janet@psych.psy.uq.oz (Janet Wiles) (09/27/89)
THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND Equal Opportunity in Employment is University Policy COGNITIVE SCIENCE LECTURERS (Tenurable or fixed term) Psychology - Computer Science Psychology - Linguistics The University of Queensland is planning a major expansion in research and teaching in Cognitive Science and anticipates appointing two new lecturers subject to availability of funding. The lecturers will be expected to conduct research in an area related to Cognitive Science and to teach undergraduate and postgraduate subjects. We prefer individuals with a computational approach to psychological or linguistic issues such as decision making, grammar, memory, problem solving, semantics, speech perception, vision and other cognitive science areas. One appointee will probably be a neural network or connectionist modeller, the other can have any computational approach. One lectureship will be a joint appointment between Psychology and Computer Science, the other will be either be in Psychology or a joint appointment between Psychology and Linguistics (English). The University of Queensland is one of the major research universities in Australia, and has strong research programs in many areas related to Cognitive Science. Substantial research facilities and support are available. Applicants should have a PhD in a relevant area and should have a record of, or show promise of, conducting high quality research. Salary: $31,258-$40,621 per annum. The appointments will either be tenurable or fixed term. Closing date: October 31, 1989. Ref. No: 43689. Further information is available from Professor S. Schwartz on (07) 3772884 from within Australia or 61-7-3772884 from outside Australia, or from Dr Michael Humphreys via email at mh@psych.psy.uq.oz.au. Please forward an original plus 7 copies of application and resume to the Director, Personnel Services, The University of Queensland, St Lucia 4067, Qld, Australia.