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Are you an aspiring researcher looking to start off your academic career well-prepared? As a Junior Lecturer/PhD Candidate, you will not only be contributing to fundamental scientific knowledge in the domain of psychology but also convey this knowledge to students in the Psychology programme. In this way, you will be able to obtain both your PhD and university teaching qualification as part of your position.
The School of Psychology and the Behavioural Science Institute (BSI) at Radboud University are looking for a Junior Lecturer/PhD Candidate to fill a position on antisocial and transgressive behaviour shared by the departments of Work and Organisational Psychology and Social and Cultural Psychology. As a Junior Lecturer/PhD Candidate you will have research duties (60%) and teaching duties (40%) for a 6-year period. The position will lead to a PhD degree and a university teaching qualification (BKO). We have similar openings for a Junior Lecturer/PhD Candidate in Methods and Statistics and in Developmental and Clinical Psychology (see the job advertisements on our website).
Your teaching will involve various activities in the Bachelor's and Master's programmes in Psychology, mostly related to 1) tutoring research-related work groups in the first year of the Bachelor's programme in Psychology, 2) supervision of third-year students during their Bachelor's degree research projects, which will align with your own PhD research, 3) supervision of Master's theses in the Master's degree specialisation in Work, Organisation and Health (WOH) and in the Master's degree specialisation in Behaviour Change (BC). Over the course of six years, you will gain a diverse range of teaching skills, including lecturing courses in both social and organisational psychology. This will enable you to obtain your university teaching qualification under the guidance of a mentor.
Given its shared nature, this Junior Lecturer/PhD Candidate position will be part of two BSI research programmes, namely Work, Health and Performance (WHP) and Behaviour Change and Well-being (BCW). You will be enrolled in the BSI Graduate School, which will support your research and research training. Because of the strong link between research and teaching in this position, your research topic should attract students so that you will be able to supervise Bachelor's and/or Master's thesis projects on your topic. Your research should contribute to the WHP mission to understand and promote healthy and safe work in a changing society and to the BCW mission to examine basic regulation processes underlying sustainable behaviour change and well-being. Your research should specifically focus on antisocial and transgressive behaviour in the workplace. This refers to actions that harm or lack consideration for others' well-being and that endanger psycho-social safety at work (e.g. harassment, bullying, abuse, or inappropriate or deviant behaviour). In your project, you should strive to develop novel conceptualisations, provide fresh empirical perspectives, and advance methodological approaches that can enrich our understanding of antisocial and transgressive behaviour. You will have freedom and independence to steer the project in the direction you find most suitable and interesting, as long as it stays within the topic of antisocial and transgressive behaviour. For instance, you may decide to study this topic through (but not limited to) one or more of the following questions:
Because this is a position shared by the two research programmes, we expect you to integrate perspectives and tools from both social and organisational psychology in order to promote collaborations between the two fields. To this end, you should be able to study short-term and/or long-term changes in antisocial and transgressive behaviour using a combination of state-of-the-art quantitative methods (e.g. surveys, lab-research and ESM) and potentially qualitative methods (e.g. focus groups and interviews), coupled with advanced statistical analyses and open sciences practices, to deliver high-quality scientific output with applied value.
Fixed-term contract: 6 years.
Strategically located in Europe, Radboud University is one of the leading academic communities in the Netherlands. A place with a personal touch, where top-flight education and research take place on a beautiful green campus, in modern buildings with state-of-art facilities. You will be embedded in the School of Psychology and the Behavioural Science Institute (BSI), both part of the Faculty of Social Sciences.
The School of Psychology currently offers excellent educational programmes to approximately 1,800 students. Each year, our Bachelor's programme welcomes approximately 500 new students. The Master's degree in Psychology has three specialisations that prepare students for an academic or professional career: Work, Organisation and Health; Behaviour Change; and Health Care Psychology. The School of Psychology offers two Research Master's programmes: Behavioural Science (in collaboration with the Behavioural Science Institute) and Cognitive Neuroscience (in collaboration with the Donders Institute for Cognition, Brain and Behaviour). We approach teaching as a team science endeavour and offer lecturers of the future training with a strong basis in both education and research. This Junior Lecturer/PhD Candidate position was created as part of this policy.
The Behavioural Science Institute (BSI) is a multidisciplinary research institute and one of the three research institutes of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Radboud University. Our researchers collaborate across the boundaries of psychology, educational science, and communication science. Our mission is to strengthen people through understanding the foundations of human behaviour, by creating synergy between different paradigms and by facilitating craftsmanship, curiosity and connection in scientific research. BSI has seven research programmes covering three major research themes: 1) development and learning, 2) health and mental health, and 3) social processes and communication. BSI conducts fundamental as well as applied/translational research and has excellent facilities and support for lab and field research.
The mission of BSI's Work, Health, and Performance (WHP) programme is to understand and promote healthy and safe work in a changing society through four interrelated research lines: (1) Psychology of fatigue (i.e. understanding the nature and consequences of mental fatigue, and exploring the role of mental fatigue in the context of work, exercise and social relationships), (2) Hybrid working (i.e. combining on-site and off-site work and sustainable well-being, e.g. in relation to work-life balance, remote leadership, equality/inequality and social inclusion), (3) Safety and moral behaviour (e.g. social responsibility in work environments), and (4) Sedentary work and physical activity (i.e. psychological processes that drive sedentary behaviour and physical activity). For more information, please refer to our WHP website.
The overarching goal of BSI's Behaviour Change and Well-Being (BCW) programme is to promote sustainable behaviour change and well-being through the examination of basic psychological and regulation processes, including inhibition and attention, agency, self-control and mindfulness, implicit and explicit evaluations, psychological defence mechanisms, and the role of sensory input (e.g. smell and touch) in human interaction. These lines of research seek to understand the effect of such fundamental processes on behaviour and well-being in various domains of daily life, including health, sustainability, food choices, prejudice, and social and romantic relationships. For more information, please refer to our BCW website.
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