澳大利亚麦考瑞大学博士后职位—评估神经发散的听力表现

澳大利亚麦考瑞大学博士后职位—评估神经发散的听力表现

麦考瑞大学（Macquarie University）是以拥有“The Father of Australia”之称的拉克伦·麦夸里（Lachlan Macquarie）总督命名，建于1964年，是位于澳大利亚新南威尔士州悉尼市的一所公立研究型大学，位于麦考瑞公园（Macquarie Park），是悉尼大都市地区设立的第三所大学，英联邦大学协会成员，澳大利亚最富进取精神的大学之一，它也是全澳第一所开设精算课程的大学。开设的一系列领先的跨学科课程，致力于培养学生成为有创造力、富有国际化思维、推动世界进步与发展的人才。

Postdoctoral Fellow in Assessing Listening Performance in Neurodivergence

Macquarie University

PRIMARY DETAIL

We are seeking an exceptional Researcher, with a strong and growing track record in human neuroscience and neuropsychology, to support an exciting new research project that aims to understand listening in neurodivergent populations. We encourage and welcome neurodivergent people or people with lived experience to apply.

THE ROLE

Salary Package: Postdoctoral Fellow (Level A) from ) $81,581 – $109,852 per annum, plus 17% employer's superannuation and annual leave loading. Pro-rata rates apply for part-time appointments.

Appointment type: Full-time, fixed-term position for 2 years

Macquarie University (Wallumattagal Campus, North Ryde)

BACKGROUND

Listening is essential to understanding. Without it, sound is meaningless—a wash of noise and reflections from competing sources. Humans navigate an astonishing range of soundscapes and listening spaces with remarkable ease, surpassing even the most advanced technologies, but it is not obvious how we do this. This lack of fundamental knowledge shackles the performance of the many listening algorithms and devices available today and limits their potential to support our communication needs in an increasingly noisy world. This is particularly so for otherwise “normal” hearing individuals who have challenges with speech comprehension in background noise and who often struggle to parse complex listening environments; autistic people, those diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD), and the increasing number of adults reporting ‘hidden hearing loss, for example, challenges with speech-in-noise despite passing ‘pin-drop hearing' assessments. For these individuals and others, understanding the neural bases of listening and developing new technologies and approaches to enhance listening experience and reduce listening fatigue and frustration offers an avenue back to a rich and rewarding communicative life.

THE ROLE

A 2-year postdoctoral position is available to work with world-leading researchers to understand listening performance in neurodivergent people. The project will employ qualitative, subjective, and objective assessments of listening performance in human listeners through face-to-face and online assessments, and human experiential and behavioural assessments of sound. To enrich our research process, our work takes a participatory approach and is co-produced with the autism and neurodivergent communities.

ABOUT US

MU Hearing is a university-wide initiative and community, which aims to be a world-leading research centre in hearing health using a multidisciplinary and community-engaged approach to solving major hearing and listening issues that translate into measurable and impactful change.

The Neurodiversity Program of MU Hearing has the broad primary goal of exploring listening and the listening brain in neurodivergent groups including those with autism, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, and acquired listening conditions resulting from, for example, exposure to loud sounds. By developing a holistic model of listening, from biophysical processes to behaviours, we will:

understand communication challenges experienced by neurodivergent listeners develop new strategies tailored to an individual listener's needs bridge performance gap between current and future listening technologies and supports Provide a framework for exploring how humans experience the sensory world through sound

To Apply

To be considered for this position applicants are asked to provide a cover letter addressing the selection criteria below and attach their curriculum vitae (including contact information for three referees) as part of the application process.

Required qualification and experience

PhD in Neuroscience, Neuropsychology, or Psychology

Good track record of research evidence by publications and presentations at international conferences

Proficient in statistical methods

Desirable Experience

Lived experience of autism or other neurodivergent condition

Experience with audio signals or other perceptual processing

Programming experience (Matlab, Python or other scientific programming).

Specific Role Enquiries: Distinguished Professor David McAlpine david.mcalpine@mq.edu.au Applications Close: Sunday, 16 June 2024 at 11.55 pm

If you're already part of the Macquarie Group (MQ University, U@MQ, MQ Health, MGSM), you'll need to apply through your employee Workday account. To apply for this job: Login to Workday and go to the Careers App > Find Jobs.

Applications Close:

16/06/2024 11:59 PM

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