The Department of Psychology at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, is offering a job in its Brain and Cognitive Science Research Group. The job is described below. The review of applications has not begun but will shortly. Applications will be accepted until the job is filled. Interested individuals should immediately email the Dean, stating your interest in the position, and send in your application as soon as possible. All that is required is a curriculum vitae and a one page description of a five-year research program.
This opening is an excellent opportunity for an animal behaviourist, especially one interested in waterfowl behaviour. The Brain and Cognitive Science Research Group consists of several very advanced laboratories. One of them is the Avian Behaviour Laboratory. This laboratory is one of the most complete laboratories for studying waterfowl behaviour in North America. It has indoor and outdoor facilities. The indoor component consists of two aviaries, one of which houses wild mallards. Complete facilities to incubate, hatch, brood, and experimentally test waterfowl are available. The outdoor component consists of a field station surrounded by a predator proof fence housing resident flocks of giant Canada geese and mallard ducks. A pond, nesting sites, breeding pens, feeders, and a one- bedroom residence for staff or students are located at the field station.
For information concerning the Avian Behaviour Laboratory contact Dr. Jim Shapiro, Director, Avian Behaviour Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3T 2N2. Email: Shapiro@cc.umanitoba.ca Phone: (204) 474-7422. Fax: 204-257-2081.
University of Manitoba
NSERC Tier II Canada Research Chair in Brain & Cognitive Science
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts
Assistant or Associate Professor – Position Number 06692/06693
The University of Manitoba is seeking applications or nominations for a Canada Research Chair established by the Government of Canada to enable Canadian universities to foster world-class research excellence. The University’s Strategic Research Plan includes a Tier II Chair in the Faculty of Arts in the area of Brain & Cognitive Science.
Candidates must be established scholars with demonstrated potential of becoming world leaders in their research area. The appointment will be a full-time tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor. Rank and salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. For the duration of the CRC, the successful candidate will be granted reduced teaching responsibilities.
A Ph.D. with a successful record of teaching and research relevant to the investigation of cognition and/or neuroscience in either humans or nonhuman animals is required. The successful candidate will develop a research program with a primary focus on relationships between cognitive processes and underlying neurological mechanisms. He or she should have a strong commitment to interdisciplinary research and the ability to attract excellent graduate students.
The Brain & Cognitive Science research group in the Department of Psychology possesses strengths in cognitive and neurological basis of auditory and visual perception and attention, learning and memory, development and aging, and visually-guided motor control. The successful candidate would be able to develop affiliations with researchers in the Department of Psychology with expertise in the areas of Applied Behavioural Analysis, Clinical, Developmental, Social/ Personality, and Quantitative Psychology. Departmental resources include modern animal research and surgery facilities, computer laboratories (as well as supercomputing available through WestGrid [www.westgrid.ca ]), and an optical imaging system. For conducting behavioural research with human participants, the Department also provides access to eye- movement monitoring equipment, an Optotrak infrared motion tracking system, abundant laboratory space for conducting behavioural research with human participants, and a large, web-based undergraduate participant pool. Our department also has a close relationship with the National Research Council’s Institute for Biodiagnostics, which oversees several neuroimaging facilities across Winnipeg.
The University of Manitoba encourages applications from qualified women and men, including members of visible minorities, Aboriginal peoples, and persons with disabilities. Women are particularly encouraged to apply or to be nominated. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.
Applicants should send a curriculum vitae with a brief (1 page) five- year program plan, along with the names, addresses, telephone and fax numbers of three references to:
Dr. Richard Sigurdson, Dean,
Faculty of Arts
310 Fletcher Argue Building
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB R3T5V5
Phone (204) 474-9271, FAX (204) 474-7590
E-mail: Richard_Sigurdson@umanitoba.ca
Nominations or applications, including letters of reference, will be handled in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (Manitoba). Review of applications will begin on January 7, 2008 and will continue until the position is filled. All Chairs are subject to review and final approval by the CRC Secretariat; thus, the starting date for this position will begin after CRC approval.
For details regarding:The CRC program "http://www.chairs.gc.ca/"
The University of Manitoba Strategic Research Plan
"http://www.umanitoba.ca/admin/vp_research/media/strategicplan_current.pdf"
The Department of Psychology "http://www.umanitoba.ca/psychology/"
The City of Winnipeg "http://www.winnipeg.ca/interhom/"
The Province of Manitoba "http://www.gov.mb.ca/"
This opening is an excellent opportunity for an animal behaviourist, especially one interested in waterfowl behaviour. The Brain and Cognitive Science Research Group consists of several very advanced laboratories. One of them is the Avian Behaviour Laboratory. This laboratory is one of the most complete laboratories for studying waterfowl behaviour in North America. It has indoor and outdoor facilities. The indoor component consists of two aviaries, one of which houses wild mallards. Complete facilities to incubate, hatch, brood, and experimentally test waterfowl are available. The outdoor component consists of a field station surrounded by a predator proof fence housing resident flocks of giant Canada geese and mallard ducks. A pond, nesting sites, breeding pens, feeders, and a one- bedroom residence for staff or students are located at the field station.
For information concerning the Avian Behaviour Laboratory contact Dr. Jim Shapiro, Director, Avian Behaviour Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3T 2N2. Email: Shapiro@cc.umanitoba.ca Phone: (204) 474-7422. Fax: 204-257-2081.
University of Manitoba
NSERC Tier II Canada Research Chair in Brain & Cognitive Science
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts
Assistant or Associate Professor – Position Number 06692/06693
The University of Manitoba is seeking applications or nominations for a Canada Research Chair established by the Government of Canada to enable Canadian universities to foster world-class research excellence. The University’s Strategic Research Plan includes a Tier II Chair in the Faculty of Arts in the area of Brain & Cognitive Science.
Candidates must be established scholars with demonstrated potential of becoming world leaders in their research area. The appointment will be a full-time tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor. Rank and salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. For the duration of the CRC, the successful candidate will be granted reduced teaching responsibilities.
A Ph.D. with a successful record of teaching and research relevant to the investigation of cognition and/or neuroscience in either humans or nonhuman animals is required. The successful candidate will develop a research program with a primary focus on relationships between cognitive processes and underlying neurological mechanisms. He or she should have a strong commitment to interdisciplinary research and the ability to attract excellent graduate students.
The Brain & Cognitive Science research group in the Department of Psychology possesses strengths in cognitive and neurological basis of auditory and visual perception and attention, learning and memory, development and aging, and visually-guided motor control. The successful candidate would be able to develop affiliations with researchers in the Department of Psychology with expertise in the areas of Applied Behavioural Analysis, Clinical, Developmental, Social/ Personality, and Quantitative Psychology. Departmental resources include modern animal research and surgery facilities, computer laboratories (as well as supercomputing available through WestGrid [www.westgrid.ca ]), and an optical imaging system. For conducting behavioural research with human participants, the Department also provides access to eye- movement monitoring equipment, an Optotrak infrared motion tracking system, abundant laboratory space for conducting behavioural research with human participants, and a large, web-based undergraduate participant pool. Our department also has a close relationship with the National Research Council’s Institute for Biodiagnostics, which oversees several neuroimaging facilities across Winnipeg.
The University of Manitoba encourages applications from qualified women and men, including members of visible minorities, Aboriginal peoples, and persons with disabilities. Women are particularly encouraged to apply or to be nominated. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.
Applicants should send a curriculum vitae with a brief (1 page) five- year program plan, along with the names, addresses, telephone and fax numbers of three references to:
Dr. Richard Sigurdson, Dean,
Faculty of Arts
310 Fletcher Argue Building
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB R3T5V5
Phone (204) 474-9271, FAX (204) 474-7590
E-mail: Richard_Sigurdson@umanitoba.ca
Nominations or applications, including letters of reference, will be handled in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (Manitoba). Review of applications will begin on January 7, 2008 and will continue until the position is filled. All Chairs are subject to review and final approval by the CRC Secretariat; thus, the starting date for this position will begin after CRC approval.
For details regarding:The CRC program "http://www.chairs.gc.ca/"
The University of Manitoba Strategic Research Plan
"http://www.umanitoba.ca/admin/vp_research/media/strategicplan_current.pdf"
The Department of Psychology "http://www.umanitoba.ca/psychology/"
The City of Winnipeg "http://www.winnipeg.ca/interhom/"
The Province of Manitoba "http://www.gov.mb.ca/"