Full-time Postdoctoral position in Linguistics, Speech Therapy, or related areas

We offer a full-time post-doc research position in the "Longitudinal investigation of sibilant articulation development in children: a statistical modeling approach based on instrumental evidence and data mining methods" project funded by National Science Center, Poland. The project aims to develop a statistical model describing the nature and rate of change in improving sibilant articulation based on parameters determined from speech audio and video recordings of preschool children's faces. The project is led by Principal Investigator Zuzanna Miodońska, PhD.

The employment will last 12 months and may be renewed up to a maximum of 36 months. The planned monthly salary is around 8800 PLN gross.

The post-doc is expected to execute the following tasks:

1. Participation in developing the articulation study protocol and measurement station; participation in developing language material from the perspective of phonetic analysis and data mining methods.

2. Participation in preparing and conducting multimodal data registration in a group of preschool children, segmentation, and description of data.

3. Development of guidelines for acoustic and phonetic data analysis, development and conducting speech signal analysis protocols,description of articulation patterns occurring in the study group.

4. Participation in designing and verifying models describing the collected data, interpretation and description of results.

5. Preparation of reports and publications.

Requirements:

1) a doctoral degree in the discipline of linguistics or related, obtained in the year of employment in the project or in the period of 7 years before 1 January of the year of employment in the project. This period may be extended by the time spent on long-term (over 90 days) documented sickness or rehabilitation periods or by the number of months spent on leave related to the care and upbringing of children.

2) experience and knowledge in the field of research on speech development and articulation in children, language acquisition, phonetics and phonology of the Polish language; experience in the field of recording, describing and analyzing articulation data and speech signal is welcome, as well as previous contact with statistical modeling methods in linguistics.

3) scientific experience in conducting research in the discipline of linguistics or biomedical engineering or a related discipline, confirmed by co-authorship/authorship of peer-reviewed publications and presentations at scientific conferences;

4) knowledge of English in speech and writing, allowing for the preparation of scientific publications,

5) in the case of foreigners, fluent knowledge of Polish in speech and writing,

6) due to the duties in the project, necessary experience and predispositions to work with children, as well as meeting the legal requirements for working with children.

Application submission:

Please send an email to zuzanna.miodonska@polsl.pl with the following documents:

1. Curriculum vitae detailing scientific achievements, in particular a list of publications, research projects, professional experience, and other information relevant to the project. In the CV, please include a statement about your level of English and Polish and the clause "I consent to the processing of my personal data by the Silesian University of Technology to conduct recruitment for the position I have applied for."

2. Scan of the doctoral diploma.

3. Cover letter.

4. Opinion about the applicant prepared by the head of the research team, the supervisor of the doctoral thesis, or the head of the department/faculty/institute where the applicant works or worked.

5. Copies of the three most important publications (co-)authored by the person applying for employment (in the case of multi-authored works, a description of the applicant's contribution should be included).

If you have any questions concerning the project or employment, you are welcome to contact us by email at zuzanna.miodonska@polsl.pl.