JUSTICE: "Joining Unique Strategies Together For Interrogative Coercion Elimination" - A €10 million ERC grant awarded to investigate coercive and abusive interrogation practices.
The Principal Investigators are: Prof. Shane O’Mara (Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and Trinity’s School of Psychology), Prof. Yvonne Daly (Dublin City University), Prof. Dave Walsh (De Montfort University), and Dr Bennett Kleinberg (Tilburg University).
These posts will focus on the social and cognitive neuroscience of how groups come to accept, resist, or normalise coercive practices during investigative interviewing.
The work will involve: fNIRS hyperscanning deliberative groups and decision-making under pressure silence, dissent, conformity, responsibility diffusion, and status effects multimodal experiments combining neural, behavioural, physiological, and speech dataclose collaboration with AI/speech-analysis colleagues on conversational turning points
These are up to five-year positions, with excellent lab facilities, strong ERC support, and an exceptional international network.
We’re especially interested in hearing from candidates who are strongest in one area, but genuinely excited to work across several. This is not a narrow single-method role; it is an opportunity to help build a new research domain.
We are very interested in applicants with strong backgrounds in one or more of the following: social or cognitive neuroscience, fNIRS, EEG, or related neurophysiology and/or fMRI/MEG hyperscanning or group interaction research behavioural experiment design advanced statistics or signal processing speech, language, or multimodal data analysis moral cognition, social psychology, or decision science.
Applicants must have:
A PhD in neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, behavioural science, biomedical engineering, or a closely related discipline, a strong track record appropriate to career stage experience in one or more of the following: fNIRS, EEG, or related neurophysiological methods, social or cognitive neuroscience, experimental design in behavioural science, group interaction research, advanced statistical analysis or signal processing speech, language, or multimodal data analysis demonstrated capacity to work both independently and collaboratively.
If interested: Please email Prof. Shane O’Mara at smomara@tcd.ie
Applications via cover letter, full CV, statement of evolving research interests, three referee contact details, and any other information that the candidate deems relevant – all as a SINGLE pdf please.