developmental science
- Programming skills in R, Python, Matlab, and/or JavaScript/HTML/CSS
- Experience with Qualtrics and/or Amazon Mechanical Turk
- Statistical knowledge
- Experience with or interest in open science best practices (e.g., version
control and data sharing with Git/Github; study pre-registration on Open
Science Framework; writing reproducible research reports in RMarkdown)
- Experience with audio/video editing programs
- Ability to speak multiple languages


For more information, please visit http://www.austinthought.org. Please
contact ktillman at utexas.edu with any questions, and, to apply, please send
a resume, cover letter, and contact information for 2 references.

-- 
Katharine Tillman, PhD
Assistant Professor (starting Sept 2018)
Department of Psychology
The University of Texas at Austin
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