Hiring one PhD and one Postdoc for MICRO
I am happy to announce that I am recruiting one PhD fellow and one postdoctoral fellow for my new project MICRO - Human Bodily Micromotion in Music Perception and Interaction. A graphical overview of the project can be seen in the sketch below: Quick facts about the positions Application deadline: 31 August 2016 Start time: from January 2017 (negotiable) Appointment period: Phd: 3+1 years (last year conditional on completion of dissertation). Postdoc: 4 years (including 25% teaching/supervision) Salary: starting from NOK430 500 (PhD) and NOK483 400 (postdoc) **Aims of MICRO **How and why does music make us move? This has been a highly discussed topic in musicology and music psychology in recent years. Most of the research in the field has so far focused on fairly large-scale motion to music, such as dancing. This project will investigate how music influences what we may call micromotion, such as the tiny motion observed when people try to stand still. Even though such micromotion is barely visible, it can be measured in a motion capture laboratory. This makes it possible to carry out studies of the effects of music on micromotion. Results of the project will include: ...