Senior Research Officer, Department of Psychology

Department
We are seeking to appoint a full-time Postdoctoral Researcher for a three-year (or until 31 August 2029 at the latest) fixed-term post in the Department of Psychology at the University of Essex. The postholder will join the Leverhulme Trust-funded project , led by Professor Miroslav Sirota.

This ambitious, theory-driven project examines how people across countries judge whether antibiotics are needed and how these judgements are shaped under uncertainty. Using a signal-detection framework, it combines four large-scale cross-cultural online experiments in nationally representative samples across 10 countries with experimental tests of information designed to improve antibiotic-related judgements. The project will identify key mechanisms and generate evidence to support more accurate and sustainable antibiotic use.

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