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Leverhulme MPhil/PhD Studentships 2012. UCL Anthropology is offering two MPhil/PhD studentships (3 years) on the Leverhulme funded project “Hunter-gatherers resilience: Past, present and future adaptations to a world in transition”, to begin by 1 March 2012. Students will work on the behavioural ecology of Agta hunter-gatherers in the Philippines focusing on patterns of demography, life history, food sharing, cooperation, mobility, kin structure, cultural transmission and biological adaptations. It is expected that the student will spend at least 6 months living in the field and will have strong interest in fieldwork, collecting the necessary data for the PhD as well as saliva samples for future genetic analyses. Students will have the possibility to work with genetic analyses if interested. We are particularly interested in candidates with background in one or more of the following: behavioural ecology, evolutionary demography, demographic modelling, hunter-gatherer studies, life history theory applied to human populations and/or phylogenetic analyses. The selected candidates must hold a degree in Biological Anthropology, Evolutionary Biology, Genetics or similar fields and ideally will have previous experience fieldwork and multilevel statistical analyses. Informal enquiries can be sent to Dr Andrea Migliano, a.migliano@ucl.ac.uk. Deadline for submission of the completed UCL admissions application and statement of intent to apply for the specific Leverhulme award at UCL Anthropology: 10 February 2012. Apply online.
Lecturer In Psychology, University of Portsmouth - Faculty of Science, Department of Psychology. Salary: £31,948 - £34,895; Reference: 10003841; Closing date: 3rd February 2012. We seek a highly motivated and collegial individual to further enhance one or both of our research strengths in Situated Action and Communication and Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology. For further details see our website.
The Food Studies program and the Institute for Advanced Study at Indiana University are pleased to announce a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Food Studies sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through their Sawyer Seminar program. One Fellow will be selected on the basis of accomplishment, promise of excellence, and relevance of their research and interests to the 2012-13 seminar theme: Food Choice, Freedom, and Politics. (See our website below for more information on the seminar theme and plans.) The postdoctoral fellow will assist the seminar organizers in planning, and will then participate in, a year-long seminar on food choice, decisions, and diet, which will involve scholars from a wide variety of disciplines. The seminar is aimed at provoking new thinking about how “choice” is conceptualized in different scholarly traditions and how these different perspectives can promote understanding about food behavior. The fields will include economics and psychology where the focus is the individual, cultural anthropology, and sociology, which embed choice in cultural, social, and ethnic collectivities, and biological anthropology and evolutionary psychology, which seek an underlying adaptive basis for food preferences. The postdoctoral fellow will also assist in planning two conferences associated with the seminar, one on emerging models for interdisciplinary food studies, and the other on translating food choice research into public policy. Both will include experts in food studies from around the world. The fellow will also have time to pursue his or her own research and writing projects, and should describe these research goals and how they connect with the rich community of food scholars at IU in the letter of application. Fellowship begins 1 July 2012. Eligibility: Ph.D. between 1 July 2008 and 30 May 2012. Compensation: $46,000 plus full benefits. Application Deadline: January 31, 2012
The Department of Psychology at Knox College invites applications for a tenure-track appointment as assistant professor in Health Psychology/Behavioral Medicine beginning September 2012. Applicants should have a Ph.D. or be very near completion of the degree at the time of appointment. A commitment to quality undergraduate teaching coupled with a desire to maintain an active research program is essential. The successful candidate will teach classes in health psychology/behavioral medicine, upper and lower level classes in her/his specialty, statistics and research methods, and introduction to psychology, as well as supervise student research projects. We welcome any type of research sub-specialty that applies psychology to physical health and/or the practice of medicine. The psychology department has a human psycho-physiological laboratory, excellent small-animal research facilities, and an observational lab for clinical/developmental work. The department offers a collegial atmosphere and is strongly committed to collaborative student-faculty research, with many of our students regularly being accepted at top graduate programs in psychology and related fields. Please see our website (http://departments.knox.edu/psychdept/) for further information. The salary for the position is competitive and start-up funds will be available. Review of applications will begin after January 15th and the search will continue until the position is filled. Send curriculum vitae, statement on teaching, no more than three reprints, and three letters of reference to: Frank McAndrew, Department of Psychology, Knox College, Galesburg, IL 61401-4999. Founded in 1837, Knox is an independent, residential, co-educational four-year liberal arts college, offering the B.A. degree in 39 majors and 46 minors and enrolling 1400 students from 47 states and 48 countries. In keeping with its long-standing commitment to equal rights, Knox College particularly welcomes applications from women and members of other under-represented groups.