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The Ann S. Bowers Women’s Brain Health Initiative (WBHI) seeks a dynamic and collaborative leader to serve as Director of Community Partnerships and Participant Experience. This position will establish and lead a comprehensive strategy for community partnership, participant engagement, and public education across a multi-site women's brain health research network.
The Director will cultivate trusted relationships with participants, community organizations, healthcare providers, advocacy groups, and local stakeholders to ensure that research is informed by the voices and experiences of the communities it seeks to serve. Through community-engaged research practices, educational programming, and participant-centered initiatives, the Director will help advance equitable participation in scientific research while strengthening the public impact of the Initiative's discoveries.
The Lapate Laboratory within the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites applications for an open, full-time Junior Specialist position, with an anticipated start date of February 1, 2026 or later.
The laboratory is looking for an exceptional individual with particular emphasis in the areas of Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. Under the direction of Dr. Regina Lapate, the Lapate Laboratory seeks to understand the neural mechanisms underlying behaviors related to emotional processing and regulation using techniques including neuroimaging, EEG, and psychophysiological recordings (EMG, EDA). Ongoing projects include studies of the prefrontal organization of cognitive control in emotion, emotion-motor interactions, and temporal coding and memory during emotional processing.
The FOLK Lab (directed by Brandon Woo) and the Child Studies Lab (directed by Zoe Liberman) are seeking applications for an open, full-time position for a Junior Specialist at University of California, Santa Barbara.
The junior specialist will participate fully in developmental research regarding testing infants, toddlers, and children in behavioral experiments online and in person. They will report directly to the PIs, and they will be responsible for managing and overseeing the team of undergraduate research assistants, the lab spaces, the running of studies (in-person and online), the labs’ data, IRB protocols, and open science practices. Additionally, they will support literature reviews, study design, stimulus creation, participant recruitment, data collection and management, data analysis, presentations, paper writing, and grant writing. The position will include opportunities for developing independent research projects, learning new skills, and mentoring undergraduate research assistants. We hope that this position will prepare someone well for graduate studies.
The Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites applications for a pool of qualified lecturers (part-time) for anticipated openings throughout the year including Summer Session.
Screening of applicants is ongoing and will continue as needed. The number of positions varies from quarter to quarter, depending on the needs of the department. Terms and conditions of employment are subject to UC policy and any appropriate collective bargaining agreement. Salary is based on UC's salary scales.
