University or Organization: Max Planck Insititute for Psycholinguistics
Web Address: https://www.mpi.nl/
Type of Work: 8
Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
Computational Linguistics
Neurolinguistics
Psycholinguistics
Text/Corpus Linguistics
Duration: 02-Sep-2024 to 28-Feb-2025
Voluntary
Internship Location: Nijmegen, Guelders, Netherlands
Minimum Education Level: 2

Description:
The Talent+ Internship is for motivated people whose future education and/or work opportunities are constrained by personal, financial, regional, or societal issues.

Successful applicants will come to the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) for a six-month paid internship that includes training in topics such as statistics, programming, and open science, lab tours of the various lab facilities at the MPI, and networking opportunities as well as practice with an experimental technique (e.g., behavioral testing, eye-tracking, EEG, wet-lab, motion tracking, VR). The internship is specifically aimed at people who wish to further pursue a career in academia.

The internship will be conducted in one of the following departments or research groups at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics: Language Development Department, Psychology of Language Department, Multimodal Language Department, Language and Genetics Department, LEADS Research Group, LaCNS Research Group, Imaging Genomics, The Communicative Brain.

Applicants should specify which department or research group they want their internship to be embedded in, and a suitable supervisor will be selected accordingly.

We will only accept applications through the application portal (find the link and further information here: https://www.mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/talent-6-month-internships).

For more information on the various departments, please consult our website: https://www.mpi.nl/research

About the program: Talent+ is a multifaceted training program providing cutting-edge research experience and training skills to talented people from under-represented backgrounds. It is specifically and carefully tailored to make them competitive for a career in Cognitive Science. Examples of under-represented groups include: people from the global south, people from historically ethnically or economically disadvantaged backgrounds, first generation college educated people, first generation immigrants, and people with disabilities. For more information, see: https://www.mpi.nl/dei/talent-program

Application Deadline: 15-May-2024

Web Address for Applications: https://www.mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/talent-6-month-internships
Application Instructions:
Please note that we only accept applications through the online portal that can be accessed through: https://www.mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/talent-6-month-internships

The 6-month internship scheme specifically addresses motivated researchers who have a BA or MA degree and would like pursue a PhD, but are constrained by personal, financial, regional, or societal issues that negatively affect their future education and/or work opportunities.

Positions are open to candidates who:
- Have a MA/MSc degree (or equivalent 6-year BA/BSc degree) but are not yet enrolled in a PhD program
- Have a background in a field relevant to the research conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistcs (e.g., linguistics, languages, psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, or any other related field)
- Have a good command of the English language
- Can express their motivation in terms of general motivation for research, specific motivation for the research conducted at the MPI, and academic initiative, among others.
- Have strong reasons why their access to highly funded institutions is constrained. In particular, we prioritize candidates who:
- Are unlikely to have accessed similar opportunities already
- Will benefit their future career in research based on the training we offer
- Are available for the entire duration of 6 months, starting in the first week of September 2024

Contact Information:
Izabela Jordanoska
Email: [email protected]