05.03.2025
Student research assistant (f/m/d, 40-80 hrs/month)
Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology
Bewerbungsfrist: 28.03.25
The Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology needs support for research projects in the area of psychology, cognitive science, education sciences, and educational neuroscience. A group working on motor metacognition investigates how (much) we represent and can explicitly report the way we move our body. In particular, we investigate the interplay between metacognitive ability and learning, in the motor domain. Therefore the Institute is hiring
a student research assistant (f/m/d)
in the scope of between 40-80 hours/month.
The position is to be filled as soon as possible and is initially limited for six months. A renewal of the contract is intended. We offer a diverse job in an environment dealing with central questions of current psychology, education sciences, and educational neuroscience research. There is an on-the-job training of necessary skills to perform the task (e.g., R or Unity, depending on the tasks).
Typical Tasks:
- Literature and database search on psychology, education, and educational neuroscience.
- Support to create study materials (including experimental programming).
- Recruiting volunteers for in-person experiments
- Collecting data, including motion capture and behavioural responses.
- Data cleaning and pre-processing using (using R).
Your Profile:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in psychology, educational science, computer science, social science, neuroscience, or similar
- Interest in research activities in psychology, education, and/or neuroscience.
- Ability to read research articles in psychology.
- Some experience in programming (data analysis and/or experimental programming)
- High degree of independence and problem-solving ability.
- English communication skills (all work will be communicated in English).
- Ability to work in a group.
If you are interested in working on this project, we look forward to receiving your written application (including cover letter, curriculum vitae, high school diploma, intermediate examination certificate or transcript of records) by email in a pdf document by March 28th, 2025 to elisa.filevich(at)uni-tuebingen.de. You can find more information about the project under metamotorlab.filevich.com.
The University of Tübingen supports qualified female students and therefore asks for your application. Severely disabled applicants will be given preferential consideration in case of equal suitability.
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