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Research Assistant – Psychology, Edinburgh

A full time research assistant post is available in the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology (CCACE) at the University of Edinburgh. This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious researcher to join a multi-centre research team working on a Medical Research Council-funded project which aims to understand sedentary behaviour in older people. The purpose of this job is to learn how sedentary behaviour in older people varies according to psychological, physical, social and environmental factors. The post-holder will work with data from the Lothian Birth Cohort of 1936. This is a full-time and fixed term post which is available ...

Postdoctoral Research Associate/Study Co-ordinator – Psychology, Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh is looking for a Study Co-ordinator of the internationally-renowned Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 (LBC1936). The successful applicant will have a PhD in psychology or a related biological or social science, and will be keen to obtain valuable project management experience as well as the opportunity to analyse data and write scientific papers. Good quantitative analysis skills are essential. The appointee will be line-managed by LBC1936 Study Director Professor Ian Deary, will co-ordinate the LBC1936 testing team, and will liaise with other investigators and the many collaborating groups and individuals who are involved in the ...

A wide-ranging interview with the late professor Nicholas Mackintosh, learning theorist, and distinguished contributor to IQ research

Professor Nicholas Mackintosh passed away in February of 2015. He is keenly missed. Among academics he was remembered by colleagues as, variously, a pioneer in associative learning theory, a wonderful head of department at Cambridge, and a leading promoter of calm and honest thinking about IQ. He was universally remembered as a decent, ebullient, and caring man. A generative human being, who made things better, both in his time, and for those who came after him. We are so pleased to have this enduring record of Professor Nicholas Mackintosh's Distinguished Contributor Interview! View it on Our You Tube Channel.

2014 ISIR lifetime achievement award winner: Ian Deary

2014 ISIR lifetime award winner Ian Deary also to be awarded the 2015 James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award for his lifetime contributions to the field of applied psychological science! Read more here, or come and hear his award address at the 27th APS Annual Convention, which will be held May 21–24 in New York City. (several other ISIR members will also be attending!).

Building strength since 1971: Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth

Fabulous writeup of the work of ISIR leaders Camilla Benbow and David Lubinski, building on pioneer (and distinguished interviewee) Julian Stanley. So, "How can we set up highly intelligent kids to become highly successful adults?" Read much more here on the Huffington Post.