Are you an aspiring researcher, looking to start your academic career off well-prepared? As a junior lecturer / PhD candidate, you will not only be contributing fundamental scientific knowledge in the domain of psychology, but also teach this knowledge to students in the psychology programme. This way, you will be able to obtain both your PhD and university teaching qualification in one position.

The School of Psychology and the Behavioural Science Institute (BSI) at Radboud University are looking for a Junior Lecturer/PhD candidate in Social Psychology. As a Junior Lecturer/PhD candidate you will have both teaching duties (40%) and research duties (60%) for a 6-year period. The position will ultimately lead to a PhD degree and university teaching qualification (BKO). We have similar openings for a Junior Lecturer/PhD Candidate in Work and Organisational Psychology, Developmental Psychology and Clinical Psychology (please see the relevant 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 programme in Psychology, 2) supervision of third-year students in their Bachelor’s degree research projects, which will align with your own PhD research, 3) supervision of Master’s theses in the Master’s specialisation in Behaviour Change (BC). Over the course of six years, you will gain a diverse range of teaching skills, including lecturing. This will enable you to obtain your university teaching qualification under the guidance of a mentor.

This Junior Lecturer/PhD Candidate position will be part of BSI’s social psychology research programme 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 relation between research and teaching in this position, your research topic should aim to inspire and trigger the interests of students so that you will be able to supervise their Bachelor’s and/or Master’s thesis projects on your topic.

Your research will contribute to the BCW mission to examine and understand basic social-psychological regulation processes that underlie behaviour change and well-being (see the BCW website for more detailed information). More specifically, the current research project will focus on the role of hedonic goal pursuit in the context of close (or romantic) relationships. Possible research questions could be how savouring positive relationship experiences may promote individual and relationship well-being, and what the role of regulatory processes (e.g. mindfulness, self-control) is in these experiences. However, these questions are still open, and at the start of the project you will need to further specify the research questions and research plan in collaboration with the supervision team, consisting of Dr. Daniela Becker and Prof. Johan Karremans.

• You hold a (Research) Master's degree in Psychology, Behavioural Science or equivalent.
• You have experience in teaching and research, and a strong motivation to excel in both.
• You have very good academic performance, as demonstrated by your grade transcripts and CV.
• You have very good writing skills, as evidenced by a writing sample, such as an excerpt from your Master's thesis or a (forthcoming or published) article or presented conference paper.
• You have good English teaching skills. As part of the selection process, you may be invited to a job interview in English. An ability to teach in Dutch would be an advantage.
• You are a proactive and enthusiastic team player.
• You have competence in project management, flexibility and proactive behaviour so that you will be able to finish your PhD thesis in time.

Fixed-term contract: six years.

• Employment for 1.0 FTE.
• The gross monthly salary amounts to a minimum of €2,836 and a maximum of €3,807 based on a 38-hour working week, depending on previous education and number of years of relevant work experience (salary scale 10, grade 0-7). The starting salary will be scale 10, grade 0 (€2,836) or scale 10, grade 1 (€2,968), based on qualifications and relevant experience.
• You will receive 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus.
• It concerns a temporary employment for six years.
• You will be able to use our Dual Career and Family Care Services. Our Dual Career and Family Care Officer can assist you with family-related support, help your partner or spouse prepare for the local labour market, provide customized support in their search for employment  and help your family settle in Nijmegen.
• Working for us means getting extra days off. In case of full-time employment, you can choose between 29 or 41 days of annual leave instead of the legally allotted 20.

Additional employment conditions Work and science require good employment practices. This is reflected in Radboud University's primary and secondary employment conditions. You can make arrangements for the best possible work-life balance with flexible working hours, various leave arrangements and working from home. You are also able to compose part of your employment conditions yourself, for example, exchange income for extra leave days and receive a reimbursement for your sports subscription. And of course, we offer a good pension plan. You are given plenty of room and responsibility to develop your talents and realise your ambitions. Therefore, we provide various training and development schemes.

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. The successful candidateYou 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 programme in Psychology has three specialisations that prepare students for an academic or professional career: Work, Organisation and Health; Behaviour Change; and Healthcare 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 is part of this policy.

The Behavioural Science Institute (BSI) is a multidisciplinary research institute and one of three research institutes in 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.