PhD Student
Tilburg, 5000 LE (Noord-Brabant), 38 hours per week
Tilburg University
Job description
Function title: PhD Student Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences
The PhD project aims to get a better understanding of verbal and non-verbal cues that may signal potential risks for depression in adolscents, and pays special attention to the role of attachment in this. The project builds on a large data set collected in the NWO sponsored TRAILS project (TRacking Adolescents’ Individual Lives’ Study). In this project video-recordings were made of a large number of adolescents (both from high- and low-risk groups for depression), and additional information on personal and social characteristics was collected. Based on this data set, the PhD will perform different kinds of analyses of potential verbal and non-verbal cues to depression. Verbal cues may include the use of self-referential words (“I”, “me”, etc.), use of words with a positive or negative connotation, etc.; non-verbal cues may include subtle changes in the speech or particular facial expressions. Based on an analysis of such cues, computational models will be build that can make automatic predictions about risk factors.
Requirements
Required education/skills:University Graduate
The candidate has a (research) master in Psychology or in Communication- and Information Sciences, and practical experience with doing experiments and with statistical data analyses. The candidate has a strong interest in doing research, excellent writing skills and a good command of English. In addition, since the analyses will be based on a Dutch data-collection, the candidate has a (near) native knowledge of Dutch. A proven interest in non-verbal communication, or in emotion and attachment are considered an advantage.
Job type: Research / Advising
Workfield(s):
- Research trainees, non-tenured lecturers, researchers(Scientific discipline: Behaviour and Society)
Organization
Tilburg University
Faculty of Humanities and Social and Behavioral Sciensces
Tilburg University is a modern, specialized university. Its education and research are of high quality. Students and employees experience Tilburg University as an environment in which they are challenged and inspired. Moreover, it offers excellent fringe benefits and a corporate culture in which commitment and cooperation are central themes
Faculty of Humanities, Department of Communication and Information Sciences.
Research and education of the Department of Communication and Information Sciences is organized around the themes of language technology, human-computer interaction, perception and cognition, business communication and digital media, and discourse studies. The department’s inspiring working environment stimulates its employees to realize their ambitions.
Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Developmental, Clinical and Crosscultural Psychology.
The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences is the second largest faculty of Tilburg University. The faculty has a research school training more than 65 doctoral candidates, and it participates in the interdisciplinary research institutes Tiber, Netspar, Babylon and Intervict. The main objectives of the Clinical Psychology research programme (Attachment, Emotion Regulation and Psychopathology) are: understanding, explaining, developing and testing relevant theoretical models, and, where possible, implementing them into clinical practice.
The Department of Communication and Information Sciences and the Department of Developmental, Clinical and Crosscultural Psychology have an opening for a shared PhD position on “Verbal and Non-verbal cues for Depression-risks in Adolescents”.
Conditions of employment
Estimated maximum salary per month: eur 2000 - 2500
Maximum salary amount in Euro's a month 2558
Employment basis: Temporary for specified period
Duration of the contract: 4 years
Maximum hours per week: 38
Additional Information
Additional information about the vacancy can be obtained from:
Emiel Krahmer
Telephone number: 31 13 4663070
E-mail address: E.J.Krahmer@uvt.nl
Or Marc Swerts
Telephone number: 31 13 4662922
E-mail address: M.G.J.Swerts@uvt.nl
Or additional information can be obtained through one of the following links:
Application
You can apply for this job before 20-04-2008 (dd-mm-yyyy) by sending your application to:
Universiteit van Tilburg
P. van Balen, Human Resources
Postbus 90153
5000 LE Tilburg
E-mail: solliciterenFDL@uvt.nl
When applying for this job always mention the vacancynumber AT 5000812.
Tilburg, 5000 LE (Noord-Brabant), 38 hours per week
Tilburg University
Job description
Function title: PhD Student Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences
The PhD project aims to get a better understanding of verbal and non-verbal cues that may signal potential risks for depression in adolscents, and pays special attention to the role of attachment in this. The project builds on a large data set collected in the NWO sponsored TRAILS project (TRacking Adolescents’ Individual Lives’ Study). In this project video-recordings were made of a large number of adolescents (both from high- and low-risk groups for depression), and additional information on personal and social characteristics was collected. Based on this data set, the PhD will perform different kinds of analyses of potential verbal and non-verbal cues to depression. Verbal cues may include the use of self-referential words (“I”, “me”, etc.), use of words with a positive or negative connotation, etc.; non-verbal cues may include subtle changes in the speech or particular facial expressions. Based on an analysis of such cues, computational models will be build that can make automatic predictions about risk factors.
Requirements
Required education/skills:University Graduate
The candidate has a (research) master in Psychology or in Communication- and Information Sciences, and practical experience with doing experiments and with statistical data analyses. The candidate has a strong interest in doing research, excellent writing skills and a good command of English. In addition, since the analyses will be based on a Dutch data-collection, the candidate has a (near) native knowledge of Dutch. A proven interest in non-verbal communication, or in emotion and attachment are considered an advantage.
Job type: Research / Advising
Workfield(s):
- Research trainees, non-tenured lecturers, researchers(Scientific discipline: Behaviour and Society)
Organization
Tilburg University
Faculty of Humanities and Social and Behavioral Sciensces
Tilburg University is a modern, specialized university. Its education and research are of high quality. Students and employees experience Tilburg University as an environment in which they are challenged and inspired. Moreover, it offers excellent fringe benefits and a corporate culture in which commitment and cooperation are central themes
Faculty of Humanities, Department of Communication and Information Sciences.
Research and education of the Department of Communication and Information Sciences is organized around the themes of language technology, human-computer interaction, perception and cognition, business communication and digital media, and discourse studies. The department’s inspiring working environment stimulates its employees to realize their ambitions.
Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Developmental, Clinical and Crosscultural Psychology.
The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences is the second largest faculty of Tilburg University. The faculty has a research school training more than 65 doctoral candidates, and it participates in the interdisciplinary research institutes Tiber, Netspar, Babylon and Intervict. The main objectives of the Clinical Psychology research programme (Attachment, Emotion Regulation and Psychopathology) are: understanding, explaining, developing and testing relevant theoretical models, and, where possible, implementing them into clinical practice.
The Department of Communication and Information Sciences and the Department of Developmental, Clinical and Crosscultural Psychology have an opening for a shared PhD position on “Verbal and Non-verbal cues for Depression-risks in Adolescents”.
Conditions of employment
Estimated maximum salary per month: eur 2000 - 2500
Maximum salary amount in Euro's a month 2558
Employment basis: Temporary for specified period
Duration of the contract: 4 years
Maximum hours per week: 38
Additional Information
Additional information about the vacancy can be obtained from:
Emiel Krahmer
Telephone number: 31 13 4663070
E-mail address: E.J.Krahmer@uvt.nl
Or Marc Swerts
Telephone number: 31 13 4662922
E-mail address: M.G.J.Swerts@uvt.nl
Or additional information can be obtained through one of the following links:
- About the organization (http://www.tilburguniversity.nl)
- About the function (http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/vacancies/5000812.html)
Application
You can apply for this job before 20-04-2008 (dd-mm-yyyy) by sending your application to:
Universiteit van Tilburg
P. van Balen, Human Resources
Postbus 90153
5000 LE Tilburg
E-mail: solliciterenFDL@uvt.nl
When applying for this job always mention the vacancynumber AT 5000812.
