Are you an interdisciplinary thinker with a degree in Neuroscience, Neurobiology or Philosophy of mind? Do you enjoy connecting the dots between the insights from different fields, but are you also aware of the challenges that come with combining disciplines? Do you find it valuable that interdisciplinary skills are taught to research master students? If so, this position as teacher in the course Special Topic in Cognitive Science may be for you.

You will teach classes of 20 multidisciplinary students from the research master Brain and Cognitive Sciences, in order to improve their interdisciplinary research skills. This means mentoring, guiding and coaching the students while they explore a topic in brain and cognitive sciences using a variety of perspectives. Tasks include teaching workgroups, assessing the on-going work of students, providing feedback and grading reports and presentations.

Ideally, you should have:

• a Master’s degree, ideally in Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Science or a related discipline;
• a background and interest in interdisciplinary education and thinking within this field;
• good didactic skills and (preferably) didactic experience;
• the ability to coach students through interdisciplinary group work;
• excellent organization and communication skills;
• fluent command of the English language;
• a proactive attitude;
• the ability to work independently as well as in a team with different personalities.

And you should be:

• adaptive while teaching workgroups;
• able to motivate and encourage students.

We offer a temporary contract for 6 hours per week, preferably starting at 15 July 2019 for the duration of 12 months. The salary, depending on relevant experience before the beginning of the employment contract, will be €2,709 to €4,274 (scale 10) gross per month, based on a fulltime  employment (38 hours a week), exclusive of 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus. A favorable tax agreement, the ‘30% ruling’, may apply to non-Dutch applicants. The Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities is applicable.

Are you curious about our extensive package of secondary employment benefits like our excellent opportunities for study and development? Take a look at Working at the Faculty of Science. 

University of Amsterdam

With over 5,000 employees, 30,000 students and a budget of more than 600 million euros, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is an intellectual hub within the Netherlands. Teaching and research at the UvA are conducted within seven faculties: Humanities, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Economics and Business, Law, Science, Medicine and Dentistry. Housed on four city campuses in or near the heart of Amsterdam, where disciplines come together and interact, the faculties have close links with thousands of researchers and hundreds of institutions at home and abroad. 

The UvA’s students and employees are independent thinkers, competent rebels who dare to question dogmas and aren’t satisfied with easy answers and standard solutions. To work at the UvA is to work in an independent, creative, innovative and international climate characterised by an open atmosphere and a genuine engagement with the city of Amsterdam and society.

Faculty of Science

The Faculty of Science has a student body of around 6,500, as well as 1,600 members of staff working in education, research or support services. Researchers and students at the Faculty of Science are fascinated by every aspect of how the world works, be it elementary particles, the birth of the universe or the functioning of the brain.

The research master Brain and Cognitive Sciences is an interdisciplinary programme, hosted by the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies. The programme aims to train a new generation of researchers that has deep expertise in a specific subfield of brain and cognitive sciences, but is also aware of and open to different approaches to study mind and brain. Brain and Cognitive Sciences connects researchers and students from disciplines that range from neurobiology to psychology, linguistics and philosophy.

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