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<font size="2"><span style="font-weight:600; margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px; outline:0px; vertical-align:baseline; background:transparent">Salary : </span>Ł38,896 per annum<br>

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<font size="2">A Research Fellow position is available to work with Dr Karolina Kluk at the University of Manchester, in collaboration with Dr Steven Bell, Professor David Simpson, Dr Tobias Reichenbach, Dr Ben Lineton , Dr Patric Naylor and Dr James Harte.

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 responses to complex auditory stimuli and especially speech. The project objectives are: 1) Propose, assess, and recommend stimuli to use in assessing hearing performance and access to speech; 2) Propose, assess, and recommend signal processing and analysis

 methods to extract information on access to speech from Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals, using a minimum number of channels necessary; 3) Assess if responses in the EEG to real-world stimuli are sufficiently sensitive and robust (within a reasonable time-duration

 of tests) to provide the foundation for the development of clinical procedures; 4) Propose, assess, and recommend algorithms to optimize hearing aid fitting based on parameters extracted from EEG stimulus responses; 5) Assess the feasibility of using this

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<font size="2">You will be a highly motivated and independent researcher with experience in programming of experiments and analysis of results. With a numerate first degree (or equivalent) covering neuroscience, physical sciences or engineering, you will also

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<font size="2">The School of Psychological Sciences is committed to promoting equality and diversity, including the Athena SWAN charter for promoting women’s careers in STEMM subjects (science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine) in higher education.

 The School received a Silver Award in 2015 for their commitment to the representation of women in the workplace and we particularly welcome applications from women for this post. Appointment will always be made on merit. For further information, please visit <a href="http://www.mhs.manchester.ac.uk/about-us/athena/" style="margin:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline; color:rgb(175,27,0); background:transparent" target="_blank">http://www.mhs.manchester.ac.uk/about-us/athena/</a>.</font></p>

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<div><span style="color:rgb(127,127,127)"><font face="Arial" size="1">Karolina Kluk-de Kort, PhD | Senior Lecturer in Audiology | </font></span><b style="color:rgb(89,89,89); font-family:Arial; font-size:x-small">Manchester Centre for Audiology and Deafness

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