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Dear Colleagues,
I would like to draw your attention to a postdoc vacancy in Cambridge on the MQ funded HOPEShttps://www.mqmentalhealth.org/news-blog/post/hopes-help-overcome-and-prevent-the-emergence-of-suicide-expert-qanda projecthttps://www.mqmentalhealth.org/research/profiles/help-overcome-and-predict-the-emergence-of-suicide.
The MQ HOPES role is a two year post available from May 2018. The candidate will be part of a large collaborative effort (The HOPES project) that aims to elucidate neurobiological mechanisms and behavioural phenotypes that underlie risk for STBs during adolescence, a critical period of development when STBs emerge. HOPES is a consortia of researchers across the world including Yale and Orygen (Melbourne), and is led by the University of Cambridge. The candidate will work together with researchers from those institutions to examine the neural underpinnings of adolescent suicide behaviour.
The candidate will investigate the neurobiological underpinnings of youth STBs (suicidal thoughts and behaviours). This will include pooling existing large, cross-sectional and longitudinal international neuroimaging datasets of youth with a range of psychiatric disorders to investigate a model that integrates brain structure and functioning as well as cognitive and social environmental factors to predict current and future STBs. The candidate will use multivariate statistics (such as Structural equation modelling) to do so.
Candidates should have a PhD or equivalent, in a related subject such as Neuroscience, Psychology, Psychiatry or otherwise relevant subject areas or be very close to completion/award of same prior to their appointment to the post. The funds for this post are available for two years in the first instance. The advert can be found herehttp://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/17288/
Very best, Anne-Laura van Harmelen av391@cam.ac.ukmailto:av391@cam.ac.uk
Dr Anne-Laura van Harmelen Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow Senior Research Associate Department of Psychiatry University of Cambridge
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